
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 1, 1992                   TAG: 9203010072
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: MELVILLE, N.Y.                                LENGTH: Short

YOGURT FIGHTS YEAST INFECTION, STUDY SHOWS

Eating a cup of yogurt a day will keep vaginal yeast infections away, say scientists who have just completed the first controlled experiment that validates one of folk medicine's favorite treatments.

A group of doctors at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York studied 13 women for a year. For six months, the women ate 8 ounces of yogurt a day, and for another six months skipped the yogurt. They were tested for levels of colonizing yeast and infection throughout the study. Scientists found the women averaged 0.3 infections while taking yogurt compared to 2.5 infections when yogurt was not part of their diet. - Newsday

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