 There are a number of Speculations that you can go into is how might yogurt help either reduce weight or Keep people from becoming overweight, and I think both of those are possible based on the data that we have However, they haven't been proven But things that potentially that yogurt might do is it might make a person feel more full So they eat less at the next meal It might alter the gut bacteria and we know that the gut bacteria has a role and apparently and and affecting weight and also it affecting the Just a talk we heard today the short chain fatty acids Alan Blake was talking about that this morning If it results in increased short chain fatty acids because of the bacterial action on Nondigestible carbohydrates That could either Reduce appetite or more interestingly to me at least it could alter the amount of Energy expenditure. So if eating yogurt increases energy expenditure, there are some again See suggestive data when they're looking at people who are eating More yogurt versus less yogurt and they weigh less They're eating the same number of calories. So there's a suggestion that that yogurt might do that One other possibility of how yogurt may make people healthier Came from my 14 year old granddaughter when I was talking to her About the difference between correlation and causation for this talk actually I was telling her that okay, there are a number of these cross-sectional studies, but that doesn't prove And so we began to talk about it. How could yogurt perhaps Make people healthier and make them weigh less and she just said well If you're doing one thing that's healthy That may help you do other things that are healthy and I went wow, that's exactly right because people Have a picture of yogurt in their head yogurt is known as a health food People who are health nuts eat a lot of yogurt And so if you can you can be convinced to change your behavior to start eating a healthy food Just because you're periodically eating that makes you think oh well, I should go take a walk Or I should have some more fruit or I should have some more vegetables So the it there's a an association of healthier behavior And that's an interesting possibility of how yogurt might be associated with the with a healthier Status the big conclusion that I come to is we need more research particularly mechanistic research Randomize control trials, but the data there suggesting that this would be helpful And yogurt is is an easy Thing to get people to do