The Claim

Yogurt and cheese intake is not associated with all-cause or cause-specific mortality in Japanese males and females.

Source: Association between dairy intake and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a pooled analysis of 0.4 million Japanese adults from 10 population-based cohort studies.

What the research says

Supports is higher

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Supports
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Challenges
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Correlation
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In plain English

Eating yogurt and cheese does not change the risk of dying from any cause in Japanese men and women.

See the scientific wording

Yogurt and cheese intake showed no association with all-cause or cause-specific mortality in Japanese males or females, based on pooled data from 10 cohort studies.

Why this might work

Eating yogurt and cheese does not change how the body processes energy, controls inflammation, or repairs damage, so it does not make people live longer or shorter.

Verified mechanismbased on 1 study

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: Association between dairy intake and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a pooled analysis of 0.4 million Japanese adults from 10 population-based cohort studies.

    The study looked at thousands of Japanese adults over many years and found that eating yogurt or cheese didn’t make people more or less likely to die from any cause, including heart disease or cancer. So, eating these foods doesn’t seem to affect how long people live.

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