Yogurt in Nutrition – 2nd Global Summit on the Health Effects of Yogurt

The proceedings of the 2nd Global Summit on the Health Effects of Yogurt, organized during the American Society for Nutrition Scientific Sessions at Experimental Biology 2014 in San Diego, USA, have been published as a supplement of Nutrition Reviews in August 2015. The publication gives an scientific synthesis of all the topics of this scientific international Summit.

• Introduction to the Second Global Summit on the Health Effects of Yogurt, Raanan Shamir and Sharon M. Donovan
• History of yogurt and current patterns of consumption, Mauro Fisberg and Rachel Machado
• Dairy products, yogurt consumption, and cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents, Luis A. Moreno, Silvia Bel-Serrat, Alba Santaliestra-Pası´as, and Gloria Bueno
• Association between consumption of dairy products and incident type 2 diabetes—insights from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer study, Nita G. Forouhi
• Impact of yogurt on appetite control, energy balance, and body composition, Angelo Tremblay, Caroline Doyon, and Marina Sanchez
• Microbiota and the gut–brain axis, John Bienenstock, Wolfgang Kunze, and Paul Forsythe
• Potential role of the intestinal microbiota in programming health and disease, Olivier Goulet
• Update on protein intake: importance of milk proteins for health status of the elderly,  Robert R. Wolfe
• Dairy in a sustainable diet: a question of balance, Toon van Hooijdonk and Kasper Hettinga

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