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As long as it's not cow's milk yogurt, sure.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20389060/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23415826/

Also, the citations in the wikipedia article are hilariously biased.

> Presented at the satellite symposium “First Global Summit on the Health Effects of Yogurt." The conference was organized by the ASN, the Nutrition Society, Danone Institute International, and the Dairy Research Institute

Another paper was straight up one paid consultant writing an industry-funded article. Here's who edited and reviewed it:

> Editorial assistance was provided by Chill Pill Media LLP, which was contracted and funded by Danone Institute International.

It's hilarious how desperate the dairy industry is to cook science.

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Somehow I remain skeptical that the dairy (and meat) that humans have been eating for literally tens of thousands of years is causing depression and widespread health concerns. I think it's a wee bit more likely that when you're morbidly obese with diabetes, like in that study, and you feel better after eating a controlled, healthy, low-calorie diet, it can be attributed to factors more relevant than veganism.

> humans have been eating for literally tens of thousands of years is causing depression and widespread health concerns

They literally haven't eaten meat, dairy and eggs 3-5x per day. This is a new phenomenon in the last half-century. And to go back even further, our biochemistry is millions of years old, and is frugivorous in nature. We have no physical adaptations to eating meat. We only started doing it recently as a means of survival when humans left their tropical niche.

> a controlled, healthy, low-calorie diet

Plant-based foods are naturally low in fat, which is calorie dense, so such a diet is in fact ideal for weight loss.

> We have no physical adaptations to eating meat.

How curious that we are so perfectly able to digest it and thrive from it! I wonder why so many other herbivores didn't get so lucky.

> Plant-based foods are naturally low in fat, which is calorie dense, so such a diet is in fact ideal for weight loss.

Yes, of course a low calorie diet is ideal for weight loss. What does this have to do with cows milk yogurt? Are you an obese diabetic? If not, I don't see the relevance between your links and the avoidance of milk.

> How curious that we are so perfectly able to digest it and thrive from it! I wonder why so many other herbivores didn't get so lucky.

Humans can also eat and digest shirts, pencils and small pieces of plastic. And you didn't provide any evidence of any adaptations we have to meat eating. Check and mate.

We can't derive nutrition from wood or plastic. We derive excellent nutrition from meat, because we have the requisite enzymes. That is the adaptation.

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