Danone North America welcomes the FDA’s announcement and saying The company said in a statement that it hopes the move will provide consumers with “simple, practical information they can use to lower their risk of developing type 2 diabetes.”
“The FDA appears to be completely unable to understand the nature of observational studies,” Mike Leen, a senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow School of Medicine, wrote in an email.
“Evidence suggests that people who cannot understand types; [2] Diabetics include people who consume yogurt two or three times a week. That doesn’t prove that the yogurt does anything. They eat less other things and are almost certainly less overweight. “We already know that avoiding weight gain is key to avoiding type 2 diabetes,” he said.
“Yogurt is a distraction, which is exactly what the food industry wants,” Leen added.
In previous “qualified health claims,” the FDA stated: approved A cranberry juice maker claims there is a link between consumption of certain cranberry products and a lower risk of recurrent urinary tract infections in healthy women.it consumes magnesium May reduce risk of high blood pressure.Eating macadamia nuts reduce Coronary heart disease risk.
But critics say this claim has less evidence than .Approved health claims” serves as “hopeful health advice.”
Approximately 38 million Americans have diabetes, more than 90% of whom have type 2 diabetes. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Diabetes was cited as the underlying cause of death for more than 103,000 people in 2021, making it the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. According to the American Diabetes Association.