Milking it: The many nutritional benefits of kefir

JULIE Smolyansky starts every day with a glass of kefir, but then she would as her parents were one of the first people to bring the fermented dairy drink from their native Ukraine to the US in 1986.

It fell to Julie, however, to bring Lifeway kefir to Ireland, she told Feelgood during a visit here last month. When her father Michael died suddenly of a heart attack in 2002 she found herself at the helm of a large company at age 27.