P.S. on yogurts, probiotics...

[Guest guest]

Most of the yogurts (especially the fat free ones) have quite a few

other ingredients which folks might be allergic too, or might need

to avoid, like fruit sweetners, sugars (which could worsen a

candida overgrowth), and/or " modified " corn starch.

It might be best, although not tastiest, to get the plain yogurt. You

can put it in potato salad, or on a potato???

d.

[Guest guest]

You are quite right, d. The Yoplait yogurt I eat is sweetened with aspartame (nutrasweet), which the Wizard Doctor of CFS in North Carolina says is like opening your brain up and pouring in poison. And I respect his knowledge; I know he is right. I guess I would be better off switching to sugar-sweetned, but I just haven't done it. On anything else I sweeten myself, I use stevia, which I think is as harmless as non-sugar sweeteners get. I guess I could use the plain yogurt and add fruit and stevia.

See, you've done a good thing here, d. You've gotten me thinking, and that may get me off the nutrasweet. Thank you.

[infections] P.S. on yogurts, probiotics...

Most of the yogurts (especially the fat free ones) have quite a few other ingredients which folks might be allergic too, or might need to avoid, like fruit sweetners, sugars (which could worsen a candida overgrowth), and/or "modified" corn starch. It might be best, although not tastiest, to get the plain yogurt. You can put it in potato salad, or on a potato???d.

[Guest guest]

Yes, I do that. I love yogurt on baked potatoes. The problem is, I

don't eat them every day. :-) My kids LOVE the flavored yogurts, and I

was always hesitant because I thought they didn't have very much

nutritional value. I checked the various yogurt websites, and learned

that yogurt is made with pastuerized milk but the live and active

cultures survive that process, so I guess I'll have to rethink my

stand on the commercial yogurts, at least for the kids, and maybe

myself sometimes, too.

One thing that's good is plain, organic yogurt drizzled with just a

touch of organic honey. It may still be sugar, but honey's got some

good healing properties as well, and it has to be better than the over

sweetened pink stuff. :-) And I think yogurt's got a better chance of

actually colonizing your gut with good flora, than the supplements do.

The other thing that surprised me is that the Consumer Reports article

seemed to focus on the non-fat varieties as being the ones with the

live cultures. That's another thing I'd been sort of against, low fat

yogurts, thinking they weren't as " natural " . I am SO confused. :-)

I'm beginning to think that Woody got it right in Sleeper. Where

he predicts that the health food of the future will be twinkies and

other junk foods.

penny

> Most of the yogurts (especially the fat free ones) have quite a few

> other ingredients which folks might be allergic too, or might need

> to avoid, like fruit sweetners, sugars (which could worsen a

> candida overgrowth), and/or " modified " corn starch.

>

> It might be best, although not tastiest, to get the plain yogurt.

You

> can put it in potato salad, or on a potato???

>

> d.