Yogurt

Brown_Eyed_Girl

Hi Guys can someone advise me what is the best (healthiest) type of yogurt to eat, bearing in mind that I really dont like yogurt but am trying to force myself to eat some .........

SystemError

That would probably be natural yoghurt. There arent that many people that like it so youre not alone. You could stick some honey or fruit in it to make it taste better.

cold_filter

Brown_Eyed_Girl wrote:

Hi Guys can someone advise me what is the best (healthiest) type of yogurt to eat, bearing in mind that I really dont like yogurt but am trying to force myself to eat some .........

Try yops... yes yops, i have 2 every morning and maybe 1 when i get home from work, they dont have all these healthy bacteria things in them but they taste great and there's no lumps of fruit in them either

Brown_Eyed_Girl

cold_filter wrote:

Try yops... yes yops, i have 2 every morning and maybe 1 when i get home from work, they dont have all these healthy bacteria things in them but they taste great and there's no lumps of fruit in them either

Wouldnt they be full of sugar tho ??????

SystemError

Brown_Eyed_Girl wrote:

Wouldnt they be full of sugar tho ??????

yes

stick with natural organic yoghurt. its the only one without additives AFAIK...

g'em

Brown_Eyed_Girl wrote:

Wouldnt they be full of sugar tho ??????

yup, ingredients list includes: Milk (1.5% fat), Sugar, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Flavourings, Milk Calcium Complex, Colours: E122, E151; Yogurt Cultures.

So sugar is the second largest ingredient by volume, and syrup the third, as well as artificical colourings. Complete muck.

BEG, live natural yoghurt is the "healthiest" of all the yoghurts. Many of the low-fat ones will actually be high in sugar and additives, whereas natural yoghurt should be just that - nothing but yoghurt. Fruit and honey are perfect to add to it to sweeten it up, or mix some oats into it if you want a more substantial snack.

Transform

old mac donalds is best by ages

rubadub

why are you forcing yourself to eat it? What specifically do you think you till get out of it? there may be another alternative.

Sounds like the old, healthy food must taste nasty, bad food tastes nice sort of idea, like people suffering eating raw eggs instead of cooking them, or guys doing push-ups on their knuckles...

davyjose

rubadub wrote:

why are you forcing yourself to eat it? What specifically do you think you till get out of it? there may be another alternative.

Sounds like the old, healthy food must taste nasty, bad food tastes nice sort of idea, like people suffering eating raw eggs instead of cooking them, or guys doing push-ups on their knuckles...

Exactly, was just about to post the same thing. If you don't like something, don't eat it. Unless you are super picky, you will always find an alternative. It's not like Yoghurt is the perfect food anyway.

g'em

davyjose wrote:

It's not like Yoghurt is the perfect food anyway.

no, but it's pretty damn great. A few studies have shown that higher intake of calcium aids fat loss. In our current climate more and more people are reducing their dairy intake for fear f its high fat content. But a decrease in calcium intake has knock-on effects for fat storage: it's been shown that calcium deficiency leads to increases in parathyroid hormone production. When you increase parathyroid hormone, you increase your propensity to transport calcium ions into fat cells, resulting in greater production of the enzyme Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS). This creates a biochemical environment where fat storage is more likely and the potential for the breakdown of fat as fuel is reduced.

Studies in which the participants consumed two cups of low-fat yoghurt to their diet, increasing their calcium intake to mroe than double that of the control gourp (whose Ca intake was similar to that of the "average" American) they lost significantly mroe fat over the period of a eyar than those in the control.

- Zemel, M.B. et al. Dairy (yogurt) augments fat loss and reduces central adiposity during energy restriction in obese subjects. FASEB 2003; 17, 5: A1088.
- Zemel, M.B. Mechanisms of Dairy Modulation of Adiposity J. Nutr., 2003; 133(1): 252S - 256.

It's not that Ca is a magic supplement or anything, more that it's very important in a fat-loss diet (if that's your goal). Yoghurt is a lovely, convenient, tasty way of getting it.

davyjose

Well put but my point is that the OP can find other ways to increase their Calcium intake (low-fat milk, which is also high in CLA). Or any nutrient that a food supplies - there are other ways around it.
I think when people force themselves to eat good foods that they dislike, they are more likely to quit and go back to a poor diet.

rubadub

I saw some studies on calcium too. It was also on a BBC2 program and they were measuring the fat content of peoples faeces, not pretty!
Seems it passes through unabsorbed, BUT it only was from dairy calcium. I see yoplait are now selling little mini tubs of calcium rich "dairy product", says weight loss on it, but doesnt explain what is happening, (hmmm wonder why?)

So if the only reason the OP was taking yoghurt was for calcium these may be an alternative.

I think when people force themselves to eat good foods that they dislike, they are more likely to quit and go back to a poor diet.

Thats what I was getting at too, you dont want people force feeding themselves food they find disgusting to fit into a suit/dress for a wedding in 8 weeks, and then go back eating the same crap after all that, glad that their "diet" is over.
Everybody should be able to find healthy food they like to eat, forever.

g'em

rubadub wrote:

Everybody should be able to find healthy food they like to eat, forever.

Oh I agree, I think I'm just shocked at the notion that someone could think yoghurt doesn't taste good- it's divine!! I'd happily eat one of the big hyoooge pots every day if I had my way... yoghurt with fruit, yoghurt and oats, yoghurt in smoothies.... mmmm.... (Glenisk Organic yoghurt ftw btw!! )

Brown_Eyed_Girl

Right guys my reason behind wanting to try and eat the yogurt is firstly to increase my calcium intake and secondly I thought that it would be an ideal snack when trying to lower the carbs instead of say an oatcake.

But you do have a point if I dont like it I will hardly find it easy to stick with it, although I did hear that you could very easily acquire a taste for it so this is what I was hoping.............. BUT I have come up with an alternative which perhaps you could give me your views on

Take a cup of skimmed milk and add a teaspoon of vanila extract and gently heat add a leaf of gelatine and a scoop of vanila whey and chill .............. absolutely delicious served with fruit

So have a got something completely wrong here and is this delicious snack too good to be true ????????