Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts |
Decades ago, yogurt was a healthy food if you could stomach the dairy fats, but today, most yogurts are really just yogurt flavored pudding thanks to their extremely high refined sugar content. Most yogurt products are made with a shockingly large quantity of fruit-flavored liquid syrup.
And in the yogurts that are made without refined sugars, you'll usually get artificial chemical sweeteners such as aspartame or sucralose. As a result, you'll need to avoid virtually all flavored or sweetened yogurts. |
Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts |
A cup frozen raspberries, defrosted lA cup frozen blueberries, defrosted
2 tablespoons pecan or walnut pieces yogurt, preferably sugar- and fat-free Fage brand of Greek yogurt V2-I teaspoon ground cinnamon
Mix the fruit and nuts together with a spoon, add the yogurt, then the cinnamon. You can vary the ingredients with whatever happens to be in season.
Sample Two-Week Meal Plan
This menu plan is intended as a list of meal options, not a rigid diet plan. You can certainly switch meals around and make extensive use of leftovers to save time in preparing meals. |
David Steinman See book keywords and concepts |
Stonyfield is the largest organic yogurt producer in the world and the third largest yogurt brand in America. Over the last decade, Stonyfield has enjoyed the fastest compounded annual growth rate (24.3 percent) of any U.S. yogurt brand. The company has built a national reputation for its leadership in organics, natural nutrition, and corporate environmental responsibility and is the number one brand in the natural products segment.1 ^ www.stonyfield. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
REPPED: This is not a joke: there are ground up red beetles being used right now as a food coloring ingredient in yogurt, ice cream, juice drinks and many other grocery products. The ingredient is called "carmine."
Carmine is literally made from dried, ground-up red beetles, and its coloring (bright red) is used in yogurt, juice drinks, candies, and a long list of other products, including many "natural" products.
It's not that these red beetles are dangerous. Except for a few individuals who suffer severe allergic reactions to the beetles, most people do just fine eating carmine. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith See book keywords and concepts |
B and AB usually digest dairy better), and if the dairy is cultured, as in yogurt, or if the product is raw or pasteurized, since pasteurization makes dairy products more difficult to digest. This applies to milk and cheese. It is almost impossible to buy raw milk, unless you know someone who raises goats or cows. Raw cheese, however, is available in health food stores. Usually people can digest feta, cottage, and ricotta cheeses better than other cheeses. But again, much depends on other factors mentioned.
You can include butter and regular yogurt in small amounts? |
Lynne McTaggart See book keywords and concepts |
The live bacteria in yogurt displayed a reaction to the death of other types of bacteria, and yogurt even evidenced a desire to be "fed" with more of its own beneficial bacteria. Eggs registered a cry of alarm and then resignation when one of their number was dropped in boiling water. Plants appeared to react in real time to any break in continuity with the living beings in their environment. They even appeared to react at the moment when their caretakers, who were away from the office, decided to return. |
Michael Pollan See book keywords and concepts |
Sure, there's some yogurt in there, but there are also a dozen other things that aren't remotely yogurtlike, ingredients she would probably fail to recognize as foods of any kind, including high-fructose corn syrup, modified corn starch, kosher gelatin, carrageenan, tri-calcium phosphate, natural and artificial flavors, vitamins, and so forth. (And there's a whole other list of ingredients for the
"berry bubblegum bash" flavoring, containing everything but berries or bubblegum. |
Ann N. Martin See book keywords and concepts |
Plain, nonfat yogurt contains 450 mg. of calcium per cup. yogurt is easily digested by pets and will replace the good bacteria in their systems if they are on antibiotics. Cottage cheese contains 155 mg. per cup. One cup of low-fat milk provides 300 mg. Calcium can also be obtained from other natural sources: 3 ounces of canned salmon with the bone contains 180 mg. of calcium and 3 1/2 ounces of sardines with bones, 400 mg. Two tablespoons of whole sesame seeds contain 175 mg. of calcium. Many vegetables contain calcium although in lower levels than the foods mentioned above. |
Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts |
But don't worry: if you enjoy eating yogurt and would like to continue receiving the health benefits of consuming the live acidophilus cultures contained in many yogurt products, here's the perfect solution: purchase plain, unsweetened yogurt, and stir in your own protein powder and stevia extract powder. You can even mix in some crumbled freeze-dried strawberries or other fruits which are now available in many grocery stores.
Mix these ingredients together and enjoy! |
Steven V. Joyal See book keywords and concepts |
MODIFIED WALDORF SALAD
Serves 2
Vi cup low-fat plain yogurt
Vi teaspoon vanilla extract
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 red apple, cubed
Vi cup celery, diced
Vi cup grapes, halved
Vi cup raisins
Vi cup chopped walnuts
Lettuce
In a small bowl, mix together the yogurt, vanilla, salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Add the remaining ingredients except for the lettuce. Mix well and serve on lettuce leaves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
It depends on the person, but, for example, my father loves chia, and he eats it with yogurt. He puts two spoonfuls in the yogurt, shakes the yogurt and eats it. In my case I prefer it with lemonade or with orange juice in the morning. I love orange juice, and I put it into the orange juice and eat it wit the beverage. My wife uses it over a salad. There are people who love hamburgers – you know, "hamburger" is a bad word today -- and they like to spread it over the hamburger before cooking. They find a way.
Mike: Chia hamburgers.
Ayerza: Yes, it's funny but it's true. |
Lynne McTaggart See book keywords and concepts |
The live bacteria in yogurt displayed a reaction to the death of other types of bacteria, and yogurt even evidenced a desire to be "fed" with more of its own beneficial bacteria. Eggs registered a cry of alarm and then resignation when one of their number was dropped in boiling water. Plants appeared to react in real time to any break in continuity with the living beings in their environment. They even appeared to react at the moment when their caretakers, who were away from the office, decided to return. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Carmine is literally made from dried, ground-up red beetles, and its coloring (bright red) is used in yogurt, juice drinks, candies, and a long list of other products, including many "natural" products.
It's not that these red beetles are dangerous. Except for a few individuals who suffer severe allergic reactions to the beetles, most people do just fine eating carmine. Beetles are probably good for you, just like ants. High in protein, low in fat... you get the picture. |
Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts |
But don't worry: if you enjoy eating yogurt and would like to continue receiving the health benefits of consuming the live acidophilus cultures contained in many yogurt products, here's the perfect solution: purchase plain, unsweetened yogurt, and stir in your own protein powder and stevia extract powder. You can even mix in some crumbled freeze-dried strawberries or other fruits which are now available in many grocery stores.
Mix these ingredients together and enjoy! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Keep your eyes open for yogurt with a label that reads, "colored with all-natural, organic ground-up red beetles from Peru! |
Tanya Harter Pierce See book keywords and concepts |
However, since yogurt is not quite as high in sulphur-based proteins as cottage cheese is, one should triple the amount of yogurt used. In other words, use at least 1 tablespoon flaxseed oil to 3/4 cup yogurt.
For people who are allergic to dairy products, other sources of sulphur-based proteins may be used instead of cottage cheese or yogurt, though it may be difficult to achieve the optimum effect with other substitutions. One non-dairy substitution is tofu, but it is unclear as to the amount required. |
Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts |
We can "test drive a BMW for the cure," buy an iPod "Case for a Cause" and "save lids to save lives" with Yoplait yogurt — though you'd have to eat three yogurts a day for four months to raise $36 for the cause, points out the nonprofit group Breast Cancer Action on their "Think Before You Pink" website.11 The site urges consumers to ask critical questions about pink-ribbon products and promotions, such as: How much money goes to the cause? What is it supporting? What is the company doing to ensure its products don't contribute to breast cancer? |
Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts |
Selling science to the highest bidder: the dairy weight-loss scam
General Mills' Bell Institute has generated a number of noteworthy scientific "findings," including the claim that yogurt can contribute to weight loss. Not just any yogurt, of course, but Yoplait yogurt—which just happens to be a General Mills product. A corporate press release proudly explained that participants in an institute-administered study "who included Yoplait Light in their diets also lost 81 percent more fat in the stomach area, which is the most dangerous type of fat. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc. See book keywords and concepts |
The soy intervention component involved consumption of four servings daily (250 ml per serving) of either or both Soy milk or yogurt as part of the normal diet. After five weeks, the group switched to a dairy diet (or vice versa) that included four servings daily (250 ml per serving) of either or both low-fat dairy milk or yogurt. The 23 volunteers who completed the crossover trial were mildly hypercholesterolemic (total plasma cholesterol >5.5 mmol/1 and (or) mildly hypertensive
(blood pressure > 140/90 mm Hg) but not taking medication for either at study start. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Not exactly what you had in mind when you were eating yogurt, was it? The most appetizing part of this description has to be, "...the abdomens and fertilized eggs are separated from the rest of the anatomical parts..."
WHAT ARE THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF CARMINE?
The surprising answer is that, based on the health-enhancing properties of other pigmentation chemicals from the animal world (such as astaxanthin found in crustaceans and salmon -- it's 500 times stronger than vitamin E as an antioxidant), carmine may very well be good for you. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D. See book keywords and concepts |
This not only provides the characteristic sour taste of fermented dairy foods such as yogurt but acts as a preservative by lowering the food's pH and creating fewer opportunities for spoilage organisms to grow. Add these to your diet: yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, and kimchi (a Korean dish of pickled vegetables).
YOU Tip: Get Your Prebiotics. Probiotic bacteria are not normally found in the human intestine, so they often don't colonize well when they're introduced. Therefore, /vebiotic foods are vital to encourage probiotic organisms to survive and thrive in the human gut. |
Bill Sardi See book keywords and concepts |
European Urology 47: 288-96, 2005]
There are many misconceptions regarding probiotics, the most prevalent being that yogurt delivers beneficial bacteria. In fact, a study shows that yogurt does not confer any significant improvement in immunity in humans. [Nutrition & Cancer 37: 27-35, 2000]
Experts in probiotics emphasize that evidence for health benefits for one strain of probiotic cannot be conferred and extrapolated to other strains. [Clinical Microbiology Infection 11: 958-66, 2005]
Probiotics have not lived up to their promise, primarily because of poor quality products. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem See book keywords and concepts |
That's why many doctors recommend eating yogurt when taking antibiotics: the bacteria in yogurt are friendly—probiotic—and they can help to provide some of the digestive assistance and protection that is normally performed by the gut flora until they get back to normal levels.
Not all the bacteria who have made you their home are so friendly—right now, you may be providing a human roof over the metaphoric heads of Neisseria meningitidis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacteria that can cause, respectively, meningitis, toxic shock syndrome, and pneumonia. |
Elaine Magee See book keywords and concepts |
Aim to work in some low-fat dairy each day, whether it's with fat-free or low-fat milk, low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese, reduced-fat cheese, or a combination.
COMPARISON OF CHOLESTEROL AND SATURATED FAT IN DAIRY FOODS
DAIRY PRODUCTS
CALORIES
FAT (G)
SATURATED FAT (G)
CHOLESTEROL (MG)
Whole milk, 1 c
150
8.2
5.1
33
2% milk, 1 c
121
4.7
2.9
18
Fat-free milk, 1 c
85
0.4
0.2
4
Cheddar or Jack cheese, 1 oz
114
9.4
6
30
Reduced-fat Cheddar or Jack cheese, 1 oz
80
6
3
20
Cream cheese, 1 oz
99
9.9
6.2
31
Light cream cheese, 1 oz
62
4.4
3. |