Low Fat/Diet Yoghurts
Can anyone recommend a low fat/diet yoghurt that doesn't contain artificial sweeteners or aspartame (apart from natural plain yoghurt)
I'm not too sure that aspartame is good to eat as there is so much bad publicity surrounding it.
Does anyone know of a good one
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Hi Janet
i just go for good old natural plain boringyoghurt, a spoonful of natural fruit sugarie fructose and a handful of berries or nuts. Then i use little tuppaware pots (I think they are designed for herbs) and do myself a few little helping to take with me to work!
Totally easy peasy and much less hassle than reading labels forEVER in the supermarket!
Ax x
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It's just when you want something on the run and don't have the time to prepare anything - I've stood ages mulling over labels and feel the assistants must think I'm weird!
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I would agree that artificial sweetners aren't a good idea and probably a health disaster in the making, but they still need to do a bit of catching up to sugars.
Sugars seem tomore readily put on weight than fats, as odd as that might seem.
Full fat milkis only 3% fat!
You'll see so many 'so called' low fat products as being less than 5 % or even 10% fat. As fat content is so tied in to taste, then what happens is that when you reduce the fat - you reduce the taste. To get the taste back - manufacturers either add sugar or artificial sweetners. Doh!
But hey! - it sells - and that's the name of the game.
There'sgood reason to believe that a fat content lower than3% isn't suficient to trigger the gall bladderto release bile to break it down. Also, yoghurt is best live (other than the taste there's little reason for it) and when flavoured, even by natural fruits & nuts, it seems that the natural yeasts & moulds found on themcompete with the supportive bacteria.
UK food labelling standards are particularly poor when it comes to yoghurt - there was even a C4 programme that set out to prove what slop could be marketed for kids under the guise of yoghurt.
In short, for maximum benefit - yoghurt should be eaten 'live' & ideally made from organic milk. For this it needs to be unadulterated with anything and eaten as soon after made as poss. It's very easy to make yourself and after a few days the bacteria start dyingoff in the masses, cos they've eaten all their food - lactose.
I guess I'm saying that I would look elsewhere to cut down on fats & sugars.
Andrew.
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Thanks for that - I'm not happy to really eat sweeteners or aspartame. I love natural and live yoghurt but when I eat these I get really bad joint and muscle pain and a feeling of coldness and that is wh I presume I am having a die-off reaction. I thought if I could find a good low fat yoghurt that doesn't contain the sweeteners that this would be an alternative for me to try.
Why would yoghurt do this to me?
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I wrote a Reply, but it got ate by the system.
Have replied to your other Thread here -
The short version is that the reaction your getting from the yoghurt won't be due to die off, but a reaction to the yoghurt or most likely one of it's constituents.
Could be;
[ul][*]Casein - milk protein[*]Lactic acid - most likely if reaction occurs quite soon after ingesting. Those suseptible to allergies/candida are prone to acidity.[*]Calcium is second of most likley suspects. The NAET view is that those that react to more complex substances usually have underlying problems with certain basic nutrients that need to be cleared first. Obviously avoiding calcium containing products is not a sensible option.[/ul]
Andrew.
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Thanks for that.
What happened was last year I started eating live natural yoghurt as I have always enjoyed it but after a week or so I noticed I was getting a sort of detox from it - my weight dropped and it stopped the bloating in the tummy (which was good), made me go to the loo a lot but gave me palpitations. The palpitations stopped but then I got the muscle and joint pain so attributed it to the yoghurt so stopped eating it. But everytime I tried any yoghurt I got the same reaction. Someone said it was a die-off reaction.
However anything I've taken since then like peppermint oil, antiobiotics (for a strep throat) and even a Vitamin ACD supplement has either given me muscle or joint pain or a feeling of tremendous coldness which is absolutely horrible.
I've just last week done a York test to see if that will show anything. Vega testing which I'm not sure is reliable said I was dairy and wheat sensitive but a previous York test proved negative on these.
However I am greatly concerned as to getting calcium into my diet and wonder would a calcium supplement have a similar response as yoghurt or do you think I would be OK taking this.
The Dr. on Friday said that I was at high risk of getting osteoporitis which has scared me a bit and said that I will need to go for a bone density test soon.
Just wish I could take something that doesn't give me these awful side effects.
The Dr. didn't prescribe any antifungals - I only took the yoghurt because I love it especially with fruit mixed in and the peppermint oil was taken to stop tummy bloat. I did this on my own. I just feel now I am better taking literally nothing!
Any advice you can give me is greatly appreciated
I'm not too sure that aspartame is good to eat as there is so much bad publicity surrounding it.
Does anyone know of a good one
Answers:
Hi Janet
i just go for good old natural plain boringyoghurt, a spoonful of natural fruit sugarie fructose and a handful of berries or nuts. Then i use little tuppaware pots (I think they are designed for herbs) and do myself a few little helping to take with me to work!
Totally easy peasy and much less hassle than reading labels forEVER in the supermarket!
Ax x
Answers:
It's just when you want something on the run and don't have the time to prepare anything - I've stood ages mulling over labels and feel the assistants must think I'm weird!
Answers:
I would agree that artificial sweetners aren't a good idea and probably a health disaster in the making, but they still need to do a bit of catching up to sugars.
Sugars seem tomore readily put on weight than fats, as odd as that might seem.
Full fat milkis only 3% fat!
You'll see so many 'so called' low fat products as being less than 5 % or even 10% fat. As fat content is so tied in to taste, then what happens is that when you reduce the fat - you reduce the taste. To get the taste back - manufacturers either add sugar or artificial sweetners. Doh!
But hey! - it sells - and that's the name of the game.
There'sgood reason to believe that a fat content lower than3% isn't suficient to trigger the gall bladderto release bile to break it down. Also, yoghurt is best live (other than the taste there's little reason for it) and when flavoured, even by natural fruits & nuts, it seems that the natural yeasts & moulds found on themcompete with the supportive bacteria.
UK food labelling standards are particularly poor when it comes to yoghurt - there was even a C4 programme that set out to prove what slop could be marketed for kids under the guise of yoghurt.
In short, for maximum benefit - yoghurt should be eaten 'live' & ideally made from organic milk. For this it needs to be unadulterated with anything and eaten as soon after made as poss. It's very easy to make yourself and after a few days the bacteria start dyingoff in the masses, cos they've eaten all their food - lactose.
I guess I'm saying that I would look elsewhere to cut down on fats & sugars.
Andrew.
Answers:
Thanks for that - I'm not happy to really eat sweeteners or aspartame. I love natural and live yoghurt but when I eat these I get really bad joint and muscle pain and a feeling of coldness and that is wh I presume I am having a die-off reaction. I thought if I could find a good low fat yoghurt that doesn't contain the sweeteners that this would be an alternative for me to try.
Why would yoghurt do this to me?
Answers:
I wrote a Reply, but it got ate by the system.
Have replied to your other Thread here -
The short version is that the reaction your getting from the yoghurt won't be due to die off, but a reaction to the yoghurt or most likely one of it's constituents.
Could be;
[ul][*]Casein - milk protein[*]Lactic acid - most likely if reaction occurs quite soon after ingesting. Those suseptible to allergies/candida are prone to acidity.[*]Calcium is second of most likley suspects. The NAET view is that those that react to more complex substances usually have underlying problems with certain basic nutrients that need to be cleared first. Obviously avoiding calcium containing products is not a sensible option.[/ul]
Andrew.
Answers:
Thanks for that.
What happened was last year I started eating live natural yoghurt as I have always enjoyed it but after a week or so I noticed I was getting a sort of detox from it - my weight dropped and it stopped the bloating in the tummy (which was good), made me go to the loo a lot but gave me palpitations. The palpitations stopped but then I got the muscle and joint pain so attributed it to the yoghurt so stopped eating it. But everytime I tried any yoghurt I got the same reaction. Someone said it was a die-off reaction.
However anything I've taken since then like peppermint oil, antiobiotics (for a strep throat) and even a Vitamin ACD supplement has either given me muscle or joint pain or a feeling of tremendous coldness which is absolutely horrible.
I've just last week done a York test to see if that will show anything. Vega testing which I'm not sure is reliable said I was dairy and wheat sensitive but a previous York test proved negative on these.
However I am greatly concerned as to getting calcium into my diet and wonder would a calcium supplement have a similar response as yoghurt or do you think I would be OK taking this.
The Dr. on Friday said that I was at high risk of getting osteoporitis which has scared me a bit and said that I will need to go for a bone density test soon.
Just wish I could take something that doesn't give me these awful side effects.
The Dr. didn't prescribe any antifungals - I only took the yoghurt because I love it especially with fruit mixed in and the peppermint oil was taken to stop tummy bloat. I did this on my own. I just feel now I am better taking literally nothing!
Any advice you can give me is greatly appreciated