The Only Yogurt You Should Eat
Did you know that almost ALL yogurts are flat out bad news for your waistline?
"Light" yogurts, for instance, are absolutely terrible for you, and for more reasons that one.
First, most "light" yogurts are loaded with artificial sweeteners and/or high fructose corn syrup.
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is one of the top 3 WORST ingredients you could ever consume. First, as it's name suggests, it's made of primarily fructose, a sugar that easily spills over to fat storage when consumed in sizable quantities.
And artificial sweeteners are...well...artificial. Do you really want to put chemically altered, man-made ingredients that don't exist in nature into your body? Us either.
Second, HFCS is made from genetically modified corn.
Third, HFCS spikes blood sugar and insulin like almost no other food or ingredient.
Bad news all around. Bottom line, just because something is low calorie (i.e. "Light") doesn't make it a healthy choice, or even a choice that will positively affect your fat loss goals. What about "fat free" yogurts? Well, hopefully we all know and understand by now that fat isn't bad. Fat is a critical nutrient to both your health and your fat loss efforts and actually helps to naturally stabilize many important hormones in your body that play a key role in optimizing your body's fat-burning environment. Secondly, most fat-free yogurts are LOADED with sugar. Here's a plan: Let's get rid of the naturally occurring healthy fats and load up on sugar instead! Sounds like a plan to us...a really bad one. So does that mean you should be avoiding all yogurts? No, in fact there's ONE type of yogurt you can use as part of your fat-burning diet...and that's Organic Plain Greek Yogurt.
First, Greek yogurt has double the protein of regular yogurt, so you get more protein punch in every spoonful. Second, by choosing the plain variety you avoid all the extra, unnecessary, artificial ingredients along with calorie-boosting excess sugar. Lastly, by going organic you'll avoid the hormones and antibiotics that are otherwise generally injected in the typical cow. Greek Yogurt is my #1 pick for mid-meal snack and I enjoy a serving of Greek yogurt just about every day. If you want to add flavor buy fresh or frozen berries or Honey. When picking honey be careful it’s pure. When adding berries or honey remember that both are good for you, but both have calories so go sparingly. Here are some of the reasons I eat Greek yogurt; the active ingredients help build the immune system, it’s a great source of protein, It’s a filling snack for mid-morning and mid-afternoon. When you cut back on your food intake it’s easy to lose grams of protein. Not good. You will lose muscle tone which can cause skin to sag. Each yogurt cup will contain 9 or 10 grams of protein. and yogurt contains probiotics. You need probiotic to keep your stomach working properly and getting probiotics in the food you eat is much better than supplements.
Bad news all around. Bottom line, just because something is low calorie (i.e. "Light") doesn't make it a healthy choice, or even a choice that will positively affect your fat loss goals. What about "fat free" yogurts? Well, hopefully we all know and understand by now that fat isn't bad. Fat is a critical nutrient to both your health and your fat loss efforts and actually helps to naturally stabilize many important hormones in your body that play a key role in optimizing your body's fat-burning environment. Secondly, most fat-free yogurts are LOADED with sugar. Here's a plan: Let's get rid of the naturally occurring healthy fats and load up on sugar instead! Sounds like a plan to us...a really bad one. So does that mean you should be avoiding all yogurts? No, in fact there's ONE type of yogurt you can use as part of your fat-burning diet...and that's Organic Plain Greek Yogurt.
First, Greek yogurt has double the protein of regular yogurt, so you get more protein punch in every spoonful. Second, by choosing the plain variety you avoid all the extra, unnecessary, artificial ingredients along with calorie-boosting excess sugar. Lastly, by going organic you'll avoid the hormones and antibiotics that are otherwise generally injected in the typical cow. Greek Yogurt is my #1 pick for mid-meal snack and I enjoy a serving of Greek yogurt just about every day. If you want to add flavor buy fresh or frozen berries or Honey. When picking honey be careful it’s pure. When adding berries or honey remember that both are good for you, but both have calories so go sparingly. Here are some of the reasons I eat Greek yogurt; the active ingredients help build the immune system, it’s a great source of protein, It’s a filling snack for mid-morning and mid-afternoon. When you cut back on your food intake it’s easy to lose grams of protein. Not good. You will lose muscle tone which can cause skin to sag. Each yogurt cup will contain 9 or 10 grams of protein. and yogurt contains probiotics. You need probiotic to keep your stomach working properly and getting probiotics in the food you eat is much better than supplements.
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