The Fuming Fuji Says No to Yogurt!
The Fuming Fuji is outraged by the marketing of toxic food, especially when it’s aimed at the small fry. This week, the Fuming Fuji has decided to have a serious problem with yogurt.
But, Fuming Fuji, you ask, isn’t yogurt healthy in its wonderful bland creaminess?
The Fuming Fuji says no!
The claim: Yogurt is a great way to get a serving of dairy, which we all know is full of lovely calcium, protein, and vitamins.
The catch: Yogurt is a great way to get a serving of gelatinous goop, which is actually full of sugar, antibiotics, hormones, chemicals, dyes, artificial flavors, and probably pus.
The comeback: But Fuming Fuji, yogurt contains healthful cultures like acidophilus bifidus.
The conclusion: Yogurt still has as much sugar as a Coca-Cola. Yogurt makers do not have to prove how much of so-called beneficial bacteria is in actual product. You need a lot more than they include. You can get more culture from a Steven Seagal movie. Yogurt is glorified dessert.
The catchphrase: Yogurt? Nogurt!
Disclaimer: Mark Sisson and the Worker Bees do not necessarily endorse the views of the Fuming Fuji.
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Too late to comment? I hope not – I have been catching up on Flaming Fuji posts, and in general I couldn’t agree more.
And I basically agree with you here, too – 98% of the stuff marketed as yogurt is thinly disguised pudding, with all the high quality butterfat removed and replaced with sugar and worse. However, the really excellent full-fat unsweetened Greek yogurts on the market are wonderful food. I know the authors of this blog are not fans of dairy products, but my personal belief is that, for those who can tolerate milk products, butterfat is an excellent, healthy fat, and cultured dairy products are good sources of vitamin A, protein, B-vitamins, and minerals, as well as probiotics.
Whoops – Fuming Fuji, not Flaming Fuji. I humbly beg your pardon.
Granted and this is a one-sided spliff on yogurt. How about raw yogurt from grass-fed cows or wild-fed goats???