Credit to Mark's Daily Apple for this very entertaining and informative post.
Yogurt for some reason has become what most people consider healthy. How a tub of processed sugar was ever labeled "healthy" is beyond me. Touted for its ability to help your digestive track, provide vitamins and minerals, and give you needed probiotics how did we ever survive without it!?
Pretty simple actually, we ate real whole foods which have all the positives without the drawback of this highly processed sugar cup. Here is a small snip from Mark.
"It’s nonsense, people. Probiotics are indeed healthy and helpful members of any digestive system, and consuming them in supplement or fermented food form is a good move with many potential benefits, but wasting your money on fortified processed food (food should never require “fortification”) and its obscene packaging and advertising campaign is silly. Those probiotic-enchanced sugary yogurts are stripped of their natural bacteria via pasteurization. Even the “natural” full-fat yogurts, however delicious they are and whatever other benefits they confer, are usually pasteurized with probiotic cultures added afterward. There’s nothing magical about Yoplait or Dannon."
So ditch the processed sugar cups people! And start eating the way we were designed to eat.