Did you know that quite a few yogurts are flat out bad news for your waistline?
“Light” yogurts, for instance, may not be the best buy, 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 when trying to maintain your diet. 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.
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 and diet goals.
What about “fat free” yogurts?
Well, hopefully we all know and understand by now that not all fat is 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.
So does that mean you should be avoiding all yogurts?
No, in fact there’s ONE type of yogurt that I would like to recommend you 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 pick for a mid-meal snack. But remember any yogurt you choose always read the labels first that way you know exactly what you are eating.
