Here's #3...Yogurt!
"WHAT???? I thought yogurt was a great source of healthy
bacteria?!"
Well, while that can be true, most of the time it's not because the
vast majority of yogurts are either full of sugar or artificial sweeteners that
feed the bad bacteria and kill the good bacteria in your gut. Yikes!!!!
Okay, let's go through the details. Yogurt is a GREAT choice; just make sure there are no added sweeteners...whether it's sugar,
sucralose, saccharine, or aspartame. These sweeteners will cancel out any and
ALL positive effects of yogurt by wreaking more havoc on your gut bacteria
before the "good stuff" in yogurt even has a chance to go to work.
For instance, my kids really like Yoplait® yogurt...the original has 26 grams of sugar in a 6oz container. The Yoplait light? Only 10 grams of sugar, but then you read aspartame on the label, along with red & blue food dye. The Yoplait Simplait has only six ingredients, but 24 grams of sugar. So what about the Yoplait Greek? Only 9 grams of sugar but they use Sucralose as their sweetener. Now I'm not just picking on Yoplait - I actually really like their yogurt but I'm really working on finding a better choice. The various brands of Greek yogurts out there are good...just read the label so you know what you are getting. One of our favorite Greek yogurts is Chobani, however, the flavored ones do have a lot of sugar at 17-20 grams. Not terrible, but my suggestion would be to choose the plain which has 7 grams of sugar, and sweeten it a little with Truvia® & fresh berries.
Now,
those are three of the WORST foods for your gut, but how would you like to know
ten of the absolute BEST? Unlike the gut-damaging foods above, over the next few days I will share with you 10
foods help to restore a healthy bacterial balance in your belly by killing off
the bad bacteria while at the same time giving you loads more of the vitally
important, beneficial bacteria that is so critical to both your health and fat
loss goals.
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