Drinking Yogurts - Good Or Bad?

Drinking yogurts - good or bad?

It is difficult to imagine a person who would refuse to improve his health not with daily training and tempering, not with expensive trips to resorts, but with the help of a single jar of a miracle drug. This method is easier, cheaper and more enjoyable. This is exactly what the producers of drinking yoghurt use in their advertising, promising to improve the physical condition of the body, strengthen the immune system and make the figure almost perfect in just a few weeks. To make the jars more effective, numerous stamps adorn the jars: "Approved by WHO", "Recommended by the world society …" (cardiologists, nutritionists, immunologists, etc.), images of flasks, test tubes and microscopes reinforce the impression made on a common customer.

What is the difference between miraculous drinking yoghurts and ordinary cottage cheese or kefir, to which it is easy to add fruits or berries to taste? As the label says, they contain special groups of lacto- and bifidobacteria, which are supposedly necessary for the normal functioning of the immune system. However, if we approach this issue from a purely medical point of view, then such a statement is simply ridiculous: after all, immunity is a complex name for an entire system consisting of more than 500 processes, at least half of which are still an unsolved mystery for modern science. Therefore, it is impossible to imagine a drug that would really effectively stimulate this as yet unexplored mechanism. Bifidobacteria found in drinking yoghurts,really necessary for the body with dysbiosis - with an unhealthy diet or after taking antibiotics. In a healthy body, they already exist in the necessary proportions as an integral part of the intestinal flora, and for the treatment of dysbiosis there are medications that are much more effective and safe for the body.

After reading the label, any sane person will think: what is this yogurt that contains pieces or juice of fruit and can be stored for more than a month? (And after all, many drinking yoghurts that "increase immunity" have a shelf life of more than six months!) Of course, without a powerful preservative, such a product will literally turn sour within a day, not to mention the fact that the bacteria contained there will begin to multiply actively and their number will exceed all valid limits. So, drinking yoghurts contain the most modern preservative E1442, which, according to many practicing doctors, can cause pancreatic necrosis - a rather dangerous disease of the pancreas. In essence, this substance (hydroxypropyl dichloro phosphate) is a huge molecule extracted from cornstarch. In addition to the fact that such starch, as a rule,made from genetically modified corn, it slowly affects the pancreas, impairing its activity and contributing to the development of serious diseases.

To gain great popularity among buyers, drinking yogurt should not only have a pleasant taste, but also be much more attractive than the usual dairy products - kefir, cottage cheese, yogurt. That is why such products contain a large amount of sugar, which, if consumed in high quantities, can lead to edema and obesity, as well as diseases of the teeth and oral cavity. Each new type of yoghurt is determined not by the content of fruits or juices, but by the flavor, which is not only unhealthy, but can be harmful to the body, in addition, many "berry" drinks contain sodium citrate (E331), which increases the acidity of the mouth and stomach …

But for all that, yoghurts contain beneficial strains of bacteria! However, if you think about it, lactobacilli are found in any lactic acid product: kefir or fermented baked milk, without them these drinks simply could not form! But in addition to lactobacilli, kefir contains no less useful fungi, and there are more than two dozen microorganisms necessary for human health in it. However, kefir is stored for no more than three days, otherwise further unwanted fermentation begins in it, and many organisms simply die. The same thing happens in drinking yoghurts: lactobacilli and bifidobacteria disappear after a few weeks, leaving only flavors and stabilizers identical to natural ones for human health.

For a sane buyer, there can be no doubts: the benefits of drinking yoghurts are just a marketing ploy of manufacturers who are not at all interested in the health and normal nutrition of their customers. Most often, the inhabitants, having seen the numerous inscriptions "Approved by the Union of Specialists …", forget about any doubts about this product, but you should carefully read the label in order to raise a big question about the benefits of the contents of such a "miracle jar".

Author: Maria Lev (specially for Calorizator.ru)

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