Even Your Healthy Staples Can be Making You Sick: Yogurt & Peanut Butter

Chatting with friends this week two main topics came up. Low and Non Fat Options and Understanding Food Products vs Real Food. If you can pronounce it DON’T buy it. There are two examples that came up with friends this week that i wanted to share.

QUESTION: A friend asked “how much yogurt I would eat in the morning”, when she mentioned the brand I googled the ingredients

Strawberry Activia Lowfat Yogurt: Cultured Grade A Reduced Fat Milk, Cane Sugar, Water, Peaches, Modified Food Starch, Contains Less than 1% Of Milk Protein Concentrate, Kosher Gelatin, Natural Flavors, Agar Agar, Carrageenan, Annatto Extract And Black Carrot Juice (For?Color), Malic Acid, Sodium Citrate, Xanthan Gum, Vitamin D3.

My Answer: I eat yogurt all thru the day breakfast, in smoothies, with granola. Its eating clean that lets me eat more of it since I am not adding extra chemicals to my diet, it fill you and fuels you better. So its not the amount that I often worry about when it comes to yogurt its what I am eating. I add honey, preserves and even sugar to my plain yogurt. I’d rather eat clean food with sugar then chemicals.

Trader Joe’s Organic Plain Yogurt. Organic Whole Milk, Live Active Cultures: L Acidophilus, LBulgaricus, S.Thermophilus,Bifidus,Cultured After Pasteurization

Peanut Butter

Question: I know you eat a lot of peanut butter, what type do you use and how much do you eat each day?

Peanut Butter Product: hydrogenated vegetable oil, molasses, dextrose,

My Answer: There is two parts to my answer because another friend is transitioning from a peanut butter product to real peanut butter so she had sent me the labels. So here is my answer I can eat up to 3 jars or organic creamy peanut butter a WEEK yes a week. I eat it often in smoothies, with peanut butter granola, banana dipped in peanut butter. But I would NEVER eat the “product” they call peanut butter from the jar below. We need to Read LABELS always and choice with your wallet. I vote every day for the food I want to eat.

Organic Peanut Butter: Organic Peanuts, Sea Salt

My Conclusion: As we take this journey to a healthier lifestyle each day you need to question everything you eat. We are know that what we eat (diet ) is 80% of the problem at least that is how it works for me. I have learned to eat clean because I am truly afraid of the chemicals and as I took them out of my diet I leaned up, and feel so much better. A friend who got back on track this week said she is so happy to feel better again since she is back on the program after the holidays. Our Food Is Fuel and we vote with our wallets what we want to eat.