I hate it when media ruins my favourite foods and turns them into diet foods. I love yogurth (real, creamy yogurth that is not light and doesn’t come in surreal flavours to substitute the flavours that come in, well, solid food) and I’ve just discovered how to add natural flavours to plain yogurth via Barefoot Contessa (OMG ANOTHER FATTIE WHO LIEKS TEH YOGURTHZ LOL). I do it because it’s yummy, and I eat it with my cereal. And with proper fruits. But everyone then thinks I’m on a diet. Everyone gets so confused when people eat fruits and veggies and yogurth because it pleases the palates and their bodies crave it. These ads don’t help. LEAVE YOGURTH ALONE! *smears her eyeliner*

That video is fucking great.

Count me in the camp of “real” yogurt eaters … I love plain, real yogurt with some berries and/or granola mixed in.

(BTW, I’ve admired your comments on other FA blogs. Just found your own blog today, and am glad for it!)

And yes: ‘healthy’ yoghurt is a different beast to real Greek or eastern or plain yoghurt – especially with fresh mango and plums cut up and mixed through it and just a drizzle of honey if it’s too tart.

(1) “by refusing to eat healthy foods”
Assumption: that shinobi doesn’t eat other foods of equal or greater “healthiness” as yogurt. I should probably add that this commentor assumes we’re working on the same definition of health, but I will give her benefit of the doubt and assume she meant “packed with nutrition” rather than “low on fats and calories”.
(2) “you reinforce the stereotype”
Assumption: that stereotyping is an effect of something the individual does, rather than a system of ideas imposed on the individual. i.e. the “it’s not a stereotype if it’s true” concept, or “it’s your own fault these stereotypes exist.” Here, I’ll help. (a) There exists a stereotype that fat peole don’t eat healthily. (b) TV shows and commercials that depict fat people consistently making unhealthful choices reinforce that stereotype. (c) Individual fat people making personal choices about food do not reinforce stereotypes. They are people making choices. The stereotypes are imposed by other people.
(3) “that Fat people are unattractive”
Wait now… what does attractiveness have to do with health again? I thought we were talking about nutrients!
(4) “because they are a bloated mockery of the human form.”
Aha, there it is. The hate in pure form, the motivation for posting. Well.
Assumption: that fat is a “mockery” of the human form.
Counterevidence: Venus of Willendorf. Any paintings by Ruben. Actually, most paintings from the Renaissance era – unless a female figure was suffering or dying, she was usually full-figured, with emphasis on the belly. Ancient Hindu paintings – round bellies, round arms, softness on both men and women. I could go on listing celebrations of large human bodies, but I think my point is made.

Concern trolls make deconstruction look easy.

That stuff in the commercials isn’t yogurt. One of the professors in my department recently released a book on probiotics, and while he was doing research for said book, he set a summer undergrad with the task of culturing out the bacteria in several different brands of yogurt to see if they were indeed what they claimed to be. The real yogurts were all fine and honest in their claims. The worst one tested was the one advertised as being “SO good” and that comes in all of those bizarre fake flavors (I won’t mention the brand name so as not to piss off the powers that be). Apparently the culture levels were way lower than claimed, and there were a few things in there that even the prof, a gut flora microbiologist, couldn’t identify. So my take is that this particular “yogurt” is the Twinkie of dairy products. Lots of fake stuff, not much of recognizable nutritional value.

(Just read Julia’s comment. I think I might drive to Windsor and bring back a bunch of Liberte yogurt. I want coconut-flavored real yogurt, too.)

Real thick fresh Greek/Mediterranean style yoghurt is glorious stuff. Especially made into carrot or beetroot dip, served with pide or pita chips. OK, i’m off to write a recipe post now.