Letters to the Editor
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Total waste of $$$= Activia yogurt etc
Functional foods" like Activia yogurt aren't selling by the cases because they are low-fat. That's so 20th century. They are being hyped for how they "maintain digestive health
Actually, recent studies (read about them in 'Financial Times' aboiut three months ago) have shown this is all blown up malarkey. Activia confers NO significant benefit according to this research and people are wasting their money - like they are for bottled water. Neither is the yogurt any help.
My wife had c.diff. a year ago and all the yogurt anc acidophilus she took didn't make a dime's worth of difference. When they finally took her off the antibiotic flagyl and put her onto vancomycin, it did.
From there she proceeded to eat regularly.
Americans have got to stop being suckers for all this fad crappola, and that includes the dozens of pharma snake oil products they imbibe as well, much of which is now ending up in our drinking water!