You can thank ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) of Decateur, IL for all that corn syrup. Check the ingredients of any soft drink - corn syrup. Basically, our drinks are full of Karo Syrup....
I would say completely avoiding sugar is impractical, although a nice goal. People that say they do this haven't read their ingredients in their food....
I read a book about all this that gave me my perspective. The book is written by Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet...
Dr. Norm - gGrocery store yogurt is suspicious to me. When saying avoid suggared yogurt, I am saying avoid grocery store yogurt. I picked up a Dannon yogurt recently, it had corn syrup and no mention...
The natural foods store yogurts are sweetened this way (fruit) or with maple syrup....
Just avoid the grocery store kind (Dannon, etc.) Get Nancy's, Brown Cow, Cascade or other low sweetened kind. I looked at Dannon - it's like the ingredients to ice cream and doesn't mention live...
I have mentioned in these posts over 20 times that the yogurt has to be from a natural foods store and not contain sugar (plain is best). Grocery store yogurt is junk food....
All bets are off for those who take antibiotics and pharmaceuticals. No food can cure th e damage these agents cause....
Why would you consider nuking H. Pylori with antibiotics when you can eliminate the bad effects of H. Pylori with the healthful probiotics (acidophilus, etc.) in yogurt. Antibiotics nuke all the...
I believe GERD is aggravated by sugar and other carbs. Carbs, especially sugar are a breeding ground for Candida, which creates an bacterial imbalance (too many bad guys) in the GI tract. I tried...
Any kind of yogurt will do. Just get it at a natural foods store, not grocery store. It must have live bacteria....
No I am in the US. It can be any brand of yogurt with live cultures. The stuff in grocery stores with corn syrup, etc. is to be avoided. Keifer, buttermilk, raw milk would also be good. It doesn't...
/community/emoticons/yeah.gif My doctor told me that my yogurt cure worked, because the beneficial bacteria in the yogurt counteracted the harmful Helio-bacter bacteria in my stomach causing GERD....
Eat yogurt from a health food store (Nancy's, Brown Cow, Cacade, Redwood Farms - NOT DANNON). Works 100% of the time and in minutes after eating. You might have to eat it almost every day for the...
Harper - it is in No. Calif. But, any good health food yogurt will do. You need acidophilus in some form or other....
Inder - I do not take Nexium. I was taking it when symptoms were present before I was eating yogurt. Acidophilus or good yogurt completely heals GERD. I eat anything I want. If I stop the yogurt, the...
See my post called 'What cured my GERD'. The meds are what are screwing you up....
/community/emoticons/yeah.gif first got GERD around Christmas, 2004. My wife had some Nexium around and I starting taking this. It seemed to work, but then the GERD came back. Tried Tums. Again,...