What are all the things you've heard or experienced yogurt curing?
By writersedge
@writersedge (22563)
United States
July 12, 2009 4:16am CST
I've heard that it can cure a yeast infection. Haven't tried it.
I've heard it can "reflora" (put healthy digestive bacteria into your gastro-intestinal system after anti-biotics). That I do after every time I finish taking anti-biotics. If I wait very long, I don't feel very well after I eat.
So what have you heard it cures and what have you tried?
4 responses
@bdugas (3577)
• United States
12 Jul 09
Yogurt is good for you, one 8 oz. cup of plain low fat yogurt provides around 400mg of calcium. The live bacteria in yogurt helps in digestion, and protects you from other harmful bacteria. It is high in protein, a good source of phosphorus, riboflavin-vitamin B2,and iodine. Yogurt is also a good source of Vitamin B12,pantothenic acid-B5, zinc and potassium. So you get a lot of vitamins when you eat it. Eating it on a daily basis could help you live longer and may fortify your immune system.
You have to look at the label and see how many calories come from sugar. But over all it appears to be the best thing you can do for your immune system, some times after we have been sick and on some medicines we need the yogurt to rebuild our digestive track and put us back on track from the medicine we have been taking.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
12 Jul 09
Nice job! Thank you very much. Esp. Iodine, lots in the news lately that Americans don't get enough. Take care.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
12 Jul 09
Hello writesedge, I have always heard that yogurt is good for your digestive system as it adds live bacteria to it. I eat Greek 2% fat yogurt every day with honey as it is a good calcium source as I don't like milk, and also has protein. Of course the main reason is that it tastes so good but I do believe it is a healthy start to the day. I haven't heard of it actually being used as a cure for anything which is unusual here as any staple Greek thing usually cures something, or has another basic use, according to the Greeks. As I haven't heard them extolling it's usage for anything than good health I think that must be it.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
12 Jul 09
Well, if a person has good diet and exercise, that promotes health and you might not need cures if you are doing well in those two areas. Maybe yogurt is preventing or curing something that Greeks don't know about because Greeks eat yogurt all the time, so they don't have non-yogurt problems. If that makes any sense. Thanks and take care.
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
16 Jul 09
well, my roomie had a roomie who asked her boyfriend to buy her yogurt to cure a yeast infection - don't know if it did, but she didn't tell him to get plain yogurt so he got raspberry, and she couldn't figure out what those hard little things were... well, she was totally blind after all.....
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
17 Jul 09
Wow!
I wish more things had braille on them, esp. money.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I had heard of people putting it you know where, the plain without sugar, so good thing she didn't try that!
He didn't tell her what kind, people forget to tell blind people things and it must get to be trying, tiring, and frustrating for them after a while.
Thanks and take care.
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
12 Jul 09
Hi, Edge!
This was recommended by a doctor back in the 1960s, and I've eaten yogurt just about every day since then. I double up if a yeast infection seems to be starting up, and it almost always works. After bladder cancer, yeast infections are really common, and I think the yogurt is the reason I seldom have to worry about it. I think it's also the reason I almost never have any sort of digestive trouble in spite of having to take insane amounts of medication every day.
Besides, it's delicious! I also use it in place of cream, sour cream, and creme freche in cooking.
