One product to watch out for is yogurt.When it comes to being portrayed as healthy, yogurt is kind of like beef jerky. Many think beef jerky is super-low in calories, and a great source of protein; however, in reality it's filled with massive amounts of sodium and MSG, making it very unhealthy. Advertisers market yogurt as a quick, low-calorie, healthy snack, even labeling it with a seal that reads "Live and Active Cultures." This is meant to fool customers into believing that it provides a high level of healthy microorganisms, or probiotics.
The "Live and Active Cultures" seal is used only on products made by popular brands like General Mills or Groupe Danone. Interestingly, organic companies don't use this seal at all. Tests done by the Cornucopia Institute, an organic watchdog group that promotes family-scale farming, showed that many farmstead organic yogurt products without the "Live and Active Culture" seal actually contain higher amounts of probiotics than conventional yogurt. When you study the ingredients in "conventional" yogurt, you'll find that it's made from milk produced by a cow that's been confined to one space its whole life, pumped with antibiotics and hormones, and fed GMO grain. Ingredients can