Yogurt is a health food right? Well at least that’s what the advertisements proclaim. Not so fast there Dairy Council! Add enough sugar to that milky goodness and it quickly moves from the lunch menu to the dessert menu.

Many of those little yogurt cups have as many grams of “sugar” (usually high fructose corn syrup) as a can of pop! Around 30-50 grams of sugar! If it claims “light” or states less on the nutrition label but tastes super sweet, then it is likely that they’ve added some sort of sugar substitute (aspartame and sucralose are the most common). I’ve even come across puddings with less sugar than yogurt!

Ahhh, turkey, the centerpiece of the American Thanksgiving feast. Each year we give thanks for the many blessings that we have received throughout the year. And each year millions of us celebrate our thanks by consuming just as much turkey as we can stuff down our gullets before falling into a tryptophan induced coma!