How comes many people reccomend fat free yogurt while trying to loose weight?

what is the best low fat and LOW SUGAR yogurt?
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Any one you like, none make you loose weight, but they can all be included in a healthy balanced diet which, accompanied by regular exercise will help weight loss.Without wishing to seem impolite Type ' weight loss ' into the search for questions box and you will see the answers to the 20 questions like yours that clutter ' Answers ' every day, together with their standard answers.Type in ' Answers swamped with weight loss questions!?' and see what regular contributors think.
I will cut and paste my stock answer, however it is interesting to see how close this is ( I have been using it for over 2 months), to a recent paper from University of California. They did a meta-analysis of all the work on weight loss over the past few years. ( summary) It showed that 2/3 of people who diet yo-yo to a higher weight, none of the faddy diets of diet pills work and that rapid weight loss doubles heart attack risk!They seemed to suggest the only hope was modest calorie reduction + EXERCISE.This is a news report of the article:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/...I have to admit I have a 'stock' answer for this question, since if you look it appears 20-30 times every day!Type 'guaranteed weight loss' into google, you will find 1 1/2 million sites!Look around you if ANY of these things worked would we be getting so overweight?We are what we eat, but we are at least as much what we don't do. Calorie intakes in 1900 and 1950 were higher than they are now, we just don't use them up!Eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg.Take a healthy amount of exercise 30-40 minutes of vigorous exercise per day 4-5 days a week. I hate to think what percentage of the UK population does that 2%? 5%?I have seen hundreds of questions with this same pattern :- I am fat, tell me where on line I can get this super diet or herbal/dangerous/illegal drug that I hear will fix it for me in 10 minutes without the need for me to get off the couch!No fixes pal , less in more out, its the only way.

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Mostly because most people are uneducated regarding nutrition. They think that less fat intake means less fat on the body, but that isn't true. Whole milk yogurt is best, perhaps Yo Baby, since it has less sugar in it but no artificial sweeteners that are bad for your health.

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I have never heard of anything special about fat free yogurt when wanting to lose weight. As product companies change wherever you live I would imagine if you were looking for a good one just go to your local grocery store and find an organic 0% or 1% natural (plain) yogurt. Now on it's own the taste will be very bland so many people use plain yogurt as a base for other things like smooties, on cereal with fresh fruit, etc. I would think eating sensibly to incorporate all the food groups into your daily diet in moderation and exercise is the best way to lose weight.

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Hi this is because its low in fat and is fills you up so you wont need to eat more.
I think the best low fat yoghurts are weight watchers ones, as most of them are only half a point which is good ewven when you are not counting points. But the only thing with these they arent prebiotic to really your not getting good bacteria so I tend to go for the BIO Yogurts, these are fat free and come in flavours in big tubs so you can scoop out what you want, when you want and do your self some good. I like the natural one it takes a while to get use to the taste, but I love it on shreddies, Also them lasting satisfactions ones are nice too.
I would recommend fromage fraise though as they are the fwattyesy yoghurts, also when you get them muller youghurts that are low fat, they only tell you the nutrisional value per 100gs and there is 200g per pot so your actually gettting more calories that you think, not much more, but when I was on weight watchers a standardsized low fat yoghurt is like half a point up to one and a half points, but when you get a muller yougurt you get loads so it like 2 youghurts in one equalling 2-3 points. and of course they go up the more flavour you get, like the apple pie ones and the dessert ones are more calorise and fat but not much.

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Home made is the best.

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i was told that fat free means more sugar? stay away from the yogart eat fruit instead ..

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