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Originally Posted by jinx
Not to be argumentative (as I sit here and argue with you  ) but lactose is sugar. It's not refined or added, but neither is fructose (from fruit).
JMO, YMMV, I'm not a doctor, I don't play one on TV, I don't even like them....
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When you buy bacteria it will say on the bottle something like "1billion microorganisms per X at time of manufacture guaranteed". I have no idea how much is in any particular yogurt or how to decide whether it's being cancelled out, so to speak, by the sugar content. |
Just consulting with my chemist husband... he thinks that there is a possibility that yeast would not be able metabolize lactose in the same way that it could metabolize fructose or sucrose... so that could be why it is recommended as a remedy for yeast infections.
I'm going to investigate this further because if it is improper, then the good folks at Cosmo, Shape, Health, Reader's digest, Cooking Light and Seventeen need to get their facts straight
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