probiotic yogurts

[jkelly24]

Are these probiotic yogurts beneficial or are they just a waste of money. Love to know your opinions.

[sqad617]

Beneficial? to you.....waste of money
Beneficial? to the company...fantastic benefit.
What do you want probitic yogurts to do for your health?
Medical evidence of beneft is scanty at best and absent at worse.

[beejaybee]

Considering they`re supposed to be "healthy drinks" they`re full of liquid sugar. We take probiotic in tablet form.

[LoftyLottie]

Just to back up beejaybe, go to any good health shop and buy probiotics in tablet form. GP's are now recommending probiotics after taking antibiotics or having stomach upsets. If you are healthy they are of dubious advantage.

The probiotic drinks are a much more expensive way of getting the benefit (and as squad says, full of sugar)

[annie0000]

My son used to suffer from a lot of tummy upsets as a toddler - we then started giving him these and they stopped - it may be co-incidence, but I think that it did help him, as for the sugar, it may have given him a bit of an energy boost when he wasn't well and least it isn't aspartame. When he is older, I would consider the capsules.

[LoftyLottie]

Good point Annie. Sugar isn't all bad!

[Jenga]

I would say they are a rip off. I woudn't buy them myself.

[Ethel]

I wouldn't buy them either. If you are healthy, eat a balanced diet and varied diet you don't need supplements of any kind.

[coke71]

I live a fairly healthy life, healthy well balanced diet but still enjoy a couple of vodkas and a curry on a night out and was fine until last year when i started getting all symptoms for IBS. I was very bloated and sometimes in a bit of pain so I started taking yakult and have got to say within a week all symptoms disappeared. don't know if it was the prebiotic or just coincidence but if a couple of quid a week makes me feel better i say it's well worth it.

[LoftyLottie]

My doctor recommended probiotics after my IBS returned after a long course of antibiotics. He said either the drinks or the tablets were fine (the tablets have to be kept in the fridge). I trust my doctor implicitly. He has years of experience and is very knowledgeable and open to new ideas, and part of a large medical practice.

As I said before, If you are generally healthy then I doubt if you need them, but I agree with coke1.

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/33 5/7610/80

[LoftyLottie]

Sorry Coke71