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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robbity" data-source="post: 2312174" data-attributes="member: 93179">Why full fat Greek yoghurt?For me three main reasons:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I see no sane, logical reason to take a food that nature intended to be full of fat  and then remove this, having  to replace it with less nutritious "stuff" to make it palatable again.  I was  eating  real   yoghurt long before the reduced fat kind came along, and those early l versions I tried were just  an unpleasant watery  chalky mess, which absolutely convinced me to stay with  normal yoghurt....</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Genuine Greek yoghurt contains live/active cultures which offer some health benefits as [USER=85785]@Lamont D[/USER] has already mentioned.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fat's a sustainable source of energy that has the added bonus of not raising our (T2) glucose levels unlike the alternative short term energy from carbohydrates, so it's in my interest  to eat normal fat foods.   These also keep me satisfied for longer, meaning I eat  less, and as I'm able to burn off stored fat when I run out of dietary fuels, I'm more likely  to lose rather than gain weight.</li> </ul>As a sightly oxymoronic currently pre-diabetic T2,  I eat a low carb high (AKA normal full) fat diet specifically to manage my glucose levels rather than to lose weight, although by cutting right down on carbs my weight  loss (which was "ordered" by my GP) actually came about early on as an added bonus .  And a slight increase in fat consumption from LCHF has had very little impact on my cholesterol levels both with and without statins.  The only thing they ever did for me was to raise my glucose levels which I wasn't aware of when I was first prescribed them long before I had T2 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head    :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head    :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /> - and stopping them saw an almost immediate and additional 2mmol reduction that I'd not been able to achieve through my diet, due to those statins keeping them elevated.</blockquote>

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