The first time I ever read French Women Don’t Get Fat I fell in love with it. While at it’s core it is a weight-loss specific book, I just loved hearing first hand from a woman who was born in France, who loves America too, and found a way to marry the two worlds together. Mireille Guiliano shares the story of how she gained weight as a foreign exchange student in America, then figured out how to painlessly lose it all without sacrificing her pleasure in food.
One very short snippet in the book is about yogurt and how she’s been making her own homemade yogurt for years. She provides a recipe that requires a yogurt maker, and an alternate recipe for those of us who don’t want to make that investment. I just liked the story she shared about how she would eat goat’s milk yogurt in Greece with the freshest fruit and left the islands “floating in her clothes” but feeling incredibly pampered. Is that not the best advertisement of yogurt ever?!
I can’t pretend that I know a ton about gut health, but I do know that there are infinite studies out there about how probiotics found in yogurt are incredible at keeping us healthy.
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