Jabberwocky Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Well is it? I just saw an ad for some kind of fat fighting, health giving yoghurt and it contains Biffidus acti-regularis! Helps your gut to process nosh and so promotes healthy farts or something. There used to be quite a few ads that had odd sounding products with bizarre sounding chemicals and additives, such as "Biffidus digestivus" and "Proleum AHAs"- in fact there were quite a few of them each with more obscure sounding miracle additives added to them. They died down for a while a few years ago because the advertisinf complaints comission put a stop to fake products that were designed to fool drunken people late at night to but their stuff, but they appear to be making a comeback.
foxforcefive Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 I went to bed a size 18, sleep-ate some of the above and woke up a svelte size 10, it does everthing it say's on the tin.
pattricia Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Yes, puts the good bugs back into your bowel.Its good after anti-biotics.
Jabberwocky Posted March 13, 2008 Author Posted March 13, 2008 My bowels are CRAWLING with bugs! Theres even a rat or two in there, so Im not sure if I need any bugs adding to them.
Clare85 Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Ha ha don't be sucked in by the media hype Jabbers. Save your money and buy a few figs.
littlebob Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 My bowels are CRAWLING with bugs! Theres even a rat or two in there, so Im not sure if I need any bugs adding to them. That will be the pork pie mate.
AGB1 Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Load of tosh! My mother-in-law swears by the stuff because the Daily Mail says its amazing - that fact alone is enough to make me not believe it. As far as I'm aware there is no hard evidence that all this guff actually works. But they have good advertising and funky songs and a lot of people seem to be taken in by it.
Marooned Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 It's cr@p, but it's "healthy cr@p". I say healthy in that it can help people suffering from infections such as Clostridium Difficile. I can't really see the benefit that anyone with a healthy digestive tract can gain from them though. "If it's working, don't mend it".
Jabberwocky Posted March 13, 2008 Author Posted March 13, 2008 Ha ha don't be sucked in by the media hype Jabbers. Save your money and buy a few figs. So youre telling me that Rectilitum promote-ABAs arent real? They sound pretty real to me. (After 10 pints of Stella)
medusa Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 I have no doubt that the bacterium is real, but the makers of this yoghurt are currently facing a huge court battle in the US because of the claims that they make about the bacterium's benefits that they cannot back up. Probiotic products have certain value for people who have impaired enteric commensil bacteria range and quantity as a result of illness, antibiotics or similar, but there is no proven benefit to anyone who is already healthy of taking any sort of probiotic or prebiotic product. On top of this the makers of this yoghurt cannot prove (or are not prepared to provide data showing) that the bacterium in question can pass through the digestive process and stomach acids in any useful quantity, or to quantify in a statistical sense the questionable and 'fuzzy' nature of the claims that are made for the product. All in all, if you like the yoghurt enough to pay the premium on the price it's your choice whether you buy it, but if the manufacturers could actually show data that supported most of its claims then they would have to licence the product as a medicine and market it as such.
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