The Flavored Yogurt

Flavored yogurt is widely positioned as a health food.

It sits in the dairy aisle with marketing copy highlighting active cultures and calcium. The fifteen grams of added sugar per cup are easily disregarded as part of a balanced breakfast.

But eating one daily for thirty-five years compounds to four hundred and twenty-two pounds of added sugar.

The liver and insulin pathways process the cargo in silence. The physiological load registers slowly, decades after the habit began.

Plain yogurt four days a week, not flavored. 241 pounds of sugar avoided.

The breakfast felt like active nutrition. The liver registered it as sweetener.