Activia yogurt by Dannon is advertised on television with Jamie Lee Curtis stating it helps you regulate your digestive system.  The active ingredient called Bifidus Regularis is supposed to help people with slow intestines digest better when the product is eaten daily for 2 weeks.  It is recommended to do this together with a nutritionally balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.

Bifidus Regularis contained in Activia yogurt is a natural probiotic culture.  It is described as friendly bacteria to your digestive system that will regulate your intestinal transit time.  The result will be maintaining a balance of the good bacteria that should naturally reside in your digestive system, almost as good as an herbal colon cleansing, but it’s really more of a maintenance thing, because it’s eaten every day, but yet doesn’t have the same colon cleansing properties that provide that initial “clean” feeling.
Factors that can throw off this balance are age, diet, hormonal changes and stress levels.  Within our human digestive tract, there are billions of bacteria termed intestinal microflora.  Within the colon, there can be as many as 500 species of bacteria and one of them is the bifidobacteria that is available in Activia.
This is why the scientists at Dannon selected the Bifidus Regularis as it survived passage in the digestive tract to the colon and stayed a living culture.  Dannon scientists have been studying the health benefits of probiotic foods for 20 years and have worked in partnerships with independent laboratories.
A probiotic is, by definition, a microorganism that when given in recommended amounts, give the host health benefits.  Scientific studies are increasingly supporting the claims that dairy foods containing live cultures have healthy beneficial properties.
Bifidus Regularis found in Activia is a true probiotic that is safe to eat, remains alive for the shelf life of the product and is in a high enough quantity to provide health benefits.
Activia yogurt comes in 6 different flavors to make it a tasty addition to incorporate into a healthy balanced diet.
 

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