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ALTHOUGH MANY North
‘Americans are just discovering
_ yogurt. it is a food that has been
“known to man for over 4, 000
“years.

Its history goes so. far back that
“no one knows exuctl ly how it actual-

~ ly originated.’ Some. people: claim”
“that this cultured milk product dates .

» back to. the . beginning’ “of -the
Neolithic era; that it was discovered
* when man first learmed about milk-

“ing. According to this theory. some

milk was probably left outside for a
period of time in.a clay’ container,
which caused “it to ferment and
become yogurt... 0.

», Whether. yogurt was’ discovered

in an earthenware pot, or a goatskin
bag,. it soon became more than just ©
an ordinary food. The list of special .
“uses ‘for,.“and _ special - properties ..
attributed to yogurt, is quite lengthy.
Many. ancients hailed. yogurt ‘as. a:
*; miracle’ food and a’ cure-all. that
would cleanse the body. and purge ;

“the soul of evil spirits: .-.- ;

It was another secker of long life,
llya Metchinkoff, who’ gave’ yogurt
jts “*:. present-day

Fountain “of Youth, Metchinkoff
found that the Bulgarians in’ Russia
had ‘an unusually “high number. of
people in their population who lived -

Sover:100.. In studying. their -
Dietary habits, he. found: that: they +

consumed ‘about’7 Ibs.’ of yogurt a
day.’ He “concluded -that it was the

“consumption of yogurt that account”

‘ed for the unusually long life- “span of
‘the Bulgarians

“reputation.
“Metchinkoff. decided he wanted to -:
* live to be as old as he could, at least :
“until he was 100. In his search for a-

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NEWS ‘photo Brad Ledwidge :

0-TOOZ THE Energie Bar top ‘banana Terry Leeder and president
Gayle Hallgren sample some of the store’s yogurt concoctions.

Metchinkoff set about isolating”.
the bacteria in yogurt, which is what
“he thought the good health effects of
yogurt c came from, He believed that

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