During our trials, our conversations often take a turn towards weird topics.  Diets, mother-in-laws, bridesmaids’ dresses, childbirth and even gas problems! It came to my attention that there are some brides who may worry about similar things that I had worried about — such as “what if I had stomach problems on my wedding day?”

Of course, the solution to that is watching what you eat. I’ve been eating a lot more Lactaid and Activia because they are supposed to help you digest. I really liked what I heard about Activia yogurt, especially since it’s known for its “female-friendly staple to cure tummy woes.”

More about what Activia is supposed to do in order to help you digest here:

“Activia is the leader in the probiotics craze—a fad for microrganisms you can now find in a new Kashi cereal, “wellness” bars, a host of competing yogurts, and the “functional food” industry, products consumed not for traditional nutrition or pleasure but for presumed medicinal qualities. Probiotic yogurts recently have been alleged to ward off everything from hay fever to secondary infection. But an appeal to digestive health seems to be aimed specifically at women, of whom half report ailments of the midsection and nearly 100 percent, one can surmise, would prefer a slimming of the midsection. By targeting the female stomach, Activia sales topped $130 million in 2006, a very unusual success for a new food product’s first year. The following year, sales increased by 50 percent.* As a very funny video on Current TV puts it, open the refrigerator of any woman over 40, push aside that rotisserie chicken, and there you’ll see a tidy row of green plastic yogurt containers.

Those green containers are loaded with live organisms, called Bifidobacterium animalis in the microbiology world, that were renamed and trademarked Bifidus regularis by Dannon. Probiotics are what’s known as “beneficial bacteria,” which, if carried in the intestinal tract in significant amounts, are thought to ease some digestive concerns. Which concerns Dannon intends Activia to address are left intentionally vague. In their $100 million ad campaign, when Jamie Lee Curtis rubs her tummy and refers to occasional irregularity, you may think she’s just being polite. After all, nobody wants to be explicit about the specifics of waste elimination when pitching food.”