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Must I Follow the Candida Diet to Get Rid of My Candida?
The first food to be reduced as much as possible in the Candida diet is sugar. The good news is that if you follow the Candida diet whilst undergoing treatment to eliminate the yeast infection, you can eliminate the Candida from your body. The bad news is, if you continue to enjoy a diet rich in sugar, refined carbohydrates and yeasts, you will never rid yourself of Candida. However many anti-fungals you throw at Candida, if you are feeding it at the same time with the foods on which it thrives, it will remain. With just a little adaptation to your eating habits you can follow the Candida diet making little sacrifice and soon you will be feeling so much better, and enjoying much higher levels of energy. You will also find your food cravings simply go and you will want to eat what your body needs.
Sugar feeds Candida and you will need to virtually eliminate this from your diet if you want to be Candida-free and stop sugar cravings. The Candida diet requires you avoid all sugars, including fructose, honey, molasses, syrups, carbonated drinks, and artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners feed Candida, cause sugar cravings, are detrimental for diabetics, and are implicated in serious auto-immune diseases including cancer. These need to be eliminated completely i.e. no diet Cokes. Natural sweeteners you can use that do not cause sugar cravings and are beneficial to your health are FOS, which feeds the good bacteria, and Stevia, a natural plant-derived sweetener. Hidden sugars to watch out for are sucrose, fructose, maltose, lactose, glycogen, glucose, mannitol, sorbitol, galactose, monosaccharides, and polysaccharides. Stress plus a high sugar diet just invite Candida to grow. Once you have had Candida you will always be susceptible to yeast overgrowth and you will need to keep sugars to a minimum for the rest of your life if you wish to remain Candida-free. If you absolutely must have some chocolate, make it good quality chocolate such as Green & Black’s organic 70% dark chocolate (a small bar!) or Lindt dark chocolate - I suggest no more than twice a week.
Your Candida diet must keep low in yeasts, the food Candida favours in second place, which you find in pizzas, bread (except soda bread), beers, bitters and lagers etc, wines, stock cubes (buy yeast free), vinegars (use lemon juice for salad dressings), tofu, miso, mouldy cheeses, mushrooms, and marmite.
Refined carbohydrates and gluten-rich foods take third position in the Candida food preference list and need to figure infrequently in the Candida diet. Refined carbohydrates are found in bread, biscuits, cakes, pizzas, white rice, white pasta, and potatoes without their skins. I suggest you have these foods no more than 3 times a week. You can substitute white rice with brown Basmati rice, and white bread with organic wholewheat bread. Soda bread has the advantage of containing no yeast. Sprouted wheat / rye bread is also a good alternative. You can make your own wheat-free muesli from organic jumbo oats, nuts, a selection of dried fruit and coconut flakes or good health food stores such as Fresh & Wild and Planet Organic stock good wheat-free, oat-based mueslis i.e. Pruett or Pertwood Farm. I suggest you add 1 – 2 tbsp oat bran and a tablespoon of linseeds for extra roughage. Avoid sugar-rich mueslis, Oat Crunch breakfast cereals and all cereals containing sugar. In the UK Tescos and Trufree (available fro health-food stores) make a wonderful gluten-free pasta that tastes just like wheat pasta. The best bread if you have no rye intolerance is Rossisky, a yeast-free rye bread available from good Healthfood shops and Waitrose supermarkets. Keeping wheat low in your Candida diet will speed the departure of your yeast infection. If you want to sweeten your cereal use Stevia, FOS or fresh fruit. .
To fill yourself up on the Candida diet I suggest increasing proteins such as eggs, meats, fish and low carbohydrate vegetables.
The food group that takes fourth position in the Candida diet and needs reducing is cow’s dairy products, which contain lactose, which feeds yeast infections. You need to reduce cow’s milk, cheeses, and yoghurts. A little milk in tea and coffee is fine, but avoid large quantities on breakfast muesli and in drinks. Milk can cause terrible wind and just substituting with goat’s or cheese milks, soya milks, or rice dream can put an end to this. Goat’s and sheep’s cheeses, feta, and buffalo mozzarella are fine.
The Candida diet does not allow for large quantities of alcohol, which contains yeasts i.e. beers, lagers, bitters, wines, Champaign, and spirits. I advise no more than 2 glasses of wine a couple of times a week, and completely avoiding beers, lagers etc. Often the liver is compromised when there is a yeast infection, so keeping alcohol, which adversely affects the liver, as low as possible, will aid your recovery.
The Candida diet advises avoiding high sugar fruits such as oranges, grapes, pineapple and melons. Dried fruits are high in concentrated sugars, so eat only small quantities of these. These fruits aside, do have up to 4 fresh fruits a day (unless your testing showed otherwise).
You need to avoid concentrated fruit juices on the Candida diet as these are too high in fruit sugar.
Water is an essential part of the Candida diet. You will need to avoid carbonated sugary drinks (cokes, tonic water, ginger ale, lemonade etc) and aim to drink 2 litres of still bottled (not tap) water a day. An adult requires 2 litres of water on a normal and fairly inactive day to wash the nutrients into the cells and the toxins out of the body. If you are dehydrated you will never manage to clear Candida from your body. Increasing your water intake can also help you lose weight as often we feel hungry when actually we are thirsty, and water flushes out our waste products.
 Recommended Books
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 Overcoming Candida: The Ultimate Cookery Guide , Xandria Williams
Allergy and Candida Cooking Made Easy, by Sandra Lewis (from the Nutricentre +44 (0)20 7436 5122)
Candida Albicans Yeast-free Cookbook: How Good Nutrition Can Help Fight the Epidemic of Candida, by Pat Connolly
Erica White's Beat Candida Cookbook: Over 250 Recipes with a 4-point Plan for Attacking Candidiasis, by Erica White
FOS (fructo-oligosaccharide powder) can be purchased from Biocare www.biocare.co.uk +44 (0)121 433 3727
Stevia natural plant sweetener is available from USA Wisdom Herbs phone: 001 800 899 9908 ext 301 www.wisdomherbs.com
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