Candida albicans is a form of yeast that naturally occurs
in your body. It feeds of sugars, yeast, mold, and fungi
that are in your diet. The more that you eat the foods
that Candida albicans needs the quicker the yeast will
spread. Because of Candida's need for sugar, it can cause
you to crave unhealthy foods that contain large amounts of
refined carbohydrates and sugars. Something in your body
could be causing you to be a junk food junkie! One of the
best things to do is to starve the Candida albicans out of
you.
There are many foods that need to be either limited or
completely avoided when you are on a diet to reduce a
Candida infection. A good rule of thumb is to avoid foods
with sugars or yeast. Reducing these will reduce the
number of carbohydrates in your daily intake. Sometimes a
carb restriction of less than 60g per day is required. It
is not easy to eliminate the sources of sugar in your diet.
All of us can recognize sugar in its most common
forms(raw, white, and brown), but there are some sneakier
types out there. Honey, turbinado, demerrara, amesake, and
fruit. You definitely need to remove fresh, frozen, and
dried fruit, along with fruit juices, from your diet.
Fruit contains natural, simple sugars that yeast can feed
on a quickly grow. Read the label on any food you
purchase. If you see any on of these words put it back on
the shelf. Avoid: Sucrose, fructose, maltose, lactose,
glycogen, glucose, mannitol, sorbital, glactose, and both
mono and polysaccharides.
The other group of foods that you have to skip entirely are
those that contain yeast. Baker's yeast, brewer's yeast,
Engevita, and Torula are the most common forms of yeast you
will come across at your local grocery store. You can
understand why you need to avoid breads, rolls, crackers,
bagels, pastries, and muffins. You will have to avoid
alcohol, also. Foods that are thought to have a mold
contamination or use fermentation have to be eliminated as
well. Foods like peanuts, peanut butter, pistachios,
coffee, black tea, cider, root beer, and all forms of
cheese should be avoided like the plague. All forms of
vinegar except organic apple cider vinegar should be
avoided, too. This is not a complete list of the foods to
be avoided, the ones to be reduced are not even included.
If you want a complete guide, you can find a lot of great
information on the internet, at your local library, or your
chosen health care provider.
Now that your know what to eliminate or reduce in your
diet, you are ready to learn what you can eat. After
reading the "do not" list, you thought your options were
limited to water only. Not true. Beef, poultry, lamb,
eggs, and veal are viable meats for you Moderate portions
are recommended. All manners of fish: clams, lobster, and
shrimp. The fresher the better, but frozen is acceptable.
Many nuts and seed such as Brazil nuts, almonds, cashews,
filburts, and pumpkin seeds. Fresh vegetables should be
stressed, Asparagus and spinach, especially, but do not
overlook eating a variety like beets, cabbage, cauliflower,
carrots, and tomatoes. Think fresh though. Processing
lowers the nutritional value and can add Candida friendly
preservatives. This list could cover several pages if it
included everything you can eat.
Some of the things you have to avoid can be re-introduced
after the first two weeks of the diet. Introduce them
slowly, and only one at a time. If you eat some thing
again and have a painful recurrence, then you will have a
good idea what caused it an can quickly eliminate that food
again. You can drink small amounts of fruit juice if you
prepare it yourself. That means to squeeze your own juice.
Have this infrequently.
Living on a Candida diet does not have to be boring or keep
you from going out to eat with your friends or lover. You
just have to show restraint and some common sense. It's
much better than the painful alternative of a severe yeast
infection.
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