What can you eat on a Candida Diet?

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

The Candida Diet has been raising some questions with some of you. There are a lot of foods that I can’t eat that are a part of SAD (Standard American Diet – even its’ abbreviation is very telling), but that doesn’t mean I am doomed to starve! I would like to give you a brief overview of what Candida is, some diet requirements, and a really disgusting test you can try at home to see if you may have a Candida overgrowth problem.
Candida is yeast, we all have it, and it’s on our skin in our mouth and in our intestines. Sadly it can become a very real problem when yeast and good bacteria in the intestine get out of balance. There are a lot of contributing factors involved with this imbalance. Antibiotic use is a big one, especially long term use like chronic sinus infections or acne medicine, but we also get it from meat and milk products. Some other contributors are birth-control pills, hormonal changes, medications, and even drinking chlorinated water, all can cause partial or total destruction of your friendly bacteria in the lower gut, but do not harm the Candida. If you add to that a diet rich in food that Candida feeds upon (sugar, carbs, refined food, and yeast) the Candida grows hog wild!
What’s the solution? Starve out the Candida while taking natural remedies that aggressively attacks it. The best diet starts with organic whole food. That means we need to go back to Little House on the Prairie days! Wikipedia says this of whole food: are those that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and refined as little as possible before being consumed. They typically do not contain added sugar, salt, fat, or chemicals. Organic food: are produced according to a certain production standards, it means they were grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives. For animals, it means they were reared without the routine use of antibiotics and without the use of growth hormones. In most countries, organic produce must not be genetically modified. O.K. how many of us now want to start eating organic whole food? Grown without human waste, sewage sludge, radiation, and genetically modified?! Wha? Did you even know you were consuming food that had all that? But that is a whole other article.

Back to the Candida diet. Lots of organic vegetables but limited amount of fruits (too much natural sugar). Organic eggs, meat, and fish, nuts, seeds, and legumes, gluten free whole grains, and to drink – water, tea, sparkling water, and nut milks. Most of this is better if it is consumed raw (uncooked) except the meat and eggs of course.  There are lots of resources to learn more about the diet, some books I would recommend are: Complete Candida Yeast Guidebook by Jeanne Marie Martin with Zoltan P. Rona, M.D. and The Bible Cure For Candida by Don Colbert, M.D.
Before I leave you a link for a really great informational site that talks about symptoms and treatment (ya gotta check it out, it’s more common than you think)  I must give the disgusting spit test to try at home if you think you might have Candida. In the morning when you get up, before you rinse or brush or eat anything, spit in a clear glass of room temperature water. Watch your spit! If it turns cloudy, sits at the top but has strings coming down (jellyfish look) or has little cloudy floaters in the middle of the glass or at the bottom, this is all evident of Candida overgrowth. The faster it happens the more involved the overgrowth is but give it upwards to an hour to check. Mine was almost immediately! If you are normal your spit will completely disappear in the glass. This test can be pretty gross; I had my dad do it and just looking at his spit made me want to gag!  
Check out this site for more Candida info: www.candida-yeast-infection-relief.com

Thanks so much for reading. Please subscribe to our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bearingfruitnet

Julene Saunders, Christian work from home mom and proud Uri International Independent Distributor

Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? Want to fire your boss and work from home? Check out our opportunity here: http://www.urilife.com/greenhealth

Tags: christian home business, candida, raw food diet, organic, whole foods, nutrition, work from home, candida albicans, candida diet

Related posts

• Uri International’s “The Feast” Enabled me to quit my Expensive coffee habbit! (0)
• Combating candida with a healthy diet, how proper nutrition is your best defense. (1)
• What came first, gluten intolerance or candida overgrowth? (0)
• The Coconut Oil Miracle. (0)
• Garlic’s powerful benefits for fighting the overgrowth of candida yeast (0)

Comments

Leave a comment