The whole diet thing

Hi again.

So the most important thing about beating Candida is diet. In fact many people believe that the only way to get rid of it is to starve it. There is a lot of evidence to prove this and I sort of subscribe to that theory too. The problem is that it is difficult to starve Candida, withouth starving yourself, because of the vast amount of foods you have to cut out, in order to starve the Candida.

In fact, you have to cut out most foods, but of the foods you are allowed to eat, you can eat as much as you want. It is just too much to mention all the foods you have to cut out, for me to mention them all, so I will rather just name the few basic groups to cut out and then summarize in short what you can actually eat.

Food Types to avoid completely:

1. All sugars and by this I mean all sugars, including honey, fruit, tea (poly-saccharides) and any processed foods that contain sugars. You will have read labels very carefully from now on to find out whether there is sugar in your foods. Sugar is one of Candida's favourite foods and it simply thrives on sugar.
2. All yeast. This includes all foods that use yeast in the manufacturing process as well. This means bread (almost all types, except for almond bread), beer of course (and all other alcohol) and any other foods that contain yeast. These first two groups are the favourite foods for Candida and avoiding these will go a long way to exterminating it.
3. All starch. Yes, white rice, potatoes, bread again and any other foods that contain starch. I know this is a bad one, because so many people like starch, but starch consists of carbo-hydrates and carbs are converted to sugar by the digestive process and before you know it, you have taken in sugar.
4. Carbs. Yes I mentioned it above, but you really need to make sure you curb the intake of carbs. If you are going to take in carbs, it has to be complex carbs, because they take longer to break down in the body, causing the blood to take them up as they become available and utilise them immediately. So if you have to take carbs, make it complex carbs. You can find a list of carbs here http://www.weightlossforall.com/complex-carbs.htm.

Foods you can actually eat.

If you thought that what I mentioned above, excludes almost all foods, you are almost right, there is very little left. So what can you eat? Well the guidelines are prette simple. All meats and proteins (except peanuts) and all green vegetables. My friend and I have done some research and found that if you take in any form of meat or fish and a large quantity of green vegetables each day, you actually get in all the nutrients you need, execpt for vitamin C. That is quite impressive, but boring. Below is a list of high protein foods that you can take in.

whey (supplement found in health food stores)
chicken breast
turkey breast
salmon
tuna
cottage cheese
swordfish
haddock
lean ground turkey
round steak
sirloin steak
lean ground beef
orange roughy
eggs
pork
crab
lobster
shrimp
buffalo

Be sure to eat as much oil-rich fish like salmon, tuna and sardines as possible as the Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids have been shown to be very effective in combatting Candida.

My diet consists of eggs in the morning, a can of sardines, tuna or salmon for lunch and meat or chicken at night, with spinach or brocolli. If you have any nice recipes you would like to share, please post them to this blog, as this diet is terribly boring and difficult to stick to.

Okay, so that's it for today, hope to receive some posts soon.

God Bless

Rian