Attention Attention Candida Sufferers Avoid These Foods

Candida starts to develop in the gut as a fungus, and at the same time creates its ideal environment inside the gut. Unfortunately, the environment in which Candida thrive means that the pH balance is acidic. This acidity inhibits the bodies' ability to absorb vitamins and minerals, and it limits enzyme production of digestive proteins. One of the side effects of limited enzymes leads to indigestion symptoms, wind or gas, a sense of the intestines being bloated or swollen, increased acid levels and sensitivities to certain types of food.

As your body finds it difficult to digest certain foods, it is best to avoid them. Sugar feeds Candida and that includes the fructose a fruit sugar, so you should avoid eating sugar and fresh or dried fruit. Alcohol is a type of sugar and is a direct food source for Candida. In some areas, water has certain chemicals added by the local water board, and in the majority of cases, it is beneficial, but some Candida sufferers find that chlorinated water can aggravate the condition. As an alternative drink distilled water, there is no guarantee that bottled water is not chlorine free.

One downside of the Candida diet is that it is very restrictive and a very strict regimen, also from a nutritional stand point, it is not good for you. This diet is not a fast easy solution for the Candida sufferer and it takes a lot of commitment. Individual recovery times differ, but as a rule many Candida sufferers' report that you have to be on the diet for one month for every year which you have had Candida. That means, if you have had Candida for 27 years, then you need to follow the diet for twenty seven months.

Its purpose is to starve the yeast organisms which are causing the symptoms. Again, the diet is not very nutritionally sound and as you are already not getting the full benefits of the food you are eating, it may be a good idea to take multivitamins.

In addition, when you undertake the Candida Cleanse diet you have to stick with all of it, if you have one alcoholic drink, you have fed the yeast infection and the imbalance will reoccur. The Candida Yeast Diet is not very aptly named, more correctly it should be the Candida No yeast diet, and although it is a very strict and unforgiving regimen, it does work, it will starve the Candida yeast infection.

A note about sugar, there are effective sugar substitutes, chemical sweeteners are not good for you and are best avoided, but there are natural sweeteners derived from plants. An example is Vegetable Glycerine which, while it can be extracted from many plants normally comes from the coconut palm. It is available at health stores in a liquid form and you use it as you would honey but it is sweeter.

Stevia is another plant based natural sugar substitute, but it is purely a sugar. The vegetable glycerine has a raising agent added that will make cakes or other baked good rise.

Diet That encourage the growth of yeast and should be avoided
AVOID
All sweets including hidden sweeteners in processed foods, such as soups, all fruit and fruit juice.
Avoid grains such as prepared flake cereals
sprouted grain cereals such as:

Amaranth,
Buckwheat,
Corn,
Millet,
Rice,
Rye,
Spelt,
Wheat.

Avoid
Granola,
Pearl barley,
Instant oats,
Cornmeal, degerminated
Hominy grits, degerminated
Microwave popcorn
Blue corn meal

Pasta:

Pasta is flour and water, the flour may be white bread flour and it may be durum flour made from semolina. All types of noodles are made from the same base and they should all be cut out of the diet, with Bufin, the Japanese noodles, Ramen instant noodles, farina, semolina and white flour noodles and pastas.

Baked goods and Breads

Avoid all cakes, pastries, cookies doughnuts or other processed baked food containing sugar. This list includes white bread, or any bread containing wheat, which includes parathas, nanas bread, pita bread, white flour tortillas, wheat dough tortillas, sourdough, or any other ethnic bread made from wheat. Mochi the sweet unleavened bread made from brown rice should be avoided.

Legumes:

Avoid beans and peas with sweeteners, bean sprouts, tempeh which a type of fermented tofu, tofu and textured vegetable protein.

Nuts & Seeds:
Coconut,
Peanuts,
Pistachios,
Walnuts

Dairy Products:
Buttermilk,
Soymilk (sweetened),
All kinds of cheeses,
Cottage cheese,
Kefir,
Milk,
Sour cream
Crème fraîche
Sweetened yogurt.

Fruit:

Never eat dried fruit, and when you start the Candida cleanse diet it is best to avoid all fruit because of the fructose the sugar it contains. Once you have eliminated the current Candida infection then eat fruit with a moderate amount of sugar. Low sugar fruits are apples, grapefruit, melon,
and strawberries.

Beverages:

Alcohol,
Cereal beverages,
Coffee both regular and decaffeinated
Fruit juices
Soft drinks including the diet soft drinks.
Processed tea drinks such as lemon tea.
All fruit teas,
Black tea

Condiments and Sauces:

No
Ketchup or catsup or any type of tomato sauce
Cream sauces such as Alfredo
Steak sauce,
NO
Capers,
Dried or powdered garlic,
Miso,
Dried or powdered onion,
Pickles or chutneys, which include anything made with sugar and distilled vinegar.
Spices,
Distilled vinegar
Sauerkraut,
Proteins:
Meat products such as beef chicken or pork have added antibiotics and hormones and they should be avoided if you want to eat meat then eat free-range organic products. Smoked meats such as bacon, sausages and salami products such as pepperoni have added sugar and should be cut out of your diet.

Vegetables Avoid:

Beetroot
Canned tomatoes
Carrots
Cucumber skins,
Mushrooms (all types),
Potato skins,
Prepared soups,
Canned tomatoes

Eat:

Beans,
Broccoli,
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage,
Cauliflower,
Celery,
Cucumbers
Green pepper,
Kale,
Lettuce
Onion, radishes,
Parsley,
Peas,
Rocket or arugulla
Spinach,
Tomatoes,

I have immediately listed vegetables that can be eaten in this article.

In the next article entitled, "Attention! Attention! Candida Sufferer Eat These Foods"

Find a list of foods that foster an environment for normal Candida levels and a healthy immune system and a healthy body.