The basic
principle for an anti-Candida diet is not to feed
the yeast-beast. It appears a humongous task to maintain
a diet avoiding everything that feeds yeast but key
thing to remember is that it is only needed short term
for a maximum of six weeks. The logic that works behind
an anti-Candida diet
is that the more you meet the terms with it the more
quickly Candida starves to death.
The only
important part of you food that is a big no for such a
diet is sugar and yeast that can ferment to increase and
help the growth of Candida. Hence, it is suggested to
begin a Candida diet by cleansing the body and store all
the tempting no-no food, including beer, into a
box to be stored away from sight only to be enjoyed
later when your are minus the over-growing Candida in
the body.
Anti-Candida
diet
prescribes avoiding aged cheeses, alcohol, chocolate,
dried fruits, fresh fruits, fermented foods, mushrooms,
vinegar, glutenous foods, all sugars, honeys and syrups,
and foods that contain yeast. The restrictions in
consumption of alcohol includes wines, beer champagne,
whiskey brandy, gin, rum, vodka, liqueurs, cider, root
beers.
The
anti-Candida diet works towards cleansing the Candida
affected body by avoiding feeding them any more of
sugar. Since, alcohol is high in sugar that can feed the
growth of the Candida yeast and put stress on your
organs and immune system it is advised to put it away.
Enjoying the beers along with the existence of Candida
is putting things literally on the rocks! Though exclusion
of major food groups and addictives make anti-Candida
diet tough but the fact that one can go back to good old
times are reasons enough to hold the horses back. Until
you have successfully thrown the excess bacteria out you
have to follow the holistic ways to get back to
normal.
So what
does one drink while starving the Candida are
water-filtered decaffeinated coffee, malt-free coffee
substitutes, herb teas, madura, Formosan and rooibos
teas, plain and sparkling mineral water, filtered tap
water, malt-free soya milk, home squeezed grapefruit
juice, homemade lemon barley water, Pau D’Arco tea,
unsweetened carob, all vegetable juices, lemonade made
from one part unsweetened apple juice to seven parts
plain or mineral water.
All one needs to remember that cutting down on that wine now is stretching the diet even longer. So a few days off them and then you include that glass of wine back once the diet starts working! Balancing the diet you have is all that takes to tame the Candida in control.
