IBS AND CANDIDA ALBICANS: KILLING OFF THE CANDIDA
Note: do not follow these diets if they conflict with instructions from your medical practitioner.Plan OneThe Common-Sense Approach: For People who are Overweight or Normal Weight for their Height and Build.Your aims:1 to cut down the Candida’s food2 to build up the immune systemRemember: your loss is also the Candida’s lossCUT OUT OR RESTRICT:• Bread: one wholemeal slice daily• All food and drinks containing sugar• All refined cereal products such as white bread, breakfast cereals, biscuits, cakes• Sweets, chocolate, ice cream, soft drinks• Alcohol• Foods containing yeast such as cheese, particularly blue cheese, and vinegar• Citrus fruits or drinks containing citric acid• Any vitamin preparations containing yeast, particularly brewer’s yeast.(You can use brewer’s yeast powder or tablets to help you determine whether or not you have a Candida problem. Take it for three or four days and if you have not developed an itchy rectum, bloated or uncomfortable abdomen, diarrhoea, rashes or insomnia, then it is unlikely you have a Candida overgrowth.)EAT:• Lots of vegetables, particularly green vegetables, salads and garlic• Fish, meat, poultry• Plain live yoghurt, cottage cheese• Lentils, peas, chick peas, beans, nuts, seeds, buckwheat, and all whole grains• Rice, oats, barley and millet• Peeled fruit (the bloom on the skin of fruit is fungus), limited to two pieces per day*72\326\8*
