candida elimination diet
02 Nov 2008
I thoroughly recommend Erica White's Anti Candida Handbook and Cookbook.. you can get these on www.nutritionhelp.com.
I was on an anti-candida diet for 3 years myself, avoiding yeast, all kinds of sugar including cheese, fruit (except tomatoes), fermented and processed foods, although I was allowed wheat and ate a lot of home made soda bread.
I followed Erica White's 4 point anti-Candida plan, which means diet eliminating sugar and yeast, taking supplements, probiotics and carefully, measured amounts of anti-fungals. I recovered from post viral fatigue and my asthma unexpectedly reduced by about two thirds. Ididn't put my children on the diet of course, but I stopped feeding them burgers, factory pies and sausages, and my daughter stopped getting tonsilitis every winter.
One thing that is still a nuisance is that most canned tomatoes contain citric acid which is a yeast - although Sainsbury's organic tomatoes are about the only ones I can find now without this additive. The Co-op used to sell Tarantella organic canned tomatoes but they seem to have stopped lately in my local store. Good luck, your friends will think you're mad, but the anti-Candida diet is not another fad.
Audrey
