Finding Candida diet foods can be overwhelming and frustrating. Do you need help?
Maybe you have just been told a long list of food to avoid on a candida diet and now you are thinking, "What's left to eat?", a common dilemma for someone just being introduced to a lifestyle aimed at defeating those yeasty beasties.
Actually though, candid diet foods can be fun, satisfying, scrumptious and energizing leaving you feeling clean, healthy and mentally alert.
So, let's develop a mind set to find the candida diet foods that feed us without feeding the yeast. When we feed the Candida yeast organisms, they poop and pee inside of us, releasing their toxic by-products into our bodies. These toxic by-products cause us to feel yucky - tired and crabby with a lot of mental fog. We just cannot think straight. On top of that our gastrointestinal tract rebels with a lot of gas, bloat, pain, diarrhea or constipation (or both) and general dis-ease.
Unknowingly we have created the environment that the yeast loves by choosing to eat food that the yeast Candida thrive on including sugar, white flour products, sweet drinks, fruit juice, candy, sodas, cookies, pies, doughnuts, pastries and any other refined carbohydrates. Those concentrated sweets encourage the growth of yeast organisms in our guts which then crowd out the friendly organisms that we so desperately need.
Once the yeast overgrows it then becomes more invasive by transforming from the bud form to a branching form. As those branches delve into the intestinal wall, they allow lots of struff access to your blood stream that's never supposed to be in there. Now you have a leaky gut. When the gut begins to leak, toxins and partially digested food now have access into the body tissues. The body recognizes these as foreign invaders, sets up an immune response and now we may develop immune disorders and food allergies.
Whoa, this is really getting out of hand. Let's stop this downward spiral. If we created the environment that yeast love, why can't we create an environment that they flee from? We can! And we will!
Food that defeats the yeast beast Candida actually empowers us. We should all be eating candida diet foods because it is simply the healthy way to eat, the way to optimally nourish our bodies. Do you want to eat "death foods" or these living foods that become your lifestyle of health. Rather than calling it a "Candida diet", let's consider it a healthy eating plan for life.
The basic foundation for this optimal eating plan includes meat and vegetables. Our definition of meat includes any animal protein such as chicken, turkey, fish, beef and even the more exotic meat sources like buffalo, ostrich, emu, etc. if you are so inclined. To digest and utilize these proteins well, cook them with milder temperatures, enough to sear in the juices, but leave them moist and tender, just until the "pinkness" is gone.
Now add a rainbow of colorful gorgeous vegetables to your meal. To nourish your body with a variety of nutrients choose colorful combinations of vegetables including green leafy vegetables, green, red, yellow, orange, purple, white and others. Make your plate look like a rainbow. Remember the pot of gold lies at the end of the rainbow. Tap into that nourishing wealth.
Small appropriate servings of the healthy carbohydrates round out this delicious plate of food. Also called complex carbohydrates, healthy carbohydrates include whole root vegetables (beets, carrots, new potatoes, parsnips, etc.) and whole grains. Because yeast feeds on the gluten in grains and because our weakened digestion makes it difficult to digest the gluten, we eliminate the gluten grains of wheat, oats, barley and rye and only eat from the non-gluten grains at first. Trying out these less well known grains becomes an exciting adventure. Discover what other ancient cultures, blessed with healthy people, enjoyed when you eat quinoa (pronounce keen-wah), teff, amaranth, wild rice and brown rice.
You will love your candida diet foods as you see the beautiful colorful variety of food on your plate and enjoy the tastes and textures in your mouth. And best of all you will delight in the new you, the new and healthy way you feel, vibrant, alive, clear thinking, energized with a comfortable tummy. Although some may call it a candida diet we embrace this eating plan as our new healthy lifestyle way of eating.
Author Resource:-
After personally dealing with the ravages of yeast overgrowth herself, Dr. Bessie Jo Tillman, MD, became an advocate to help others overcome this misery. She has coached thousands back to health in her years as a physician in natural healing methods. Enjoy the best candida diet foods ever in her book Dr. Jo's Natural Healing Cookbook the best candida diet around.