It's settling down a little bit. Here is my daily routine. Tell me what I may be missing.

Salads - lettuce, one avacado, one cucumber, 2 freahly squeezed lemons (juice), celery (usually for lunch or mid afternoon)

Green Apples - about four - six a day (breakfast)

Strawberries (sometimes to start the day)

Blackberries (ocassionaly)

What else can I add to my diet that won't feel candida? How are sun dried goji berries as a snack? Good? Bad?

Can I add durian for once in a while, like twice a month, or will it feel it due to the high fat content? What about banana's?

sounds like you're doing better! I was wondering.

The food choices feel VERY limited. I need to know what else is okay to eat. I sometimes have some greens like spinach with my salad. My fat is coming from avocados.

* Reducing fat intake will help long-term, by improving body's ability to digest sugars.

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A few weeks ago I cut fat our of my diet and then I started again recently with just avocados. I used to have a higher fat diet for a good couple of months where I ate "kale salad" with nut pate / almonds, etc in them, about 15 LBS a week, or maybe 13. That must have put a lot of damage on my system. Right now I have stopped eating the kale salad (it also had a bunch of extra virgin olive oil as well) and have been eating better. I love avocados in my salad and it fills me for a good hour and a half, but I need more foods to fulfil me that won't feed the candida.

Candida feed on sugars, Avoiding fruit would help this. Pau D'Arco tea or capsules can help kill the candida, as well as a garlic @#$%&. The key to killing candida is to cut off their food supply(sugar) but to feed the healthy bacteria in our intestines (they eat fructo oligosaccarhides). Idon't know if sauerkraut is raw? but it is an excellent food choice to kill candida. If you are willing to go the route of supplements, probiotics will feed the "good" bacteria and you could use caprylic Acid to help kill the yeast. I believe grape seed oil is also effective. Candida is difficult to kill since they have the optimum living conditions inside our intestines or vaginal tissue. They thrive on damp, dark, and sugary conditions. Let me know what you decide and how well it works for you Peace

The thing is that I do not want to take supplements, or pills, etc. It is against what I am going for and believe in as a raw foodist. I want the purest of nature, and want to kill the candida and need to know what fruits, if any are okay to eat, as well as veggiess, and nuts, seeds, and dried fruits.

I wanred to eat dried Goji berries but was unsure if I could eat them so I didn't eat them. I am also unsure about banana's, watermelon, etc. I was craving a watermelon today, and had a ton of apples to fix my sugar craving

I know that candida ia also caused by a high fat diet. Are durians okay to have once a month?

Also, I guess working out building more muscle mass would also help in fighting the immune system as well, correct?

The problem was my sleep patterns. I would go to sleep late, at like 3, 4 or 5 for the past year or so, and I'd sometims have some fatty kale salad around 2 am some nights from coming home from open mic night at the local bars. I'd also eat very sugary stuff, like figs (the organic kind that are light brown and have the sugar on them). I think that Bryan was right about me living the wrong way and fixing it, and I have. Going to sleep before 1 am, and slowly taking care of my body. Going out into the sun for a good amount of the day, and focusing on getting my work done, and the only thing I need to make this PERFECT would be knowing exactly what fruits I CAN have and what fruits I should not eat. Any help would be appreciated.

how about the living foods?

sauerkraut, seed cheese, and sprouts?

Ok, I've only just started looking into this, and my diet is only 50% raw at present, and I don't mind taking supplements but...

I've heard avoid all fruit for the first month. Then only introduce fruit that has a low gylcemic index, such as lemons, grapefruit, limes, some berries. I don't know about strawberries – do they tend to have a lot of mould on or not? Possibly apples that aren't too sweet.

Nuts, apparently, should be washed first, because of moulds.

As for fats, I suppose, again, nuts and seeds. Avocados are great, but they contain so much richness, including more toxins than other fruit, You can't just eat them.

What about sushi? Only joking. But are there any seaweeds that can be eaten raw?

Garlic – in sensible amounts, to help kill candida but not wipe out your own friendly flora.

Isn't sauerkraut a fermented product, therefore bad for removing candida? Just want to know.

Seems to me that being 100% raw AND fighting candida is going to be very hard, because fruit is one of the main things in a raw diet. Some rice and pulses suit me better, from time to time.

Hi there,

You have two choices, you can either eat a veggie based, higher fat diet or a fruit based diet with no overt fats (avos, nuts, seeds, durians, oils). Sugar in fruit is only a problem when too much fat is in the bloodstream. Dr. Graham has helped many people get rid of their candida issues in a short period of time (a few days to a few weeks) by simply having them cut out all fat for awhile. I personally feel that the fruit/no fat approach is the easiest and most appetizing approach. Don't be afraid to eat fruit. Fruit is our natural food! :-)

Here is his response to a question about candida. Go to www.foodnsport.com and read the rest of the FAQs there for more info.

"I have candida or a yeast infection. How can I eat so much fruit?

Excess fat is the culprit in candida, not sugar, per se. When fat levels in the blood rise, so does blood sugar, because excess fat inhibits insulin from performing its function of escorting sugar out of the bloodstream. The excess fat lines the blood vessel walls, the cells, insulin receptor sites, the sugar molecules themselves, and the insulin with a thin coating of fat, thus blocking and inhibiting normal metabolic activity.
Too much sugar in the blood is as life threatening as too little and can result in serious illness or death. Yeast, or candida, is a constant presence in the blood; it serves as a life preservation mechanism, blooming when there is an excess of sugar in the blood stream to bring blood sugar down to a non-threatening level. When the sugar is distributed and used by the cells of the body, the yeast quickly dies off as it is supposed to.

If fat levels stay chronically high due to a poor diet, sugar will remain in the bloodstream and feed the large candida colonies instead of feeding the 18 trillion cells of your body. Starved for fuel, these cells can no longer metabolize energy, and you become tired, and feel rundown. Because all carbohydrate, fat, and protein that we eat is converted to simple sugar (glucose) if it is to be used by the cells for fuel, the way out of this cycle is not to eat less sugar, but to consume less fat. When fat levels drop, the sugar starts to get processed and distributed again, and the yeast levels drop because there is no longer excess sugar available."



Take care!

Audrey
www.rawhealing.com

That's really intersting. I've read that olive oil has anti-fungal properties and that omega oils are vital for healing the gut damage that candida has done. Are you talking just saturated fat here, or is this really all fat, including that in nuts and seeds?

Hi Gramlin,


That means all overt (obvious) fats..all seeds, nuts, oils, avos, olives, durians. Fruit and greens do contain some fat but not enough to cause problems when you are trying to heal from candida.

Take care,

Audrey
www.rawhealing.com

How long do you suggest doing this for? A diet devoid of fats is pretty dangerous. Every nerve-cell and organ requires omega fats to function, and even cholestrol is important for nerves, not to mention all the steroidal hormones and the prostaglandins essential to a healthy endocrine system.

You said this way was fast – fast enough to avoid the harm that completely cutting out fats would cause?

Best,
Gram

Hi Gram,

Like I said, fruits and veggies do contain fats, look some up. You'd be surprised. For example check out watermelon: 89%Carbohydrates 7%Protein 4%Fat. There is no need to worry about getting enough fat in your diet. We really need very little. You might want to read Dr. Graham's FAQ section at his website www.foodnsport.com.

Take care,

Audrey
www.rawhealing.com

What I usually do with my salads is put about 10-13 soaked raw organic almonds with tomato, cucumbers, celery, and spinach, and mix that with romaine lettuce and I have that for dinner.

It seems everyone who talks about how fat is bad is simply regurgitating what they've heard from Mr. Graham. I've never heard of his opinions being endoursed anywhere else by anyone else ever? I'd be curious to hear some scientific critiques of his theories. They don't seem to ring true for me.

I lean that way myself. A healthy diet is supposed to have between 10-20% fat, but definitely not more. My source is Patrick Holford, leading nutritionist here in the UK, head of the optimum nutrition centre and the brain-bio centre. An active research charity.

I looked at Doctor Graham's site. He doesn't exactly back it up with evidence, does he?

That's why I wanted to know exactly how fast this fat-free methond for beating candida is supposed to work? Too little fat is dangerous.

Skip bananas, carrots, and beets. They are hybrid foods and very high in sugar.

I think my Candida is in check now. I haven't had any symptoms since my first month of being raw (February). I was (sort of) following David Wolfe's Beauty Diet at first. I am now on his Sunfood Diet. I am still eating more sweet fruits than I should, but I have no signs of Candida (I'm just too skinny).

Aw!!

Have been reading all these posts and getting thoroughly confused? I have candida as well and the doctor checked me out yesterday and it's still there!

I've been drinking kefir everyday, to help my complexion shine...it's been working and my pseudo neck wrinkles have disappeared...it's made out of low-fat goat's milk...

I eat 10 avocado a week with all kinds of sprouts grown at home - mostly bean sprouts, lentils and at least 9 different types of veg, leafy veg eg spinach, red cabbage, cucumber, carrots (small quantities), red bell peppers, lettuce, onions, cauliflower...just chopped up. I try to have veg or fruit with a high water content so as not to drink too much water. The funny thing is is that my skin is blooming but so's the candida!! I'm recovering from 7 years of chronic eczema.

I have cut out a lot of carbs, especially rice - most of my carbs come from fruit and veg. This summer I've been having watermelon salads...I know you're not meant to combine this with other stuff, but I have it with leafy veg salad and my complexion always look great afterwards.

I go by how my skin looks and also energy levels. Doing this, smoothies, blends and large bowlfuls of either fruit/veg salads keeps me going. I can't eat nuts at the mo as they break my skin out in eczema... I love sunflower seeds sprouts though

Sea veg? Very nice in soups...especially hijiki and kombu

Waffle, waffle

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