This was Laurie's message on Candida..

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To our Moderator;

May be worth checking if Laurie is ok for me to fwd this - I just

thought it would save her the time when I HAVE the time today..x

 

 

This is a very brief overview I wrote to someone recently:

 

We were originally going to call Dr. Graham's new book Fruit or Fat?,

because it's IMPERATIVE for raw fooders to understand that they

really only have TWO choices of where to get calories: fruit--or fat.

People are very surprised at this. They think they can pound down the

vegetables and get enough to eat. It's simply not true. A HUGE salad-

-say with a WHOLE large head of lettuce, 5 tomatoes, a cucumber, some

carrot, beets, peas--may have only 400 calories. A small sedentary

woman would have to eat more than 4 of those, a man 7, to get enough

food for the day. Juicing vegetables gets you more concentrated

calories, but it will cause imbalances in the body...whole foods are

the only way to go for health. (Also, the tomatoes and cucumber are

actually fruit anyway!)

 

Here's the short version: Picture that sugar goes three places when

you eat it: (1) your digestive system, (2) your bloodstream, (3) your

cells. In the presence of fat, sugar gets stuck at stage 2 and has a

heck of a time moving out of the blood and into the cells. Then the

pancreas has to work like crazy, to the point of exhaustion, trying

to help the sugar out of the bloodstream.

 

People have been told that fruit sugar CAUSES candida. It's simply

not true. In fact, candida is NOT something you want to get rid of!

We always candida it in our body, but generally we don't give it

enough food to proliferate like crazy. Without candida, the high

sugar that we have created in our blood by eating so much fat would

kill us. The candida just shows up at the banquet! Give thanks! Then

lower its food supply back down to the normal level and it will

return to its healthy, low-level existence in your body.

 

Get rid of the fat, and eat plenty of (whole, fresh--not dried)

fruit, and the sugar flows easily into--and then OUT of the blood,

fueling every cell of your body with the energy it needs to do its

job. Get the fat down to one avocado a week or a handful of nuts,

max. Then eat plenty of WHOLE fruit . As I wrote in my email, I start

every day with 10 bananas and a bunch of other fruit in a

smoothie...3 quarts! And I only weigh 85 lbs. Learning to eat enough

fruit that we don't gorge on fat takes practice, like weight

training...

 

Of course, getting the candida symptoms under control and returning

our bodies to healthful homeostasis can get more complicated than

this, but in general that's the formula. If you ever need private

consultation, I am available, as are Dr. Trader and Dr. Graham.

 

As Doug says, you can think of candida like mushrooms in your back

lawn. They may grow all winter, but as soon as the sun comes out in

spring, it only takes a couple of days for the mushrooms to

disappear. If your dietary approach to candida does not cause

similarly quick results, that tells you you may want to try another

angle.

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From Doug Graham:

 

The conventional wisdom is that diabetes is caused by an

insulin/sugar problem. The not-so-well-known fact is that it is

caused by a surplus of fat in the bloodstream.

Coat sugar with fat, and insulin can barely touch it.

Coat insulin with fat, and it cannot reach the sugars.

Coat both in fat plus the insulin receptors, and insulin cannot do

its job.

None of this has to do with insulin, however. It is all due to fat

consumption. Candida, or yeast infection, has the same cause, and

often accompanies diabetes.

 

If you would limit your daily fat intake to less than 15% of daily

calories, preferably to 10%, your diabetes symptoms would become a

thing of the past, much sooner than you would imagine. The way you

measure is by analyzing all your food on fitday.com.

 

What you'll find is that as long as you are eating cooked and

processed food, meats, dairy, cooked grains, it will be difficult to

get your fat consumption down to under 15% and still eat enough

calories to sustain yourself. The solution is to substantially

increase your consumption of simple carbohydrates to replace the

calories you have been obtaining from fat. This is accomplished by

eating larger amounts of fresh fruit, which are high in simple

carbohydrates and low in fat. The 811rv diet that we follow on this

board accomplishes that objective.