Guest guest Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 ---snip---- > After reading the message about fructose intolerance, vegan I have > another question ! Anyone know about candida and being on a raw food > diet ? As I suffer quite bad with it can't seem to shift it no > matter what..How would I get started on a raw food diet ? ----snip---- yes, Here's a recenty discussion re: Candida from the RawSchool group: note the relationship to fat! Need to look at what kinds of fat, and how much you're taking in? do you eat a lot of nuts/or avocado?? obviously, delete all animal products: meat, dairy, etc. all the best, Bob [Message: 3 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:20:39 -0000 " ytejam " <sudhakarmss Re: Candida: from Laurie Masters, Dr. Doug Graham > Rawschool , " INFO @ Vibrant Life " <VLinfo@e...> > wrote: > > Following is an excerpt from something my friend and colleague, > Laurie > > Masters, wrote on candida, followed by additional comments from Dr. > Doug > > Graham. > > Elchanan > > ________ > > 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. > > ---------------------- > > > > 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.] 811rv = means a minimum of 80% of calories from carbohydrates, primarily fruits, and sweet fruits being the majority of that, then a maximum of 10% each of protein and fat. rv= raw vegan... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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