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Diatary Connection To Candida

A major contributing factor to Candida is improper diet, especially high sugar consumption. Yeast rapidly metabolizes sugar and can produce alcohol. Ethanol and acetaldehyde, plus carbon dioxide gas, all of which are toxic to the body and the the end by-products of Candida feeding on refined carbohydrates. Honey, molasses and maple syrup are simple sugars and will also worsen an untreated Candida yeast overgrowth.

Sugar does not necessarily cause Candida directly, but it allows the already present yeast cells to grow more rapidly and eventually an overgrowth takes place. Diets consisting of foods high in refined carbohydrates and/or regular consumption of alcoholic beverages or soft drinks containing sugar provide a rich food source for the fast proliferation of Candida.

The low-nutrient, low bulk, highly refined carbohydrate diets of most North Americans can, over a period of time, transform a healthy large intestine into a lifeless pipe containing layers of encrusted fecal material, mucus and debris thereby promoting the growth of Candida and other parasites. This in turn causes constant purification, fermentation, stagnation, gas, and eventual constipation, and then auto-intoxication. Under these conditions, the intestine becomes a favorable home environment for toxic producing, pathogenic bacteria and for the growth of the mycelized tentacles of the fungal form of Candida.

A diet high in white flour products, pastas and white rice also serve as a very desirable diet for Candida, which then becomes further entrenched in the microscopic crevices of the intestines.

The small intestine, where absorption of food takes place, houses a more fluid kind of material and does not become so caked with old toxic wastes as does the colon, when mucus and other wastes encourage Candida growth. We have up to twenty-five feet of intestinal area. If we were to lay it out end to end, the entire surface area of the intestines, including the villi and micro villi (which increased the surface area for absorption) would nearly cover the size of a tennis court. This is incredible - an extensive, sophisiticated surface area all designed for the proper absorption of nutrients.

When Candida yeast begins to develop and grow in the small intestines, it literally covers a part of this membrane area, preventing the assimilation (or absorption) of nutrients in food. In fact, most people are starving for not only vitamins and minerals, but particularly for protein, because this absorptive surface area is impaired.

Good nutrition is necessary for the production of hormones and enzymes, for the production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach for proper digestion, for repair of the body tissues and for all processes of energy and cellular metabolism. Candida causes a condition of nutritional deficiency which worsens through the course of time.

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