Foods to Include and Avoid in Your Candida Diet Recipes

Unhealthy diets like junk, frozen, processed and instant foods can lead to illnesses like Candida infections. All these food items adversely affect the healthy balance in our digestive systems, which lead to the overgrowth of the intestinal and oral fungi primarily Candida albicans. Fortunately, there are Candida diet recipes that you can adopt in treating yeast infections. These are not so different from your normal healthy foods except that there are a few otherwise healthy ingredients that must be avoided lest the yeast infection still go untreated.
Foods to Include:
Basically, the Candida diet centers on the foods that provide for vitamins and minerals known to boost the immune and digestive systems. Keep in mind that a less than healthy digestive system affects the immune system and vice versa.
Thus, the following food items are highly recommended for Candida diet recipes:
*Yogurt - With its abundant quantities of the yeast-eating good bacteria known as lactobacilli acidophilus, yogurt is the staple in the Candida diet.
*Fresh fruits and vegetables - Green, yellow, red and orange varieties are good for your body especially when you include at least 2-3 colors in your meals each day. Fruits, too, are good for you except that you may have to stay off sweet and moldy fruits like melons. Instead, opt for unsweetened cranberry juice, lime juice and lemonade.
*Whole Grains - Opt for the gluten-free varieties of brown rice, oats and millet.
*Nuts and seeds - Flaxseed is one of the best examples although some nuts like almonds are also good additions to your Candida diet recipes.
*Canola and Olive Oils - These food items restore the balance between good and bad bacteria in the intestinal flora.
You should also eat fishes since these are rich in omega-3 oil, an essential oil proven to help the body fight off infection. The most important thing about these foods is that you are provided with the right nutrients to help the body fight off the yeast infection quickly, safely and effectively.
Foods to Avoid:
Well, of course, you also need to avoid certain foods that promote yeast growth. Otherwise, all the natural treatments aside from the Candida diet will be for naught. These foods include the following:
*Pretzels, pastries, crackers and pizza - These are rich in refined flours and sugars, two food ingredients that must absolutely be eliminated from your Candida diet recipes.
*Instant cereals and leavened bread - These contain gluten and molds, which are foods for the yeast.
*Mushrooms - Of course, these are fungi and, as such, will only add to the yeast overgrowth.
*Sweetened drinks - These include soft drinks, root beer and fruits juices in bottles and packs, all of which contain refined sugars.
*Dairy products - Except for yogurt, dairy products like milk and cheese foster the growth of yeasts.
*Alcoholic beverages and caffeinated drinks - These are stimulants that lower the immune system levels and, hence, promote yeast overgrowth in the digestive system.
When you remember these general guidelines about what to include and what to avoid in the preparation of the Candida diet recipes, you should be able to treat and prevent yeast infections.