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Never Eat
Fat - Oil
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Never Eat
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and Sugar in the Same Time
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Fruit and Candida
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Fruit and Candida
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Candida is a form of yeast, an organism that naturally occurs in human blood. It is supposed to be there. This microbe consumes sugar for its food. If blood- sugar levels are always at a normal level, so is the size of the Candida colony that lives in the blood.
When the sugar we eat leaves the blood to be dof the body, any excess yeast quickly dies off, as it is supposed to.
Should blood-sugar levels rise, however, the Candida organisms multiply rapidly (“bloom”) as they consume the excess sugar. Once they have done so and blood-sugar levels come back down to normal, so does the number of Candida microbes.
This ebb and flow happens as a normal part of human physiology and causes no health problems or uncomfortable symptoms. If fat levels stay chronically elevated due to a fat-rich diet, sugar remains in the bloodstream and feeds the large Candida colonies instead of feeding the 18 trillion cells of the body.
Starved for fuel, these cells can no longer metabolize energy. You become tired, and feel rundown.
The Candida microbe in our blood is actually a life- saving organism, one that we do not ever want to eradicate. It functions as another backup system – a safety valve that helps to bring the blood-sugar levels back down to normal in the event that the pancreas and the adrenals fail at doing so. Candida issues plague people until they actually change their lifestyle habits.
Outbreaks of Candida are your wake up call – a warning that your system is rapidly approaching diabetes, and that you would do well to drastically curtail your fat consumption or face dire health consequences.
Fruit consumption did not cause the Candida problem. In the presence of too much fat in the blood, even a small amount of sugar, from any source, can result in abnormally high blood-sugar levels.
Because all carbohydrate, fat, and protein that we eat in 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 for it to eat.
The Candida microbe is extremely short lived. If people suffering from Candida would simply follow a low-fat diet, most of them would find that their Candida issues were completely gone in a matter of just a few days.
Of course, they may still have the underlying pancreatic and adrenal fatigue issues to resolve. Health comes only from healthful living.
When the sugar we eat leaves the blood to be dof the body, any excess yeast quickly dies off, as it is supposed to.
Should blood-sugar levels rise, however, the Candida organisms multiply rapidly (“bloom”) as they consume the excess sugar. Once they have done so and blood-sugar levels come back down to normal, so does the number of Candida microbes.
This ebb and flow happens as a normal part of human physiology and causes no health problems or uncomfortable symptoms. If fat levels stay chronically elevated due to a fat-rich diet, sugar remains in the bloodstream and feeds the large Candida colonies instead of feeding the 18 trillion cells of the body.
Starved for fuel, these cells can no longer metabolize energy. You become tired, and feel rundown.
The Candida microbe in our blood is actually a life- saving organism, one that we do not ever want to eradicate. It functions as another backup system – a safety valve that helps to bring the blood-sugar levels back down to normal in the event that the pancreas and the adrenals fail at doing so. Candida issues plague people until they actually change their lifestyle habits.
Outbreaks of Candida are your wake up call – a warning that your system is rapidly approaching diabetes, and that you would do well to drastically curtail your fat consumption or face dire health consequences.
Fruit consumption did not cause the Candida problem. In the presence of too much fat in the blood, even a small amount of sugar, from any source, can result in abnormally high blood-sugar levels.
Because all carbohydrate, fat, and protein that we eat in 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 for it to eat.
The Candida microbe is extremely short lived. If people suffering from Candida would simply follow a low-fat diet, most of them would find that their Candida issues were completely gone in a matter of just a few days.
Of course, they may still have the underlying pancreatic and adrenal fatigue issues to resolve. Health comes only from healthful living.
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How our Body Process Sugar
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How our Body Process Sugar
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The sugars we eat travel a three-stage journey through our bodies:
Stage1: Sugars start out in the digestive tract when we eat them.
Stage2: They pass through the intestinal wall, into the bloodstream.
Stage3: They then move smoothly and easily out of the bloodstream into our cells.
This occurs rapidly, often in minutes.
When we eat a high-fat diet, the sugar gets trapped in stage 2, and the body works overtime, sometimes to the point of exhaustion and disease, in an effort to move the sugar out of the bloodstream. Meanwhile, the sugar backs up in the blood, creating sustained, elevated blood sugar that wreaks havoc on the body in the form of Candida, fatigue, diabetes, etc.
The Role of Insulin
What happens in the presence of fat that causes sugar to pile up in our bloodstream? It has to do with the pancreas. Under the direction of the brain, the pancreas is responsible for producing a hormone known as insulin. One of insulin’s roles is to attach it self to sugar molecules in the blood and then find an insulin receptor in the blood-vessel wall. The insulin can then transport the sugar molecule through the blood-vessel membrane to the interstitial fluid (the fluid between the cells) and continue to escort sugar across another barrier – the cell membrane – and into the cell itself.
Excess dietary fat in the bloodstream creates some negative insulating effects. When we eat too much fatty food, a thin coating of fat lines the blood-vessel walls, the cells’ insulin-receptor sites, the sugar molecules, as well as the insulin itself. These fats can take a full day or more to “clear” from the blood, all the while inhibiting normal metabolic activity, and preventing these various structures from communicating with each other.
Too much fat in the blood impedes the movement of sugar out of the bloodstream. This results in an overall rise in blood sugar, as sugars continue to travel from the digestive tract:
(Stage 1) into the blood (Stage 2) but cannot escape from the blood so they can be delivered to the cells (Stage 3) which await their fuel.
Sugar and Fat at the Same Meal
This Idea Originated from Herbert M. Shelton
“Food Combining Made Easy” Written by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton
(October 6, 1895 – January 1, 1985)
"Do not combine fat with sugar"
http://www.kindness2.com/fat-and-sugar.html
Raw-food experts give lectures, write books, videos that support their stance against fruit. Their “scientific” information seems conclusive: Fruit is clearly the culprit in blood-sugar problems for raw fooders. But let’s step back for a minute: Take a look at the high-fat recipes in the books, newsletters, and websites of those so quick to tell you to avoid fruit.
Note the fat-laden foods they serve guests at their institutes, retreats, and rejuvenation centers. Pay attention to the rich tasty morsels they serve up at food demos and festival booths. Nuts, seeds, and avocados all run 75% fat or more, as a percentage of their calories. Oils are 100% fat. It takes very little of these foods to push us way over the edge in terms of blood fat, and raw fooders do not eat “very little” of these foods.
Unfortunately, taking care to avoid sugar/fat combinations at the same meal is not sufficient to alleviate blood-sugar problems. Eating a high-fat diet creates elevated blood sugar whenever fruit and other sweets are eaten, regardless of timing.
Here’s why: Sugars require little time in the stomach. Immediately upon putting a simple sweet fruit into your mouth, some of the sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream from under the tongue.
Fruit eaten alone or in simple, well-chosen combination on an empty stomach requires only a few minutes in the stomach before passing to the small intestines, where the sugars can be quickly absorbed. Most of the sugar from fruit travels from the intestines, to the bloodstream, and then to the cells where they are needed within minutes of its consumption.
Fats, however, require a much longer period of time, often twelve to twenty- four hours or more, before they reach their destination, the cells. In the stomach, fats are subjected to a digestive process that usually takes several hours.
When they finally do proceed to the small intestine, they are absorbed into the lymphatic system, where they often spend twelve hours or more before passing to the bloodstream. Most important, fats linger in the bloodstream for many hours longer than do sugars.
On a high-fat diet, therefore, the bloodstream always contains an excessive quantity of fat, and more is coming in at almost every meal. Essentially, even when you eat a fruit meal alone and wait hours before eating fat, those sugars are likely to mix in your bloodstream with the fats you ate the day before.
Whether or not we eat fruit in the presence of such tremendously high levels of fat, we set ourselves up for health problems and inability to remain raw.
Sugar + Fat = High Blood Sugar
Fruit and Chronic Fatigue
Abnormally high fat exists in the blood for several hours every time we eat a high-fat meal. As blood-fat levels rise, the “normal” level of pancreatic function is simply insufficient to clear sugars from the bloodstream.
Eventually, if we eat a high-fat diet for a long enough period of time, the pancreas begins to fail at producing sufficient insulin to maintain healthy blood-sugar levels. Rather than the typical gentle rise-and-fall fluctuations in blood sugar, we begin to experience increasingly higher peaks and deeper valleys.
Blood-sugar levels become unstable due to the over consumption of fat in the diet. This sets up a situation where most of us rely upon adrenal-assisted pancreatic function virtually every time we eat, placing constant excessive demands upon both our pancreas and adrenals.
Society of Adrenaline Junkies
As a society, we have very much become adrenaline junkies. We are addicted to stimulation, and rely upon our next “fix” constantly.
This excessive adrenal demand, coupled with the high stress of our American lifestyle, result in such extreme overuse of the adrenals that they eventually begin to fail.
The symptoms of severe adrenal failure are referred to collectively as “chronic fatigue” in the US, or ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) in Europe. Of course, many signs and symptoms usually lead up to chronic fatigue; it rarely comes as a complete surprise. Lack of motivation, malaise, reliance upon stimulants, excessive need for sleep, and bouts of mononucleosis are all indications of varying degrees of adrenal fatigue.
Stage1: Sugars start out in the digestive tract when we eat them.
Stage2: They pass through the intestinal wall, into the bloodstream.
Stage3: They then move smoothly and easily out of the bloodstream into our cells.
This occurs rapidly, often in minutes.
When we eat a high-fat diet, the sugar gets trapped in stage 2, and the body works overtime, sometimes to the point of exhaustion and disease, in an effort to move the sugar out of the bloodstream. Meanwhile, the sugar backs up in the blood, creating sustained, elevated blood sugar that wreaks havoc on the body in the form of Candida, fatigue, diabetes, etc.
The Role of Insulin
What happens in the presence of fat that causes sugar to pile up in our bloodstream? It has to do with the pancreas. Under the direction of the brain, the pancreas is responsible for producing a hormone known as insulin. One of insulin’s roles is to attach it self to sugar molecules in the blood and then find an insulin receptor in the blood-vessel wall. The insulin can then transport the sugar molecule through the blood-vessel membrane to the interstitial fluid (the fluid between the cells) and continue to escort sugar across another barrier – the cell membrane – and into the cell itself.
Excess dietary fat in the bloodstream creates some negative insulating effects. When we eat too much fatty food, a thin coating of fat lines the blood-vessel walls, the cells’ insulin-receptor sites, the sugar molecules, as well as the insulin itself. These fats can take a full day or more to “clear” from the blood, all the while inhibiting normal metabolic activity, and preventing these various structures from communicating with each other.
Too much fat in the blood impedes the movement of sugar out of the bloodstream. This results in an overall rise in blood sugar, as sugars continue to travel from the digestive tract:
(Stage 1) into the blood (Stage 2) but cannot escape from the blood so they can be delivered to the cells (Stage 3) which await their fuel.
Sugar and Fat at the Same Meal
This Idea Originated from Herbert M. Shelton
“Food Combining Made Easy” Written by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton
(October 6, 1895 – January 1, 1985)
"Do not combine fat with sugar"
http://www.kindness2.com/fat-and-sugar.html
Raw-food experts give lectures, write books, videos that support their stance against fruit. Their “scientific” information seems conclusive: Fruit is clearly the culprit in blood-sugar problems for raw fooders. But let’s step back for a minute: Take a look at the high-fat recipes in the books, newsletters, and websites of those so quick to tell you to avoid fruit.
Note the fat-laden foods they serve guests at their institutes, retreats, and rejuvenation centers. Pay attention to the rich tasty morsels they serve up at food demos and festival booths. Nuts, seeds, and avocados all run 75% fat or more, as a percentage of their calories. Oils are 100% fat. It takes very little of these foods to push us way over the edge in terms of blood fat, and raw fooders do not eat “very little” of these foods.
Unfortunately, taking care to avoid sugar/fat combinations at the same meal is not sufficient to alleviate blood-sugar problems. Eating a high-fat diet creates elevated blood sugar whenever fruit and other sweets are eaten, regardless of timing.
Here’s why: Sugars require little time in the stomach. Immediately upon putting a simple sweet fruit into your mouth, some of the sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream from under the tongue.
Fruit eaten alone or in simple, well-chosen combination on an empty stomach requires only a few minutes in the stomach before passing to the small intestines, where the sugars can be quickly absorbed. Most of the sugar from fruit travels from the intestines, to the bloodstream, and then to the cells where they are needed within minutes of its consumption.
Fats, however, require a much longer period of time, often twelve to twenty- four hours or more, before they reach their destination, the cells. In the stomach, fats are subjected to a digestive process that usually takes several hours.
When they finally do proceed to the small intestine, they are absorbed into the lymphatic system, where they often spend twelve hours or more before passing to the bloodstream. Most important, fats linger in the bloodstream for many hours longer than do sugars.
On a high-fat diet, therefore, the bloodstream always contains an excessive quantity of fat, and more is coming in at almost every meal. Essentially, even when you eat a fruit meal alone and wait hours before eating fat, those sugars are likely to mix in your bloodstream with the fats you ate the day before.
Whether or not we eat fruit in the presence of such tremendously high levels of fat, we set ourselves up for health problems and inability to remain raw.
Sugar + Fat = High Blood Sugar
Fruit and Chronic Fatigue
Abnormally high fat exists in the blood for several hours every time we eat a high-fat meal. As blood-fat levels rise, the “normal” level of pancreatic function is simply insufficient to clear sugars from the bloodstream.
Eventually, if we eat a high-fat diet for a long enough period of time, the pancreas begins to fail at producing sufficient insulin to maintain healthy blood-sugar levels. Rather than the typical gentle rise-and-fall fluctuations in blood sugar, we begin to experience increasingly higher peaks and deeper valleys.
Blood-sugar levels become unstable due to the over consumption of fat in the diet. This sets up a situation where most of us rely upon adrenal-assisted pancreatic function virtually every time we eat, placing constant excessive demands upon both our pancreas and adrenals.
Society of Adrenaline Junkies
As a society, we have very much become adrenaline junkies. We are addicted to stimulation, and rely upon our next “fix” constantly.
This excessive adrenal demand, coupled with the high stress of our American lifestyle, result in such extreme overuse of the adrenals that they eventually begin to fail.
The symptoms of severe adrenal failure are referred to collectively as “chronic fatigue” in the US, or ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) in Europe. Of course, many signs and symptoms usually lead up to chronic fatigue; it rarely comes as a complete surprise. Lack of motivation, malaise, reliance upon stimulants, excessive need for sleep, and bouts of mononucleosis are all indications of varying degrees of adrenal fatigue.
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Truth About Your Candida
Truth About Your Candida
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Until recently, few people had even heard of Candida.
By the late 1990s, however, Candida diagnoses had spread from the alternative to the conventional medical world. In reality, however, few cases of Candida overgrowth are strictly a Candida problem.
Candida in and of itself is harmless. In fact, we can’t sustain life without it in our intestinal tract, and it helps protect us by consuming debris from poor quality food and toxins. In the process, this helps reduce the food supply available to truly harmful pathogens that would otherwise feed on this debris.
In other words, Candida cells intentionally consume food waste and poisons to prevent harmful bugs, such as E. coli, C. diff, and Streptococcus, from feasting on these things and building their armies. Candida can also co-occur with conditions such as Lyme disease, shingles, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, diabetes, and more.
Thus, a large build-up of Candida can serve as a warning sign that something else in your body requires attention—but Candida is often the scapegoat. For instance, a vaginal Streptococcus infection could go unnoticed by doctors, while yeast that’s also present is blamed for the patient’s symptoms. Once you put an end to the primary issue, Candida levels will naturally return to normal.
Fat vs. Fruit
If you have been diagnosed with Candida, odds are you have been advised to cut all processed foods from your diet, avoid sugar like the plague (including fruit), and to consume a high-protein, high-fat diet.
While it is indeed critical to avoid sugar-laden and processed foods such as doughnuts, cakes, cookies, candy, popcorn, pastries, croissants, scones, and bagels, strictly avoiding fruit is unwarranted.
Candida does not feed on sugar unless it is from a grain such as corn or wheat, and it does not feed on natural fruit sugar.
Importantly, the natural fructose in fruit is bonded with beneficial compounds, including antioxidants, minerals, phytochemicals, and even cancer-killing micronutrients that help kill pathogens such as strep, E. coli, C. diff, staph, and viruses that are likely responsible for your increased Candida (again, increased Candida levels are actually a defense mechanism designed to prevent these pathogens from proliferating).
Thus, fruit is your anti-Candida secret weapon because it is your “broad-spectrum” anti-pathogen secret weapon!
If you’re still fearful of fruit, bear in mind that the sugars from fruit leave your stomach in about three to six minutes, and the sugar doesn’t reach the intestinal tract. What does reach the intestinal tract is the skin, pulp, and fiber in fruit, which actually helps to clear the intestines of things like SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) and other pathogen-related conditions.
Apart from fruit, other forms of processed sugar—processed cane sugar, beet sugar, agave nectar, corn syrup, etc.—do feed Candida.
Another misconception about Candida is the notion that a high-protein, high-fat diet starves Candida cells, but in reality, both protein and fat feed Candida! Even if your symptoms initially improve, ultimately this approach can backfire, as excess protein and fat in the gut provides a feeding ground for bacteria, cancer cells, viruses, etc. which can trigger Candida growth as your body attempts to combat these things.
Thus, the best approach is to eat a lower-fat diet that includes fruits and their pathogen-killing nutrients. It’s not that healthy fats (such as avocados, nuts, seeds) are bad for us, it’s just that it is best to keep fat intake in check.
This is true regardless of the type of diet you eat.
For example, if you eat a vegan diet, reduce the amount of fat you take in from things like nuts, nut butters, seeds, oils, and avocados.
If you are ovo-lacto vegetarian, cut back on eggs, dairy, nuts, seeds, oils, avocado, etc.
If your diet includes animal products, cut back to one serving of meat per day, as even lean animal protein contains some fat. In addition to reducing fat and including fruit, it is also important to consume ample quantities of leafy green vegetables such as spinach, lettuce, and arugula, and to avoid processed foods and grains.
While these recommendations may contradict everything you’ve heard about Candida, if you are one of many who has endured restrictive diets, denying yourself even a small handful of blueberries—without the reward of symptom relief—it may be time to try something new.
To learn more about Candida, check out ...
Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic
and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal.
https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/truth-about-your-candida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yfc-GLHK7Q
By the late 1990s, however, Candida diagnoses had spread from the alternative to the conventional medical world. In reality, however, few cases of Candida overgrowth are strictly a Candida problem.
Candida in and of itself is harmless. In fact, we can’t sustain life without it in our intestinal tract, and it helps protect us by consuming debris from poor quality food and toxins. In the process, this helps reduce the food supply available to truly harmful pathogens that would otherwise feed on this debris.
In other words, Candida cells intentionally consume food waste and poisons to prevent harmful bugs, such as E. coli, C. diff, and Streptococcus, from feasting on these things and building their armies. Candida can also co-occur with conditions such as Lyme disease, shingles, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, diabetes, and more.
Thus, a large build-up of Candida can serve as a warning sign that something else in your body requires attention—but Candida is often the scapegoat. For instance, a vaginal Streptococcus infection could go unnoticed by doctors, while yeast that’s also present is blamed for the patient’s symptoms. Once you put an end to the primary issue, Candida levels will naturally return to normal.
Fat vs. Fruit
If you have been diagnosed with Candida, odds are you have been advised to cut all processed foods from your diet, avoid sugar like the plague (including fruit), and to consume a high-protein, high-fat diet.
While it is indeed critical to avoid sugar-laden and processed foods such as doughnuts, cakes, cookies, candy, popcorn, pastries, croissants, scones, and bagels, strictly avoiding fruit is unwarranted.
Candida does not feed on sugar unless it is from a grain such as corn or wheat, and it does not feed on natural fruit sugar.
Importantly, the natural fructose in fruit is bonded with beneficial compounds, including antioxidants, minerals, phytochemicals, and even cancer-killing micronutrients that help kill pathogens such as strep, E. coli, C. diff, staph, and viruses that are likely responsible for your increased Candida (again, increased Candida levels are actually a defense mechanism designed to prevent these pathogens from proliferating).
Thus, fruit is your anti-Candida secret weapon because it is your “broad-spectrum” anti-pathogen secret weapon!
If you’re still fearful of fruit, bear in mind that the sugars from fruit leave your stomach in about three to six minutes, and the sugar doesn’t reach the intestinal tract. What does reach the intestinal tract is the skin, pulp, and fiber in fruit, which actually helps to clear the intestines of things like SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) and other pathogen-related conditions.
Apart from fruit, other forms of processed sugar—processed cane sugar, beet sugar, agave nectar, corn syrup, etc.—do feed Candida.
Another misconception about Candida is the notion that a high-protein, high-fat diet starves Candida cells, but in reality, both protein and fat feed Candida! Even if your symptoms initially improve, ultimately this approach can backfire, as excess protein and fat in the gut provides a feeding ground for bacteria, cancer cells, viruses, etc. which can trigger Candida growth as your body attempts to combat these things.
Thus, the best approach is to eat a lower-fat diet that includes fruits and their pathogen-killing nutrients. It’s not that healthy fats (such as avocados, nuts, seeds) are bad for us, it’s just that it is best to keep fat intake in check.
This is true regardless of the type of diet you eat.
For example, if you eat a vegan diet, reduce the amount of fat you take in from things like nuts, nut butters, seeds, oils, and avocados.
If you are ovo-lacto vegetarian, cut back on eggs, dairy, nuts, seeds, oils, avocado, etc.
If your diet includes animal products, cut back to one serving of meat per day, as even lean animal protein contains some fat. In addition to reducing fat and including fruit, it is also important to consume ample quantities of leafy green vegetables such as spinach, lettuce, and arugula, and to avoid processed foods and grains.
While these recommendations may contradict everything you’ve heard about Candida, if you are one of many who has endured restrictive diets, denying yourself even a small handful of blueberries—without the reward of symptom relief—it may be time to try something new.
To learn more about Candida, check out ...
Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic
and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal.
https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/truth-about-your-candida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yfc-GLHK7Q
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