Food to Eat to Prevent Yeast Infections - The Truth
There are a lot of food recommendations given to help prevent yeast infection.
However their ability to help is somewhat misleading.
Eating lots of garlic a day because it has anti-fungal properties will leave you at best, with bad breath (and still a yeast infection problem).
Yogurt is also another food recommended for yeast infections and yet does not work.
I know this, because I have tried them.
It seems ridiculous the length we will go to rid ourselves of a never-ending burden, when if we only knew the real cause of our problem we could sort it out properly without hoping one of these foods we have added into our diet will help.
Yes, diet and what you eat are important in preventing and combating yeast infections, but you won't help prevent them by adding yogurt or garlic to your diet.
Instead you need to look at your whole diet.
Yeast infections occur when you have too much fat in your diet.
On a standard American diet, 40-50% of our calories come from fat.
That is staggering.
Why does fat cause yeast infections? Candida (yeast) is an organism that occurs naturally in our bodies.
It is a life-saving organism to some extent.
Fat is a very hard to digest substance, so when we consume it, it can take 24-48 hours (or even longer) for us to fully process it and get it to our cells.
In this time it stays in the blood.
As it stays in the blood, any sugar we ingest, once absorbed into the blood itself, cannot go anywhere, because the fat is in its way.
As a result we have high blood sugar, which is dangerous to us.
The Candida eats this sugar and multiplies.
It does so to bring our blood sugar level back down to a safe level.
If this process keeps continuing we end up with an excessive amount of Candida (because it keeps consuming the sugar to help us) and a yeast infection results.
This is also the reason why getting drugs from the doctor only eradicates symptoms for a little while and you then get another yeast infection.
The underlying problem hasn't been solved.
The only way you solve it is by cutting down the fat in your diet - not by adding yogurt or garlic! A healthy level of fat intake is around 10% of your total calories.
So if you really want to rid yourself of a yeast infection or to prevent another one showing up, sort out your diet.
It works - and not just for a short period of time, but for good.
However their ability to help is somewhat misleading.
Eating lots of garlic a day because it has anti-fungal properties will leave you at best, with bad breath (and still a yeast infection problem).
Yogurt is also another food recommended for yeast infections and yet does not work.
I know this, because I have tried them.
It seems ridiculous the length we will go to rid ourselves of a never-ending burden, when if we only knew the real cause of our problem we could sort it out properly without hoping one of these foods we have added into our diet will help.
Yes, diet and what you eat are important in preventing and combating yeast infections, but you won't help prevent them by adding yogurt or garlic to your diet.
Instead you need to look at your whole diet.
Yeast infections occur when you have too much fat in your diet.
On a standard American diet, 40-50% of our calories come from fat.
That is staggering.
Why does fat cause yeast infections? Candida (yeast) is an organism that occurs naturally in our bodies.
It is a life-saving organism to some extent.
Fat is a very hard to digest substance, so when we consume it, it can take 24-48 hours (or even longer) for us to fully process it and get it to our cells.
In this time it stays in the blood.
As it stays in the blood, any sugar we ingest, once absorbed into the blood itself, cannot go anywhere, because the fat is in its way.
As a result we have high blood sugar, which is dangerous to us.
The Candida eats this sugar and multiplies.
It does so to bring our blood sugar level back down to a safe level.
If this process keeps continuing we end up with an excessive amount of Candida (because it keeps consuming the sugar to help us) and a yeast infection results.
This is also the reason why getting drugs from the doctor only eradicates symptoms for a little while and you then get another yeast infection.
The underlying problem hasn't been solved.
The only way you solve it is by cutting down the fat in your diet - not by adding yogurt or garlic! A healthy level of fat intake is around 10% of your total calories.
So if you really want to rid yourself of a yeast infection or to prevent another one showing up, sort out your diet.
It works - and not just for a short period of time, but for good.
