"The diet of the average North
American consists of food that is over processed, low in fiber, and high in
refined sugar. We also consume large amounts of red meat, dairy products,
and wheat. According to a 1977 Journal of American Medical Association
article, this kind of diet results in fewer "friendly" bacteria in the
intestinal tract.
Furthermore, many of us eat too much, too often, and we mix too many
different kinds of food at the same meal.
These and other factors can cause
a thick coat of mucus and impacted food residue, which combines to form on
the walls of the large intestine.
Not only does this encrusted matter contribute to further dysfunction of the
colon, but, according to Bernard Jansen, D.C., in his boldly illustrated
book, Tissue Cleansing through Bowel Management, disease actually
begins here because toxins are absorbed to cause malnutrition of our body
cells while absorption of nutrients is prevented.
Candida albicans, a normal
inhabitant of a healthy colon, prefers to live in this toxic filth where it
is warm, putrid, and lacking in oxygen. Consequently, this family of yeast
does well in most colons. In many cases, as noted by Trowbridge and Walker
in The Yeast Syndrome, they become so prolific that they escape the
confines of the intestinal tract and cause havoc throughout the rest of the
body.
According to a research pioneer,
C. Orian Truss, MD, in a paper published in a 1978 issue of The Journal
of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Candida albicans proliferates in the
intestines because of several factors, including stress, lowered immune
system, antibiotic overuse, oral contraceptives, and use of cortisone or
prednisone.
It can change from the harmless non-invasive, sugar fermenting yeast like
organism to the mycelial, or fungal, form with long, root like structures
that can penetrate the membrane lining of the digestive tract.
If an individual can restore
proper colon hygiene, the Candida will, instead, retreat to their former
subdued state. Dr. David Soil, a University of Iowa biologist reported in a
1985 Science magazine article that Candida albicans is capable of changing
from benign to virulent and change back to benign. In many cases, when the
Candida returns to the benign form, the immune system will clear Candida
from the rest of the body.
Without paying close attention to the restoration of proper colon
cleanliness, the immune system will be forced to continually battle Candida
and its toxins.
So a clean colon is essential in
the battle against Candida, and the accumulation of filth here can be
decreased, if not eliminated, with proper dietary modifications. First,
adapt these nutritional steps:
1.
Eliminate refined sugar and refined, bleached, chemically treated flour;
2.
Eliminate meats treated with synthetic hormones or chemicals;
3.
Eliminate hydrogenated fats (such as that which exists in peanut butter,
baked goods, margarine, etc.);
4.
Reduce fats (use those rich in Omega-3 --fish and olive oils);
5.
Eat fresh and raw vegetables (40% vegetables, 30% fruit, 20% complex
carbohydrates, and 10% protein.
Eat nothing unless it will spoil
or rot, but eat it before it does so. At the grocery store, shop at the
outer fringes of the building, avoiding canned, packaged products.
Exercise regularly.
Next, eliminate colon toxicity.
For more suggestions or advice,
please feel free to email me at
Lexi, or click
here for more information.
Other informative websites:
http://www.msu.edu/user/eisthen/yeast/,
http://familydoctor.org/206.xml,
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/10956.html,
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/6895-1.asp,
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdvag.htm. |
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