An effective Candida diet is a process by which Candida albicans cells are cleansed from the body.

You’ll never cleanse them if you keep feeding them.

While there some “grey area foods” that many debate on whether or not they cause yeast infections, there are some foods that never should be eaten.

These foods will always railroad your efforts to eliminate Candida overgrowth.

When my chronic yeast infection problem began my doctor advised that I eat yogurt daily.

I am vegan and she advised that as long as it had live active cultures soy yogurt is fine. After reading the mass of information available online, I’m still confused…

Should I be eating any soy products? Is my soy yogurt breakfast helping or hurting me?

Soy products can be used as part of a chronic yeast infection eliminating diet, but a few precautions should be followed.

Many soy products have added sugar so be on the lookout for that. Also, be aware of how the product is processed. If it has a lot of additives and preservatives, then it’s probably not a good idea.

As far as probiotics is concerned, a better product for vegans would be coconut kefir. Kefir has cultures that actually colonize in the human body, while soy yogurt cultures don’t.

Also, coconut products have natural anti-fungal properties as well. You can buy coconut kefir from health food stores or make your own cheaply by buying a starter culture and then just keep it going indefinitely by adding new coconut milk to the existing culture and allowing it to culture the new milk.

I think replacing soy yogurt with coconut kefir will allow for greater success in eliminating chronic yeast infections naturally.

A question that a lot of people ask is whether or not a Candida Diet should be low in carbohydrates (carbs) or if carbs feed yeast cells.

I think that carbs don’t have to be eliminated, but people do need to be smart as to the way they eat carbs and which type of carbs are consumed. First of all, it’s important to understand the basic biology of Candida albicans cells. These one celled organisms can only digest simple carbs like sugars, but not complex carbs such as those found in other carb dense foods.