Top 12 Foods to Add to Your Diet!

Breakfast looks a lot different these days in our home than it used to look. For example, me and the baby shared 1 small shredded zucchini and 1/4 Mayan Sweet onion shredded and cooked in a heaping tablespoon of coconut oil. It was filling and very healthy! I am really relying on cookbooks to get me thinking outside the box that I've been in for so long and one good book/cookbook I like is "The Candida Albican Yeast-Free Cookbook". This type of diet is intended to starve the bad yeast in our bodies by not eating what they feed on, gluten, lactose, sugar, mushrooms, vinegars, etc... In this book is a list of the top super-foods to include in our diets because most of them are naturally antifungal and will kill the candida. (The list below is taken from the book) Just a tip...these foods are good for anyone who is sick with colds and flu too! These ingredients will give you a "natural healing diet" that is very nourishing. 1. Avacado - contains antifungal fatty acids and is a sugar-free fruit 2. Fresh basil - contains antifungal volatile oils 3. Grass fed beef - contains curative factors of selenium & amino acids 4. Chicken broth - supplies amino acids that help the body detoxify and is a good medium for garlic intake - take the time to read the article "Broth is Beautiful" by Sally Fallon 5. Cumin - antifungal essential oils 6. Garlic - natural antifungal agent 7. Horseradish - antiseptic enzymes and oils 8. Onion - antifungal and provides sulfur 9. Ginger root - antiseptic enzymes and oils 10. Oregano - potent antifungal activity due to antimicrobial volatile oils 11. Radishes - provide selenium, sulfur and antibiotics 12. Yogurt - providing probiotics to nourish the good gut bacteria I will add to the author's list: 13. Coconut oil- contains lauric acid which is recognized for its antibacterial, antiviral and antiprotozoal functions. I am in Phase 1 of the Whole Approach program which uses Capryllic Acid (from coconut) to kill the yeast. I make sure to include it in my baby's diet because those good fats benefit her brain development among other things! If you are unfamiliar with the health benefits of coconut oil read about it on a website called The Coconut Research Center.

Pure Water

Since starting the candida diet, I have been especially concerned with drinking pure filtered water because I am trying to get toxins out of my body not put them in while drinking 10 glasses of water a day! All of the cookbooks I have been reading with a focus on allergy sensitivities, rotation diet and anti-candida specify "filtered" water in the recipes. It has been so inconvenient to purchase distilled water at the grocery store and my Brita filter only filters out chlorine, leaving behind many toxins. Remember that chlorine is not a substance that you want to be part of your diet. I have been reading books about the relation of water to our health and was on the lookout for the best and most economical way to drink clean filtered water. Luckily, I went to an emergency preparedness seminar and attended a very informative water class! The instructor showed and discussed all types of filtration available and she recommended a carbon block system like the Multi-pure Water Filtration System. A friend of mine is a distributor and has been advising me to get one for almost 2 years so I finally did this week! If you know you need pure filtered water and you want to compare the taste of the water to what you are drinking now, she has 3 counter top units that she will loan out for a week at a time so you can taste the difference for yourself. If you purchase bottled water or replacement filters for a Brita-like system and you switch to this system you will save hundreds of dollars! They are having their first price increase in 10 years starting May 1st so get one now! Email Deanna at deanna@drinkwaterforlife.net and tell her Lucinda referred you! After reading an article today on a super bug found in water even in the United States, I feel so much better knowing that my drinking and cooking water is now safe! This was an important step in assisting my body with the detox process it is going through. I am on my way to better health one step at a time!