New to IBS diet - concern about white rice & flour: candida history
#349244 - 08/21/09 12:15 AM
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nk
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Hi, I'm brand new to this message board, and am also learning for the first time about Heather's suggestions for getting an IBS attack under control. My alarms went off when I saw: "Eat white bread and white rice"! I have a history of candida, and this suggestion goes directly contrary to the diet suggested for avoiding re-overgrowth of yeast. What to do? Very confused.
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Yeah, there seems to be this misconception that this diet is all about white bread and white flour and it is not. The diet is about eating easy to digest, SF foods exclusively for a few days/ weeks when starting, and then keeping SF in every meal thereafter. Each persons fiber tolerance is different but IF is needed and can be incorporated as soon as a little can be handled.
Going sugar and white flour free on the EFI diet is possible but takes creativity as does doing the diet GF like many do.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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If you do have candida, you really should stay off ALL grains and foods with high sugar/carb content. Eat what you can from fresh veggies with lower carb content ( no potatoes, yams, corn- actually is a grain), chicken/fish, beef, if you can tolerate it, and lower-sugar fruit choices like green apples, avocados, lemons, limes, grapefruit, fresh coconut, again only what you can tolerate. Everyone has different triggers. Do you haev a candida problem now? Have you taken antifungals (prescriptive or naturals) to help? Do you take probiotics?
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Hi Kim,
Thanks for your reply.
I'm pretty sure I have some candida going on (since I had to get 2 days of IV antibiotics + 10 days oral a year ago December). My gut had gotten pretty stable until that happened. I've tried to do an anti-candida regimen but it hasn't helped with the IBS symptoms. I'm going to be doing some thorough testing soon to see just what's goin' on in there. Hopefully that'll help guide my dietary choices.
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Thanks Little Minnie.
Here's how new I am to all this: What is "GF"? (In fact, I don't even know what EFI [diet] stands for! And I couldn't locate the glossary I thought I'd glimpsed on here.)
Thanks for your help!
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There is a link, possibly on the first page sticky notes, with all the common abreviations. GF is gluten free, EFI is Eating For IBS.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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