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Common protein could boost gluten-free rice bread: Study

Sep 2, 2010 Online Bakery

Common protein could boost gluten-free rice bread: Study
Hiroyuki Yano from the National Food Research Institute at Japan’s National Agriculture and Food Research Organization reports that glutathione was found to inhibit the formation of linkages in the batter called disulfide bonds, previously reported to produce a strong network and resist expansion on baking.

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What You Need To Know About Candida Albacans

Jun 4, 2010 Bakery Pastry

Candida Albacans is a type of yeast fungus which, it is thought is present in everyone, or at least a large percentage of the population. It tends to live in either the mouth, the vaginal area, digestive tract or in the folds of our skin.

Normally a good immune system along with a healthy amount of friendly bacteria (probiotics) will help to keep the fungus from growing excessively.

Unfortunately if a person’s immune system should become weakened through either illness or through excessive use of prescribed or non-prescribed drugs then this provides the Candida with a chance to grow quickly.

There are however, many ways of suppressing a Candida yeast infection from growing out of control.

Increasing the amount of probiotics in the body is one way that has shown to help. Probiotics are good bacteria that live in the gastrointestinal tract and they are part of the body’s defense against yeast infections. Should their numbers become low there is nothing to stop the Candida from multiplying.

Probiotic supplements can help to reintroduce friendly bacteria into your body. Normally probiotics come in capsule form or as a drink, although there are some probiotic foods available. They all contain a large amount of friendly bacteria.

Generally a good probiotic supplement will contain around 30 – 50 billion good bacteria and will normally be taken as part of a treatment.

Another way of ensuring that Candida is not provided with the right kind of environment to thrive in is by changing your diet.

Often a person suffering from Candida will be recommended to go on an anti-candida diet.

These diets require the elimination of foods which contain sugar this includes granulated sugar, brown sugar, honey all types of syrups (maples and molasses) as well as many fruit and fruit juices.

Also, food that contain yeast should be removed from the diet as well, which would include all bakery goods like bread, cookies, crackers, muffins and pastries.

The reason for cutting these foods out of your diet are because both sugar and yeast are ideal for helping the Candida yeast fungi to grow even more and they do not create a friendly environment for the good bacteria to prosper.

As well as a change of diet often your doctor will probably prescribe a course of treatment, which includes drugs that have anti-fungal properties.

Your doctor will often prescribe them and request you to make changes to your diet. However, if they do not it is important that you find out the cause of your candida infection, otherwise it could reoccur after the medication has run its course.

Mention to your physician that you would like to look at ways of improving your immune system, and bolstering the levels of good bacteria in your GI tract, these will both help reduce the chance of candida albacans from reoccurring.


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Candida Diet Recipes

Apr 4, 2010 Bakery Recipes

Want to get effective candida diet recipes? There are tons out there, but to get the right recipes you need to know what causes your infection, so that you’ll know which foods to exclude from your candida diet. You’ll get that information here.

You candida is caused by a yeast-like microscopic organism called Candida albicans. Believe it or not, nearly all of us has this ‘fungus’ in us, usually in our digestive tract. Now normally it doesn’t cause you any harm because your body’s beneficial bacteria keeps it under control. But when they are unable to do this, the Candida albicans ‘overgrows’ causing your candida, otherwise known as yeast infection, candidiasis or thrush.

What can cause this situation? There are quite a few things that can cause this. Here are just some of the most likely; a compromised immune system, antibiotics, diabetes, steroids, poor nutrition, poor general health, weight and stress.

So you can see that your diet can play a big part in setting the conditions for candida and, equally, to help eliminate your candida. Your diet effects your health, your weight position, your immune system and so many other things that can influence your infection.

Here is a list of foods to reduce or eliminate from your candida diet recipes…

1 – Yeast products such as bakery products, baker’s yeast, brewer’s yeast, crisps, gravy mixes, marmite, etc.

2 – White flour products, e.g. bread, biscuits, cereal, pasta, cakes, etc.

3 – Sugars that feed the yeast infection, including refined sugar, molasses, syrup, etc.

4 – Things like mushrooms, mouldy cheese, etc. which are, or, contain fungi.

5 – Prepacked and cured meats like bacon and kippers.

6 – Pickled foods like soy sauce, vinegar, pickled onions and other pickled vegetables.

And a word about fruit. There is a debate about whether fruit should be part of candida diet recipes as they contain sugar. But fresh fruits are essential for your health and immune system. So you should continue to eat fresh fruit. However, you should eliminate canned, frozen and fruit juices.

Candida diet recipes are a very good start to getting rid of your candida. But there are other natural home remedies (e.g. probiotics, garlic, apple cider vinegar, etc.), and, other underlying issues (e.g. lifestyle) to consider before you can be confident of eliminating your candida fast and for good.

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