Modified Candida Regimen for Children Up To Age 12

EAT A VARIETY OF FOODS (Avoid daily repetition)

Many individual with yeast connected health problems are allergic to several foods.  The more frequently you eat a particular food, the greater your chances are of developing an allergy to that food.  Rotating your diet helps avoid becoming addicted (allergic) to various foods, and helps to identify foods that could be causing problems.  A strict rotation diet means that you should eat a food no more frequently than every fourth day.   We are not requiring that you follow a strict rotation, but we are stressing that you do eat a variety.

 FOODS TO AVOID

• Sugar and sugar containing foods: sugar cane & beet, honey, molasses, maple syrup, corn syrup, and any foods containing dextrose, mannitol, maltitol, xylitol, and malted products
• Yeast: regular breads and raised pastry goods or crusts.  Read all labels   Concentrated, enriched, fortified, all = yeast
• Cows milk and cheeses.  This is a very common allergy foods.  Cheeses contain a mold which adversely affects yeast sensitive individuals
• Nuts of all kinds (including peanut butter) have a mold growth. 

FOODS YOU MAY EAT

• VEGETABLES:  Any fresh or frozen (read labels for any restricted ingredients).  Only CORN should be AVOIDED.  DRESSING for salads: For a quick dressing, combine freshly squeezed lemon juice with olive oil.  Keep a small quantity in the refrigerator and add scissor-snipped parsley, chives, or mint.  It will remain fresh for a few days and will add zest to vegetables and salads.

• GRAINS:  All whole grains are allowed when choosing cereals, pastas, & yeast-free breads.  These include wheat, oat, barley, rice millet, buckwheat, or rye, as well as spelt, kamut, amaranth and quinoa.

The following are some guidelines:

• pastas: not enriched or with yeast.
• cereals: only whole grains cereals without sugar.  Slightly sweetened with fruit juice is okay
• flour tortillas make a nice sandwich wrap.
• crackers: without sugar or yeast such as "rye crisp" or "triscuits".
• baking powder biscuits
• Irish soda bread (check on sugar content
• other yeast-free bread such as spelt or rice bread found at "Fresh Fields" or health foods stores.

• FRESH FRUIT.  Allowed to have 3 servings of 3 different fruits each day.  Include a wide variety.  Treat freshly squeezed juice as a serving.

• BEANS  All varieties along with peas, other legumes

• MEATS, POULTRY AND FISH All varieties are fine.  None should be processed or smoked such as hotdogs, bologna, etc.

• WHAT TO DRINK:  Plenty of purified (not tap) water throughout the day.  This aids in flushing out the "die off" of toxins.
• Flavored seltzer water (NO sugar)
• Homemade liquid vegetable or freshly squeezed fruit juice (with no sugar added)
• Goats or soy milk, and other soy products, or rice milk
• Herbal teas (not black tea)

• MISCELLANEOUS
• Plain yogurt (with live acidophilus)
• Butter and eggs are okay
• herbs and spices
• Garlic (fresh or odorless)
• Oils: olive, sesame seed, safflower, sunflower, canolla

ABOUT CONDIMENTS

Use only very scant amounts of condiments containing vinegar or sugar (such as ketchup, mustard, pickles, mayonnaise, salad dressing, etc).  Use only if absolutely necessary to get the child to eat.