Re: Avoiding yeast infections

[Guest guest]

Wow, Carol, i am impressed with your " mincing " and eating straight

Garlic. I love garlic too, but could not even imagine doing that!! I

have taken the non-odoress garlic pills in the past, when they were

being advertised as increasing your immunity. Did not seem to help

mine. If it helped me at all, it is becasue I had such a bad garlic

smell, that no one would come near me, so I did not get anyone's

germs!!! I know that they are being advertised as heart healthy too.

> Haven't seen anything on this lately, but thought I'd toss out the

info I

> just picked up from the 11/02 issue of " Taste for Life " (yeah, I

know, I'm a

> little behind in my reading).

>

> Prevention of yeast infections is greatly aided by a diet with

little to no

> sugar or refined carbohydrates. No duh !

>

> Studies show that a cup of yogurt a day with live cultures can

reduce the

> number of yeast infections one may get.

>

> And my favorite (I'm SUCH a raw garlic fan): garlic extracts have

been show

> to inhibit the growth of candida by blocking its lipd production.

(Since I

> started mincing a clove of raw garlic and swallowing the bits with

fluid

> daily, about 10 years ago, I have had not one yeast infection).

>

> Note that all the above focus not on treatment of the pesky

problem, but on

> creating a climate in the body that's just plain inhospitable to

the fungus.

>

> Carol A

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Wow, Carol, i am impressed with your " mincing " and eating straight

Garlic. I love garlic too, but could not even imagine doing that!! I

have taken the non-odoress garlic pills in the past, when they were

being advertised as increasing your immunity. Did not seem to help

mine. If it helped me at all, it is becasue I had such a bad garlic

smell, that no one would come near me, so I did not get anyone's

germs!!! I know that they are being advertised as heart healthy too.

> Haven't seen anything on this lately, but thought I'd toss out the

info I

> just picked up from the 11/02 issue of " Taste for Life " (yeah, I

know, I'm a

> little behind in my reading).

>

> Prevention of yeast infections is greatly aided by a diet with

little to no

> sugar or refined carbohydrates. No duh !

>

> Studies show that a cup of yogurt a day with live cultures can

reduce the

> number of yeast infections one may get.

>

> And my favorite (I'm SUCH a raw garlic fan): garlic extracts have

been show

> to inhibit the growth of candida by blocking its lipd production.

(Since I

> started mincing a clove of raw garlic and swallowing the bits with

fluid

> daily, about 10 years ago, I have had not one yeast infection).

>

> Note that all the above focus not on treatment of the pesky

problem, but on

> creating a climate in the body that's just plain inhospitable to

the fungus.

>

> Carol A

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 2/25/2003 12:20:09 PM Central Standard Time,

vickilines@... writes:

> Wow, Carol, i am impressed with your " mincing " and eating straight

> Garlic. I love garlic too, but could not even imagine doing that!! I

> have taken the non-odoress garlic pills in the past, when they were

> being advertised as increasing your immunity. Did not seem to help

> mine. If it helped me at all, it is becasue I had such a bad garlic

> smell, that no one would come near me, so I did not get anyone's

> germs!!! I know that they are being advertised as heart healthy too.

> --------------------------------

>

> Please note that I am NOT EATING the garlic, as in chomp, chew, swallow!!

> I'm not that fond of the taste of raw garlic, to begin with, and like you

> say, the garlic smell would ward off anyone. I down the little minced-up

> bits like I would pills, with my protein shake, and there is NO garlic

> smell this way. I have breathed directly into people's faces a number of

> times after taking garlic this way and asked them if they smell anything;

> the answer has always been " no. "

>

> I am not surprised that the garlic pills didn't help you at all. There are

not any that I know of on the market that carry the punch of the " real thing "

i.e. raw garlic. And of course, there IS a reason why they make the odorless

pills, lol. Don't know why, tho, swallowing a non-odorless garlic pill would

give you garlic breath while swallowing minced raw garlic (without chewing)

does not do the same thing. Maybe it has something to do with the processing

involved in making the pills.......

Carol A

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 2/25/2003 12:20:09 PM Central Standard Time,

vickilines@... writes:

> Wow, Carol, i am impressed with your " mincing " and eating straight

> Garlic. I love garlic too, but could not even imagine doing that!! I

> have taken the non-odoress garlic pills in the past, when they were

> being advertised as increasing your immunity. Did not seem to help

> mine. If it helped me at all, it is becasue I had such a bad garlic

> smell, that no one would come near me, so I did not get anyone's

> germs!!! I know that they are being advertised as heart healthy too.

> --------------------------------

>

> Please note that I am NOT EATING the garlic, as in chomp, chew, swallow!!

> I'm not that fond of the taste of raw garlic, to begin with, and like you

> say, the garlic smell would ward off anyone. I down the little minced-up

> bits like I would pills, with my protein shake, and there is NO garlic

> smell this way. I have breathed directly into people's faces a number of

> times after taking garlic this way and asked them if they smell anything;

> the answer has always been " no. "

>

> I am not surprised that the garlic pills didn't help you at all. There are

not any that I know of on the market that carry the punch of the " real thing "

i.e. raw garlic. And of course, there IS a reason why they make the odorless

pills, lol. Don't know why, tho, swallowing a non-odorless garlic pill would

give you garlic breath while swallowing minced raw garlic (without chewing)

does not do the same thing. Maybe it has something to do with the processing

involved in making the pills.......

Carol A