Re: NYTimes article on fecal implants and gut biology - here's it is

July 16, 2010

here with an update on this. I chatted with my doctor last

week and asked him again about fruit. He said he really thinks

fruit is a valuable type of food, lots of nutrients, and that he hasn't

seen good results from dropping it entirely, as in the previous statement

below from him awhile back. Now, I will say that I don't eat much

honey (not good for my hypoglycemia anyhow) and yes, I know perfectly

well it wouldn't be a good idea to just eat bananas all day, or

squash. But I eat a variety of fruit and feel a lot better with it

than without.

Before cutting out all fruit/sweet veggies, read this post from

:

" This is a continuing debate about candida and fruit. I can only

tell you what I do. I eat fruit. About six months ago my doctor decided I

should take a course of Diflucan because of the high probability I had

candida. I finally agreed, but asked him if I really had to give up

fruit, pointing out that my stomach will not accept anything but fruit

before 11:00 AM and I do have hypoglycemia and need to eat something,

even if just fruit isn't ideal. He said no, not to give it up. He told me

about a study he had read where the researchers decided to do a test on

people with candida, and the intent of the study was to determine how

much better they did without fruit. What they found was not at all what

they expected. As my doctor explained it, run of the mill candida is

fairly mild. That's what the people had going into the study. After they

gave up fruit, instead of getting better, the candida changed into a much

worse, more systemic form. He said it was like pussy cats changing into

tigers, and much harder to deal with. So his recommendation was that I

keep the fruit and just deal with the pussycats. That's what I did, and I

did agree to take the Diflucan for 4 months. I have to admit, I have

wondered if the reason some people insist their candida is so wicked and

hard to get rid of is that they did give up the fruit and got the tigers

to deal with. "

Holly

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