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Coping With Candida Cookbook

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I have been on an anti-candida diet for 5 months so far. I have purchased 4 different cookbooks on the subject and find that this book is the one I go to the most often for ideas, info and recipes. Dr. Rockwell has written a most versatile book, offering creative ideas that I can work into my own lifestyle and not just "her rules" or strict guidelines as other cookbooks do. She has menu plan suggestions, "brown bag" & snack ideas, as well as food allergy info. When you are ready to add grains back into your diet, she tells you which order to add them back in from the least to the most allergy-producing types. She also offers her newsletter at the end of the book which keeps one updated about the Candida problem. In addition to her web site she refers one to sources for special foods which are not easily found at the local grocery store. Second to her book, I would recommend Gail Burton's book, The Candida Control Cookbook. I have lost 20 lbs. since starting this diet and am feeling much better! Whatever cookbook one uses, consistency with the diet is the key to ridding your body of too much yeast!

I have known and recommended this book for more years than I care to remember. It gives a clear system for fighting systemic yeast infection, often associated with food allergies, using food.

I honestly had high hopes for this book based on some of the reviews. However, the recipes in the book are not ones I would use. There are a few - but not many. The educational part of the book is helpful, but I found the Candida Albicans Yeast-Free Cookbook to have better and more recipes to use. I think all of the diets go overboard. Not one doc can seem to agree exactly HOW much to avoid and what to avoid. Some docs do not even believe it is possible to have systemic yeast overgrowth. After being on the diet now for 3 weeks - I can see a difference in how I am feeling. Maybe it is just all the fresh veggies, meat, lack of sugar and junk, no bread that is making me feel a bit better - but whatever it is... I'll take it ;-)
If you want to get the book for nutrition info and educational purposes, this IS a good book for that (although I feel a tad strict) - recipes??? Not so much, at least not for us... Plain, bland, and unappetizing