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From a popular health and wellness blogger and author, an expansive, programmatic approach to following an anti-candida diet--in three stages and 100 recipes.

Candida is a type of yeast that grows in the human body. An overgrowth of it has been found to be at the root of health problems, from chronic fatigue and digestion disorders to skin conditions and allergies; health professionals are calling it a hidden epidemic. One of the main instigators of candida overgrowth is sugar, which the average American consumes at the rate of more than 70 pounds per year.

Living Candida-Free offers a complete exploration of this condition and an expansive approach for anyone wishing to follow an anti-candida diet. A comprehensive guidebook filled with practical, realistic strategies for living a life free of refined sugar, Living Candida-Free includes a three-stage program; tips on how to transition to eating the anti-candida way; information on herbal supplements and treatments; a full list of ingredient substitutions; and delicious, satisfying recipes that anyone can prepare.

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"Savvy Vegetarian, 1/24/15
"I recommend Living Candida Free for everybody, healthy or not, vegan or not. If you don't have candida, this book will keep you from ever getting it. If you have just a bit of candida, it will help you restore balance and avoid a lot of misery. If you do have full on candida, this book, Living Candida Free, could help save your life."

Vegan Culinary Crusade, 2/2/15"Ricki's talent for recipe development is astounding. She works within all of the parameters necessary to live candida-free yet offers a delicious array of recipes for every stage of the ACD [anti-candida diet] plan . . . . this book is patient and honest and full of answers. It is everything you need when you want to stop suffering but know it is a journey to get to health."

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Ricki Heller is an author, blogger, and instructor who has worked with food--from running a catering business to teaching cooking classes to writing cookbooks--for over 20 years. Her blog was nominated as a "Best Healthy Living Blog" by TheKitchn in 2013; for SHAPE magazine's "Best Healthy Eating Blog" in 2011 and named one of Saveur.com's "Sites We Love" in 2009. Her articles and recipes have appeared in Clean Eating magazine, Living Without Magazine, Canadian Living Magazine, The Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, Zoomer.com, Tonic Toronto and others. An Associate Editor for the new Simply Gluten-Free magazine (vegan cuisine section), Ricki's work has also appeared on The Huffington Post and KrisCarr.com. She shares recipes for sugar-free, gluten-free, allergy-friendly whole foods for an anti-candida lifestyle on her website.

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Andrea Nakayama, CNC, CNE, CHHC is a functional nutritionist, health writer, educator, and the founder of Replenish PDX and Holistic Nutrition Lab.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Lifelong Books; Illustrated edition (January 27, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0738217751
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0738217758
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.69 x 0.69 x 9.61 inches

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Ricki Heller is the voice behind the popular food blog RickiHeller.com, which celebrates sugar-free, gluten-free, allergy-friendly whole foods through a low-glycemic, vegan lifestyle. With over 600 foolproof recipes, humorous anecdotes and comments from two chatty canines, the blog illustrates Ricki's philosophy that "a healthy lifestyle CAN be sweet." In 2011, Diet, Dessert and Dogs (the blog's name then) was nominated for the SHAPE Magazine "Best Healthy Eating Blog" and as a "Best Healthy Cooking Blog" by The Kitchn in 2013.

Ricki's latest book, Living Candida-Free was published in 2015 and became an instant Amazon best seller (NOTE: as of 2021, THE PUBLISHER HAS CHANGED THEH BOOK'S FORMAT SO THE PHOTOS ARE IN BLACK AND WHITE ONLY. AS THE AUTHOR, RICKI HAD NO SAY IN, OR CONTROL OVER, THIS DECISION. Everything else in the book remains the same). Her first book, Sweet Freedom: Desserts You'll Love without Wheat, Eggs, Dairy or Refined Sugar caught the eye of Ellen DeGeneres and is one of only three cookbooks recommended on DeGeneres's website. Ricki has also written three anti-candida ebooks.

After being diagnosed with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), Ricki first began to change her eating habits and realized how much the food we eat influences or health. Later, after suffering from candida and following an anti-candida diet for more than 3 years, she determined to learn more about the healing power of foods and obtained her Registered Holistic Nutritionist designation.

These days, Ricki still shares her recipes through her blog and books, and coaches women individually to help them stick with their healthy eating. She is also a fiction writer who is currently working on a novel.

Ricki has worked as an Associate Editor for the hugely popular Simply Gluten-Free magazine, for which she wrote a regular column. Her articles and recipes have also appeared in Clean Eating magazine, Living Without Magazine, Allergic Living magazine, Canadian Living Magazine, VegNews.com, The Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and others.

Ricki's television appearances include CBS News (Chicago), Canada AM, CityTV's Breakfast Television, Global Morning Show, as a featured guest on York Region Living, In the Know, and as a regular guest on Rogers' daytime (York Region and Toronto). She was also a speaker at the inaugural Nourished conference in Chicago in 2012.

Ricki lives and works in Vaughan, Ontario, with one husband and two lab-border collie cross dogs.

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Loved it, just what I needed

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I'll be buying both the print and the Kindle version of the book. I liked the recipes and the information provided in the book.

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Room for layout improvement and a unique taste to the food.

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I found this book to be a little to no more helpful than her website. You could probably get most of the information and some recipes from her site. I think my biggest complaint was the layout of the book. As a working mom who still needs to cook a separate meal for my family, I didn't find this layout and flow at all helpful. I can see if you don't have kids or if you are only making these meals for yourself that this flow would be ok. I'm pressed for time and have a lot more to cook after these meals.

1. I feel this book was laid out in Word and bounded as a book. There's no design to it, no breaking things apart, and no color coding. The flow is always a brief description, then the ingredients, then the steps, and then the notes. There are page breaks in the middle of the recipes. It makes it awkward for reading while cooking. The "notes" are always at the bottom. Never close to the asterisk. Yes, a minor thing but you're also flipping back and forth to read due to the page breaks. It's hard to read and work with a cook book like this when there are sooo many good cookbooks out there that break things apart and make them visually pleasing and easy to scan.

2. A meal plan is provided but no shopping list. How great would it be just to rip that page out and go shopping without spending a good chunk of time reading through all those recipes?

3. A meal prep cheat sheet would be awesome! As someone who doesn't soak and dry my nuts and legumes, I wasn't fully prepared for this. I'd like to see more instructions on the meal plans that say, "You'll be eating 3 servings of x so start soaking these on this day so you're ready to cook right away!"

4. I don't feel this has been updated with products that have come on the market since it's publication in 2015 nor are there product substitution ideas.

5. I never felt full unless I ate a ridiculous amount of food and the taste was always very off for me. I didn't come from a SAD diet, so it wasn't that I was missing the taste of highly processed food and sugar, I was eating Paleo before this and the only thing I cut out was meat and fruit. After 10 days on the Vegan track I had to add meat back in which I know she stated was ok to do.

Overall it's an ok book with lots of room for layout improvement to make it easier for those adapting to some new ways of cooking. I am truly impressed with her recipe testing and the things that she uses to make dishes. I'd read through some of them and think there was no way that would work and it does. Ricki is a true recipe creator and that's really impressive to me.

I'm not sure I'd recommend this to others. I took the principles she taught and found other paleo authors I liked and knew I liked the taste of their food and adapted. It wasn't too hard to adapt, I just had to know which ingredients I had to omit from the recipes and make it work.

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FABULOUS book!

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Buying Ricki Heller's book Living Candida Free and joining her Sweet Life community was the single best thing I have ever done for my health. After cooking for 4 boys for over 20 years, I was burned out and decided I was going to go the route of very simple meals. Many of those meals were to grab a fast (organic, but still processed) veggie burger or something similar. Recently, I became very sick to the point of lying on the couch and watching a movie was a huge effort! After 5 weeks of being sick, I went to my ND and she diagnosed Candida and suggested I go on the "Anti-Candida Diet". After looking at all the things I couldn't have, I was despondent. Seriously, "This was NOT going to be fun AT ALL", I thought. I went online and looked at the different books on this diet. After reading the reviews on the books, I decided to buy Living Candida Free because many people said it was EASY to understand. (And, it *definitely* was!) At the same time, I joined Ricki's group, The Sweet Life. There, I found support not only from Ricki, but also from a group of people that were going through the same process as I was. Best of all, when you join the group you have access to TONS of extra recipes.

I started making recipes from the book, followed the diet strictly, and within one week I was feeling AMAZING!!! I could not believe the difference in just one week! Three weeks after starting the diet, I jump out of bed, can't wait to start cooking and have more energy than I have had in years! The biggest thing is that I feel I am eating better than I have in my life with incredible tasting meals! I don't feel I am being deprived of anything at all. In fact, my body is responding so positively to this way of eating, I can't imagine going back to processed foods and sugary desserts. I am slowly making my way through the recipes and OMG are they DELICIOUS!!! Pizza? It's in there. "Chocolate" pudding? It's in there. "Sun dried" tomatoes? Ketchup? Cookies? It's ALL there!!! THANK YOU, Ricki Heller, for writing this book and others, and for your amazing Sweet Life group! You have changed my life for the better!!

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An incredible cookbook and resource for "Living Candida-Free"

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2018

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This is an amazing book and I'd highly recommend it to anyone dealing with candida. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book isn't just a cookbook (although I would have been fine if it had been). In addition to the great recipes, the book touches upon a variety of information regarding candida (what it is, how to best fight the condition, how to deal with various cravings that might occur once switching to an ACD, etc.)

The author has made what seemed like an impossible feat (switching to an anticandida diet) possible in my life. I really appreciate Dr. Heller writing about her own personal stories and struggles amongst all of the great information she has provided. Oh, and let me take a second to simply talk about the recipes. My mouth literally salivates after reading each one!

Thank you, Dr. Heller for all that you do. You are amazing.

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Delicious recipes!

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Wow! This has been such an encouragement since I have been diagnosed with Candida and put on a strict diet. My first weeks trying to do the diet without this recipe book were very hard - I had very little ideas and often was left eating raw vegetables and meat, meat, meat. This recipe book is incredible, her recipes are so delicious, there are some I would cook even if I didn't have to! They do look overwhelming at first with lots of weird ingredients but believe me it is worth it, and your body will feel so much better for eating this way. Among my favorites are the granola recipe, the mojito smoothie, and the cauliflower and garlic soup! If you are considering doing the candida diet and are in love with sugar, I highly recommend this cookbook as a way to get you through the rough beginning and eating your way with delicious savory and sweet recipes.

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Elissa

good for vegans

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on April 22, 2015

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this book is good if candida is your only problem,if you have other issues well then maybe not.I have severe histamine and oxalate problems ,they may be caused by candida so these recepies aren't suitable for me as they are loaded with oxalate and histamine.I have to tweak them a lot to be able to use any of them,.BUT the recepies are all lovely and look nice but way too many ingredients so no simple recepies but worth the effort if you have the time,!The author knows her stuff and some very good info in there that I haven not seen in other books.

Helen

Amazing!

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What I love about this book is the conversion/substitute advise. Meaning, the information in this book helps you take a regular recipe and convert it into an appropriate Anti-Candida diet recipe. I would recommend this book not only to Candida suffers but anyone wanting to improve overall health in their gut. This book is a great practical guide to better health through diet.

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Helped me understand the process of candida in my body ...

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on December 9, 2015

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Helped me understand the process of candida in my body and the dietary information is very helpful and I already have had positive results especially in eliminating wheat from my diet.

Murdo30

Excellent notes to help people needing to deal with Candida

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 1, 2018

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Excellent notes to help people needing to deal with Candida. Only criticism is that there are very few pictures of recipes.

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Best healing diet Ive ever tried.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 25, 2022

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I love the receipes in this book, so easy to follow and taste so great, it dosn't feel like I am on a restrictive diet at all. In just 6 weeks my gut and skin has really started healing and the improvement in my quality of life is amazing. I am sticking with the Stage 1 diet for another 6 weeks and then I will move onto Stage 2 and like the writer suggest I will follow a version of this diet for the rest of my life, which I am happy to do as I love the food. I feel like I am eating, feeling and looking better than ever. Thank you so much for writing this book and sharing your experience with others.

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