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Brenda's Candida Wellness Center
Welcome to my Candida Wellness Center. “Healthy and happy people are becoming so rare, one ought to keep a good specimen of man in a museum so that it will be remembered what he looked like.” Quoted from Nyoiti Sakurazawa. Become HealthyIf our desire is to become healthy, we will select the appropriate food for our body. This Candida Wellness Center is designed around nutrition, body type, important facts about food and how our body should be taken care of. It consists of a mish-mash of varying philosophies, some of which will contradict the other. I have recently acquired a wonderful computerized health assessment tool, called The Compass. The Compass will help you determine which health product your body needs. You can also purchase a Zyto Compass of your own. I hope you can use the information from this Candida Wellness Center to help you on your journey to lead a healthy and happy candida free life. I have always said, "as long as I learn one thing that I can use, it was worth going to that course or reading this book" ... or viewing this site on Candida and reading this lengthy page named Candida Wellness Center because it encompasses a lot of information on food and your health.
DietsFood is fundamental to our health. By choosing certain foods, we are already committing ourselves to health or disease. To become knowledgeable about Genetically Engineered Foods or Foods that are irradiated or what chemicals are being used, would help us stay healthy and keep our young families healthy. Proper foods make us strong and healthy enough to resist disease in all its forms. America is now experiencing a phenomenon unique in history. We are trying diets of all types.
and without naming them here, we have all heard of more. Even though, you may be quite happy with your present eating regime, there is always more to learn about food and our bodies. Here are some of things I like to teach at Brenda's Candida Wellness Center: How to Choose Your Foods
It is important to understand that all sicknesses arise from excess. In every case of sickness the quantity of eating should be reduced. We can be eating too much Yin foods for a Yin condition and the same for excesses of Yang. More info for Brenda's Candida Wellness Center. Cooking Suggestions for You on this Candida Wellness Center
Steaming preserves most vitamins and minerals and a good many enzymes as well, providing the process is not too long. Light sautéing in butter, olive oil or coconut oil is also an acceptable cooking method. Some vegetables are best eaten cooked. Cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts and kale contain a chemical that blocks the production of a thyroid hormone. Beet greens, spinach and chard contain oxalic acid that blocks calcium and iron absorption and irritates the mouth and intestinal tract. Raw potatoes contain a substance that can disrupt the proper function of red blood cells. Raw spinach salad and raw cabbage salad are popular but should be eaten only occasionally. Categories of Vegetables Healing FoodsAll vegetables contain good things and will fit your individual food sensitivities.Dark Green, Leafy Vegetables
Cruciferous Vegetables
Tubers
The Lily Family
Nightshade Family
Organic or vegetables grown in a chemical free environment are the best tasting. I have heard many people say, when they eat organic food, they tend to eat less than what they would have with chemically grown foods. 
Food SensitivitiesAlmost any vegetable can cause adverse and allergic reactions if eaten to excess – that is why variety is so important.Vegetables from the nightshade family may irritate arthritis and painful joints in sensitive individuals. Cruciferous veggies contain high amounts of sulphur which may cause problems for some. Vegetables from the onion family tend to stimulate the glands and therefore be avoided by those suffering from fatigue or weak adrenal function. Reheating Vegetables Here is some good advice on this candida wellness center regarding dark green leafy vegetables. Concentrated nitrites are found in dark green leafy vegetables when they are commercially grown using high nitrogen fertilizer. These nitrates may be transformed into potent carcinogens during the cooking process and in storage of cooked vegetables. It is not advisable to reheat vegetables, particularly green vegetables. Fat Soluble Vitamins Put butter on your steamed vegetables. The fat-soluble vitamins need butter so that your body utilizes the minerals. Season veggies lightly using sea salt after cooking. Whole Grains All grains contain phytic acid(an organic acid in which phosphorus is bound in the outer layer or bran. Untreated phytic acid can combine with calcium, magnesium copper, iron and especially zinc in the intestinal tract and block their absorption. This is the reason a diet high in unfermented whole grains may lead to serious mineral deficiencies and bone loss. The modern misguided practice of consuming large amounts of unprocessed bran often improves colon transit time at first, but may lead to irritable bowel syndrome. Soaking allows enzymes, lactobacilli and other helpful organisms to break down and neutralize phytic acid. The practice of soaking cracked or rolled cereal grains overnight in acidulated water (Acidulated water is water where some sort of acid is added—often lemon juice, lime juice, or vinegar) will neutralize phytic acid and improve their nutritional benefits. I used to soak raw oatmeal overnight in pure water and a drop or two of lemon juice, cover it, and in the morning mix organic raisins and organic walnuts in it, sometimes add rice milk but frequently just eat it as is. It was delicious! You could also use dates as the sweetener. The soaking neutralizes enzyme inhibitors, present in all seeds and encourages the production of numerous beneficial enzymes, including vitamins, especially B Vitamins.
Staying healthy incorporates the use of diet and exercise and how these could change your life. Read about some superfoods. Food creates your body and serves as your fuel. Daily exercise and movement is important to loosen muscles and joints, stimulate breathing, circulation and the lymphatic system. Today’s lifestyle frequently consists of...
Our daily health is affected and is linked to chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart/vascular disease and even cancer. Frank M. Miesse, PhD., has people ask him Why do we work so hard at being healthy and die so young? His response is We die at about 50 years of age and they bury us at 70 or 80, thanks to modern drugs that embalm us while we are still alive! How to Feel Better?Here are a couple of important sentences to remember. This will help you feel better, during an 'unwell' period.This Candida Wellness Center is here for you to learn some new ideas that you may be able to apply while on your pathway to wellness. Healing ModalitiesIn this section of my Candida Wellness Center is a brief description of different modalities for you to use to help you attain better health. Allopathic Medicine Allopathic means “treating sickness oppositely,”ie; giving a medicine for a symptom or illness which may counteract it by causing an opposite reaction. Western Medicine has made great advances scientifically and technologically, yet it still has some weaknesses and limitations. Western medicine has made great breakthroughs in acute care treatment and its technological advances in emergency care, it’s antibiotic development for infectious diseases and it’s surgical intervention for trauma and advanced illness. Homeopathy Homeopathic medicine applies the idea of treating ‘like with like'. This means treating someone’s condition with a substance that would cause the same symptom(s) in a healthy person. The effect of this is to undermine the illness and cause its elimination from the body. Frequently, this worsens the symptoms for a brief while, before one begins to improve. Homeopathy, uses minute and frequent doses taken over a longer period of time than allopathic drug therapy. It also takes into consideration the personality, emotional and mental condition of the individual. Benjamin Franklin said “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Prevention Prevention really involves self-education and self-awareness, being in touch with what you need. My purpose for this candida wellness center is to help you become more aware of what is available. Nutrition, Herbology and TCM all incorporate the subtleties of keeping the body finely tuned. Nutrition Food is the body‘s fuel...the quality and quantity you use makes the energy on which your wonderful body machine runs. Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals, which are all used in specific body functions. Fruits and vegetables help toward good elimination. 
Bread and cheese may be more binding and create congestion and add weight.Meats and dairy may have a congesting effect... Other congesting foods are
Sounds similar to a candida diet doesn't it? Congesting foods in large quantities can lead to stagnation and illness. Oils and butter act as lubricators, aiding the mucous membranes, intestinal elimination, joints, tendons and ligaments. Lemons Lemons have so many uses, I had to add a little section about them. They are powerful Vitamin C and are alkaline to the body. 
One of my uses for lemons is when I eat out in a restaurant, instead of ordering tea or coffee, I order hot water and I squeeze lemons into it. Seems to help with digestion too.I love lemon and dill served over my potatoes and my rice. Squirting lemon juice over cut up fresh fruit, stops it from going 'brown' which is oxidation. My Mother used to add fresh lemon juice and honey to hot water, to soothe any sore throats we had in our family. You could add it to green tea if you wish. You get added Vitamin C this way. Some people prefer lemon in their tea, rather than milk. This helps to preserve the flavanoids in the tea. Of course, anyone who is on a dairy free diet, can enjoy a cup of tea this way. You make your own lemon powder by grating the zest from the lemon. Dry the zest, by leaving it out on a platter for a few days. You can either leave it as zest or crumble the zest into a powder with your fingers or a rolling pin. Store this in an airtight bottle. Another use for lemon, is food related, but not in your food. If you use lemon essential oil on your counter top and on your stove top, it helps to remove stains and grease on the surfaces. You may have to leave it 15 minutes or so,before you rinse it off, to remove any stains from cutting boards. Everything will smell so wonderfully fresh. Herbology The original American medicine is the study of plants with medicinal properties and their actions and uses. Using herbs on the whole body will cleanse, build and balance the body over a longer period of time. Herbs have specific properties. Herbs can act as
Herbs can be used to balance certain systemic and/or specific imbalances within the body. Most herbs have multiple effects TCM – Chinese Medicine 
Traditional Chinese Medicine is thousands of years old. It ties together man/woman and nature. This harmonious communication between them gives their mutual health. I will add an entire chapter on Chinese Medicine and TCM and Candidiasis to this candida wellness center at some other time. My candida wellness center has a lot of good information for you to peruse and use to keep yourself and your family members on the road to good health. Some exciting news that I would like to share with you. There is now an acupuncture clinic in Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto. If there is any information that you would like to share with this Candida Wellness Center please go to my contact page. We'd love to hear from you. We can all benefit from valuable nutritious ideas. Iridology Iridology is a system of analyzing and caring for the body through the use of drugless and natural methods. 
Iridology is a science of reading the markings or signs in the iris of the eye.It determines whether the condition of the body in the affected organs is
It is a system that works hand in hand with natural habits of living which build health and eradicate disease. This candida wellness center is meant to be a helpful source for you in different areas of nutrition. Learning about different modalities that can assist you on your pathway to healing. I hope you find this information helpful. Come back again to this Candida Wellness Center.
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