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Breaking The Carb Craving Habit

If you have a powerful craving for carbohydrates like chips, French fries, and white bread, there could be several things going on.

The first thing to identify is, does the food that you crave contain a lot of sweet or a lot of salt?

If you are craving salty carbohydrates, I would want to know if you’re drinking enough water. Probably not is my guess.

And the second thing I would want to know if if you are calcium deficient?

The third possibility is that you have adrenal fatigue or another type of adrenal problem.

Let’s remove those three possibilities.

Water has a tremendous regulatory effect on the gut. It helps the body immensely to improve digestion. Water also helps with the movement of food through the body and appetite regulation and control;

Water also influences various hormones that help regulate appetite as well as serotonin production and release.

I have found that regularly drinking a few glasses of water throughout the day can tremendously reduce carb cravings.

A lot of people who love bread and cookies and cakes and muffins often will have coffee or beverages also that contain sugar.

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They become dehydrated because they don’t have enough water in their diet.

Your urine should be relatively clear. If it is dark yellow or strong smelling, there is a good chance that you are dehydrated.

Next is calcium deficiency. If you crave French fries or potato chips, it is quite common to have a calcium deficiency. By increasing the calcium-containing foods in your diet, you can reduce your cravings for carbohydrates.

Some of my clients who started to drink unpasteurized cow’s milk began to notice that they didn’t crave carbs anymore.

A long time ago, people had adequate amounts of magnesium and calcium in their diet. Back then, the milling process and the production of grains was different; the soils were better quality; we weren’t using fertilizers that were stripping minerals from food.

Today, people often lack calcium and magnesium in their diets. The result is all sorts of cravings and desires for highly process foods.

Some foods that are a good source of calcium include sesame seeds, broccoli, and sardines.

Adrenal fatigue can also trigger carbohydrate cravings.

Many people today have problems with stress. Stress can put a lot of strain on the adrenal and thyroid glands.

The adrenal glands make the hormone aldosterone. Aldosterone regulates potassium and sodium. If the adrenal glands are producing enough aldosterone, sodium levels can drop because of excessive excretion of salt.

When sodium levels go down, cravings for salty foods is trigger. It can also leave people feeling weak and dizzy.

Potassium and sodium imbalance can cause muscle weakness and cardiac problems like arrhythmias.

If you have those types of symptoms and you are also craving salt, have your adrenal function checked out.

If you have carbohydrate cravings, it makes sense to address dehydration, mineral deficiency, and adrenal function. Making sure you are living a low-stress life is also critical.

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Weight Loss Is Common With Yeast Infection Treatment

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After treating countless candida patients over the years I discovered that when many adopt a strict anti-candida diet, they invariably loose weight. I often get emails from patients about their weight-loss concerns on the anti-candida diet, and I reassure them – it is nothing to worry about because their weight will stabilize at its ideal weight over time. Most of us are too heavy and eat too much food anyway, and that’s a fact. The ideal percentage of body fat is about 12 to 15 percent for men and roughly 18 – 20 percent for females. Remember, if you do not stay active or exercise as you age you will loose muscle size and this is often replaced by fat.

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Losing weight is a struggle for most of us, but NOT for those on the anti-candida diet. This is simple to explain, the key foods that the yeast thrives on are the key foods that allow you to gain weight in the first place – the carbohydrates and sweet foods.  And these are often the foods and drinks that many of us are addicted to and find it hard to reduce or eliminate from our diets – bread, alcoholic drinks, candies, cakes, cookies, soda drinks, take-away foods, etc. I’ll bet that when you look at the anti-candida diet you will be thinking: “But those are some of my favorite foods, how am I ever going to avoid them in my diet”. This is a key reason why you have not eliminated candida from your digestive system until now – you probably never tried hard enough or long enough to eliminate them.

I’m not at all suggesting for one moment that all overweight persons have a candida yeast infection (although half probably do to some extent), I am suggesting that many people who are overweight would benefit from my candida diet. The diet is very healthy and you will lose weight if you are overweight, there is no doubt about it. The bonus is that as your weight drops off, your metabolism will begin to normalize and so will your appetite.

Eat small amounts of whole grains daily to avoid weight-loss

Some people who are losing weight too rapidly on the anti-candida diet will benefit in eating small amounts of safe grains like quinoa, brown rice, millet or buckwheat to curb their weight loss. They should aim for ¼ to ½ cup per day initially, and then increase to suit if they don’t aggravate. This will also make their diet more interesting and help to avoid boredom. Many people will want to lose some weight anyway, and for those that weight gain is not necessary (and especially where weight loss is desired) then I’d recommend you follow my dietary recommendations carefully, and these include taking all grains out initially and slowly adding them back into your diet also taking CanxidaRemove on daily basis (recommended dosage) you can get Canxida at Canxida.com

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