I started juicing to fix my candida and parasite problems, which are now back to candida, parasites are gone! ( that was a 2 year process) I am getting ready to order the book: The Juice Ladies Guide to Juicing for Health by Cherie Calbom.
She herself was sick for years and doctors just couldn't help, and so she began juicing and saved her own life. It's a very informative cook book about all types of illnesses and ailments that truly help the body fight without medicine. I know it can take more time and planning, but like with anything else, once you get the hang of it, it becomes much easier. The hard things are never quick, but usually the most beneficial.
So you ask what is Candida??? It is yeast that occurs naturally in the digestive tract, it is harmless in small amounts, but when we eat to much in the way of breads, sugars, fruits, etc... we can allow the yeast to grow and take over our bodies causing, rashes, allergies, aching joints, headaches, weight gain, mood swings, anxiety, gas, flatulence, bloating, dizziness, food cravings, and even more painful PMS symptoms for women (you get the picture). It doesn't do anything good for our bodies. The list of problems can go on for days.
You would be amazed at how many people suffer from this and don't realize it. But think about how we eat... We have fast food, everything processed and full of sugars that our body was never made to process correctly. The candida grows and attached to organs, flows through our blood stream and begins to shut down the body and the immune system is compromised.
I grew up eating meat and potatoes, with some sort of bread at dinner most nights. Also, processed snacks and not enough living foods. The only place we should shop in the grocery store is the outside of the store. it is where all the living whole foods are, while the processed food fill up the other 85% of the store.
So how can you tell if you have it? If you go to a more comprehensive website and see that you have many of these symptoms, change your diet for 2 weeks and see how you feel. Changing your diet means cutting out all things that turn to sugar in the body. You may have uncomfortable die off symptoms (possibly flu like symptoms), but it's OK, it means you are ridding yourself of the excess candida. If you don't feed the candida it cannot survive and will leave the body.
I know this sounds like no fun (which at times it isn't), but once I have it under control, I can have different foods and desserts once in a while with no problems, so don worry :)
PS. Another discovery that was interesting, you know those floaters you get in your eye sometimes that the doctor says have to go away on their own and there is nothing they can do about it??? It could be due to candida build up in the body!
