The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity
by Donna Gates, Linda Schatz
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Author: Donna Gates, Linda SchatzEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-15
ISBN: 0963845837
Number of pages: 292
Publisher: B E D Pubns
Product features:
- Plan meals with dozens of delectable recipes, menus, and detailed shopping lists!
- Learn simple principles of proper eating and food combining to rebalance your internal ecology.
- Use effective cleaning methods to restore your system's harmony.
- Develop strategies for controlling your urge to snack and for dining away from home.
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Book Review: A Nightmare Guide to a Nightmare Problem
Summary: 2 Stars
I think this book outlines the major issues involving Candida. However, I think that the book basically SUCKS in regards to recommending a proper treatment and diet plan to treating Candida. I basically suffered with severe Candida for 18 months, and I am EXTREMELY grateful I decided to stop the tenets of her plan.
There are three majorly aggravating proponents to her recommendations. First, she recommends eating cooked grains. To someone who has a stomach swimming with yeast colonies, a few cups of grain will essentially result in a fermentation fest for the delightful organisms that will cause an acid explosion in the individual's PH. Cooked grain also has very few nutrients compared to other foods that would be more tolerated by the average infected person. Instead, I honestly think if a person needs to eat complex carbohydrates during the midst of an infection, then hummus dip, garbanzo beans, and lentils are also much easier on the PH system of a person.
I think she does not clearly communicate the importance of eating FRESH vegetables. Yeast cells thrive on decaying matter such as the freshly boiled or grilled vegetable. Additionally, almost any cooking method will cause the essential nutrients in the vegetables to vastly depreciate to a point that it probably will cause more harm than good to consume. I believe I would have never really recovered from the problem if I had continued buying frozen vegetables. I really noticed a difference in my immune system when I stopped eating cooked vegetables.
I think the most annoying part of the book is she advised eating meat and eggs during an infection. Honestly, I do not have a problem ethically with eating meat. I even think that a person can eat meat after he or she initially heals and is on the road to recovery. However, meat, even in small quantities, is a truly bad idea and will just cause the infection to spread to other areas of your body because it will fuel the yeast because it is an essentially rotting organism if you actually have a difficult candida infection. You may read books about people with other types of infections that argue that organic meat is fine and helped them, but it will not help candida.
I think most of her dairy recommendations are accurate, but I think she does not place enough emphasis on goat cheese as a healing tool. Due to the stigma this book places on the potential mold in goat cheese, I really truly doubt her personal experience in healing the infection. I have been through rounds of antifungals, and all of her recommendations make it seem as if she read all the other elementary websites about the problem and made a book that has far to many demeaning and self-serving paragraphs to sell to truly sick people looking to heal themselves. The best book I have read on the subject is Detox for Women: An All New Approach for a Sleek Body and Radiant Health in 4 Weeks by Natalia Rose. I think any book by Natalia Rose published after 2008 is really worth reading for treating the problem. I think there seems to be an endless amount of stupid advice regarding how to deal with the problem, and Gates' book contributes to the confusion.
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