[Closed] Mrs Ricky is on a "candida diet".....

So she's only eating moose and maple syrup?

Basically nothing,some weird stuff turned up in the cupboards,nothing I've ever heard of,stuffed peppers for the next 20 years.

Ah, the old STD diet

And did they health food shop just happen to have suitable food in stock?

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I'm on the Wetherpooms diet mid week for at least 3 days and 2 nights a week

Fruit in the day, keep hydrated
1 bottle of Moretti 660ml befor the evening meal
1 double chicken breast burger with lashings of tommy K
Eat about half the chips with plenty of salt and vinegar
1 pint of Tubourg
Sometimes 1 more Moretti. Sometimes not.

Lost 10KG in the last 10 weeks on average.

Oh, I also walk about 7 miles a day with work..and also half heatedly do one insanity workout in the hotel room. Cost coffee for breaks sometimes with a protein shake but more often than not I don't bother.

Weekends are filled with curry and too much beer usually

I've found a diet I like, can stick to and loose weight with.

Stick your fad diet. Choose one you can stick to. I am the lightest I've ever been.

Unless by "health shop" you actually mean "licensed doctor" I would take the results of any "test" they do with a very large dose of low sodium salt alternative.

My wife went on a similar diet a number of years ago on the advice of a quack and lost a lot of weight very quickly, which was bad as she had none to lose. Caveat emptor.

I just Googled the diet. On the first page of hits, the vast majority of hits are variations on "why the candida diet is a load of pish."

I'd suggest she stops listening to salesmen in health food shops, and starts eating some food. If you do want to take an allergy test, go to a doctor rather than some pseudo-scientific quack who will take your money to tell you that you're allergic to everything they don't sell (though if you were allergic to food you'd probably have noticed by now, anaphylactic shock is fun for all the family).

That'll be £50, thanks.

Currently on the generic south east asian work trip belly diet, so far dropped 3kg in a week. The down side is I might need to move a desk into the crapper so I can carry on working and get some softer bog roll.

Allergy testing by patch test by a dermatologist I'll listen to. Holding food stuffs in your have while a low current is passed through your arm is snake oil in my opinion.

nd also half heatedly do one insanity workout in the hotel room.

What's that then?

Oops! I read that as Canada diet, there was me thinking that Mrs Ricky would be feasting on pancakes bacon and maple syrup, lucky lass.

What's that then?

Like P90X but MORE INSANE!

The insanity workout is incredible; it's found a way, by exercising really, really hard in both a cardio and weight resistance sense, for only 45 minutes a day, for only two months, to get you to acheive a noticeable difference in your fitness, weight and musculature.

It's mind-blowing stuff.

How do you do an insanity workout half-heartedly?

Is that like a [i]"mentally-unsound workout"[/i] or an [i]"alright-as-long-as-he-remembers-to-take-his-pills workout"[/i]?

£50 for an allergy yes and it tells you exactly what you are lacking and what you are allergic to

I'd only buy this if I could do it over the phone....

DrP

Is that insanity workout a spoof? It is just on the edge of being plausible marketing.

Nope, it's real...

nd also half heatedly do one insanity workout in the hotel room.

How's she pronouncing candida?

Candeeda = crazy. 🙂

ricky1 - Member

£50 for an allergy yes and it tells you exactly what you are lacking

...and it turns out you're lacking sense, and £50.

So she's only eating moose and maple syrup?

Ha ha I read it as Canada diet as well, was wondering how you could lose weight eating pancakes covered in Maple syrup

God I am thick 😆

Unless she has a had a proper allergy test vis a Dr, then she has not had a allergy test.

There a loads of health food, alternative medics etc that spread rubbish stories just to sell stuff .....

Doc here.
This is BS.
But your money and god made sheep to be shorn... 😉

I am not a doctor.

the premise of the Candida diet is not that one has a food allergy, but that a crappy diet + course of antibiotics has led to an unusual and unwanted balance of bacteria / fungi (yeast, basically) in your gut - and that this can affect the way you feel.

summary of the diet: lay off the refined carbs to starve out the yeast. if you're being extra harsh on yourself you can try avoiding too much fruit.

it's not a weight loss diet, it's a 'so you want to stop feeling crap all the time?' diet.

it might well all just be rubbish, but it's a simple concept and course of action. No buying of stuff required.

in practice it means lots of veg and beans - isn't that similar to the idave diet?

beans on toast for breakfast, in.

sugar-coated chocolate-pops, and half a litre of oj, out.

Pretty sure there was an expose on TV a while back about these health shop 'allergy tests' in which the presenter went to a few shops and ended up with an allergy blacklist comprising nearly every food known to man. Total quackery.

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Wife's cousin did it...
to quote Jim Royle "Candida? My arse..."

So it's a load of trash then,didn't know that till now,I've learnt so much from you lot 🙄

Shame as you could have saved your wife £50.

Love the way you're all dismissing the allergy test without even knowing how it was conducted. 🙂

This isn't BS....it's a very real problem for a lot of people.

How do i know? The Mrs is a scientist specialising in this area. Expect to see a lot more people with this kind of problem along with auto immune diseases.... You have the absurd amount of antibiotics we are given to blame along with poor food choices to blame etc.

Ricky1, support your other half, i believe in extreme cases it can be quite debilitating, in the more common cases its like that 'brain fog' and tiredness you get after a massive sandwich!

See how she gets on.

Completely agree with Bueller. I've just got over my 4th bout of uveitis in 10 yrs, all the docs agree that it must be some kind of auto-immune problem. Can they be bothered to help me try & figure out what? Of course not.

At last, some sensible posts.

Frankly there is world of difference between an allergy test done by medical trained personel and someone in health food shop which was the case in the OP.

[i]Frankly there is world of difference between an allergy test done by medical trained personel and someone in health food shop which was the case in the OP. [/i]

Also in their ability to deal with a case of anaphylaxis should the person being tested prove to be particularly allergic to whatever's being waved at them.

Both sweeping generalisations.

possibly john but a search for 'high street allergy testing' seems to indicate a widespread lack of confidence in it's ability to diagnose true intolerance/allergy?

Exactly my point Luke. Internet search throws up facts shocker.

but even NICE (who one assumes aren't at the Daily Mail "YOU'LL DIE IF YOU TRY THIS" end of the scale when it comes to clinical evaluation of medical stuff) warn against it?

I've got an open mind, we don't know what test was carried out (or it's clinically proven accuracy) but I do tend to take the view that a shop assistant in Holland and Barrett or wherever isn't going to be the best person to carry out tests and give follow up advice etc the results of which can have life changing effects on the people being tested.

[edit] I guess it's about 'appropriateness' for me, I'm not goign to trust someone wearing a white coat just because they have Dr. in front of their name but, equally, there's sometimes too close a commercial tie between 'diagnosis' and 'treatment' in a non-clinical (maybe even non-NHS?) environment.

Who said anything about Holland & Barrett? Most of the people posting on this thread have leapt to conclusion that because a "health food shop" was mentioned it must be bollox. There's plenty of health food shops out there that have a really good quorum of well trained, extremely knowledgeable therapsists. I'll bet there's as many good therapists as thee are crap doctors 🙂

The only person that can really comment is Mrs Ricky. Does she feel any better?

john-l are these highly trained therapists trained,tested,and licensed by a government body?Do they have real clinical verification to back up their testing?

I tried to make it a 'wherever' statement and stress the lack of info on the type of test carried out.

I think there's a, imo, justifiable, scepticism around high street testing. Yes there are likely to be a number of trained, knowledgeable people doing it and as long as the tests have been through a formal, peer reviewed, series of blind tests etc and their effectiveness matches those done in a more clinical environment then there's no problem. If it's just 'give us a drop of blood and we'll tell you you're allergic to peas and beetroot' then I think people need to be cautious.

It's about the consequences, should people be cutting out whole food groups etc based on a test they have no real knowledge about? If people are informed and understand what is being done, why and are given suitable follow up care and advice (perhaps including a referral for more, errm, formal/traditional testing) then fair enough.

My wife was 'diagnosed' as a coeliac by an alternative practitioner. We had huge dietary change, other expensive treatment etc and symptoms persisted. When she left a stressful job sometime later all of the symptoms disappeared. I guess it's left me more questioning of alternate medicines as a result.

I'm not disagreeing, I just think it's sad that people are dismissing it out of hand when there are probably thousands of people that are better off. I can think of plenty of times I've come away from the doctor feeling no better & with no further clue about what's wrong.

Of course more and more people are proving sensitive to a great many things such as food stuffs and chemicals.

Coeliac disease can be diagnosed by the NHS but we're seeing more intolerances, for example gluten. My daughter has a severe reaction to some foodstuffs, the NHS Gastroenterologist prescribed AD's.

I've stopped using fluoride toothpaste and mouthwash as well as antibacterial products.

We all need to educate ourselves to make appropriate choices.

Hmmm... OP didn't actually want his question answered honestly...

To those who think this [i]could [/i]be ok - show me more than a very few Health Food shops doing proper allergy testing, not Vega or hair analysis.

And show any evidence that systemic candida (outside oculomucocutaneous candidiasis, and people with proven SCID or short bowel syndrome etc)is a genuine issue.