Wed, Oct-14-09, 08:22
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Senior Member
Posts: 5,160
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Plan: Weston A. Price, GFCF
Stats: 165/133/132
BF:?/12.7%/?
Progress: 97%
Location: Philadelphia
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I'm very strongly against complex carbohydrates for candida. Both the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and the low-FODMAP diet have bad things to say about them.
Beans contain a galactan called raffinose, which can ferment in the gut (cruciferous vegetables have it too). That's why they give some people gas.
Peas are legumes too, but they don't seem as bad. You could experiment and see.
Beans also contain lectins. NancyLC recently posted this link:
http://www.krispin.com/lectin.html
Curiously, some candida diets (such as FODMAP) say that certain grains are fine, like white rice. Pure starch is digested quickly and some believe candida and gut bacteria don't get an opportunity to munch on it.
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