Candida and Sugar

Why all the concern about sugar? The majority of health professionals, medical doctors and researchers are in agreement that the single most important factor in Candida overgrowth is overuse of sugar. The abuse of this substance is closely followed by the exploding overuse/misuse of antibiotics and other immune suppressing substances.

How widely used is sugar? Various estimates range from 120 pounds to 150+ pounds annually for every person in the United States. This is roughly 100 times the amount that was used by our grandparents and great-grandparents 100 years ago. Our bodies were never intended to get sugar in the amount and in the refined form as we do. Originally all our sugar came from the eating of fruits and vegetables, plus a small amount of honey. How greatly this has changed!

The United States has consumed one-fifth of the world's production of sugar every year but one since the Civil War. . . Through war and peace, depression and prosperity, drought and flood, sugar consumption in America has risen steadily. It is doubtful there ever has been a more drastic challenge to the human body in the entire history of man. (Dufty, op cit.)