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Dates and Candida: Is It Okay To Eat Dates?

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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What works for one does not necessarily work for another. Once you recover you should be able to eat small amounts of dried fruits. But be careful, lots of sugar in dried fruits! You are better eating fresh fruits. 

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Greetings! Eric Bakker, from New Zealand. 

Now, here's a very interesting question, well not a question, it's a comment from a subscriber called Jordan Snyder. And Jordan is saying, "I've tried to find your opinions on dates. I have a mended gut, not totally devoid of IBS, but I've eaten 6 lbs of dates over the last two months and all I've experienced is fantastic things. Can you do a video on your thoughts, clinical experiences on dates? Big love from Jordan."

Well, Jordan, thanks so much for the comment. Dates are fine to eat if you've got a healthy digestive system like me. But one thing I want you to bear in mind with dates, they can contain up to 60% sugar. So, dates are one of the highest sugar-containing of all dried fruits. Dried fruit's a generally big no-no with any kind of digestive problem, and we're talking raisins, sultanas, dates, figs, all those kinds of foods.

When your digestion improves, and it improves a lot, there's no reason why you can't add a small amount of dried fruit here or there. Figs and dates are probably the better ones to eat because of their very powerful nutritional content. I tend to be more cautious with sultanas and raisins and currants though, but yeah. 

No, that's fine. I mean, if you are feeling perfectly okay eating 6 lbs of dates, I don't know whether it's a day or a week or a month, but I'm quite happy with that if your bowel motions are fine, your digestion appears to be okay, you're not really having a lot of symptoms provoked by the dates, then I can't see why dates really would be a problem.

So, my thoughts on it: if you do okay on something, you can consume it okay in moderation but you need to be careful on the quantities you eat, because it sounds like a lot of dates that you're eating. When I was traveling in outback Australia and they grow date palms there in the Northern Territory, I tried fresh dates and they were fantastic to eat. Dried dates from the supermarket that have been sitting on a shelf for six months are probably crap, so there's a big difference in variance in fruits and dried fruits as well; fresh as opposed to something that's sat on a shelf for a long time.

So, it depends on the quality. Depends on the quantity you eat. And it also depends on the state of your digestive system when you're eating that particular food. I want you to remember one thing: there are no rules. You make the rules as you go along for yourself, just be careful of what people say. But obviously, if the food disagrees with your digestive system and you get a lot of bloating and gas when you eat the dates, you should avoid them until you feel a lot better. And for those folks who want to introduce dates into their diet, I would say wait until you've got good bowel motions, until you're functioning reasonably well. If a stool test has revealed Candida or parasites or bad bacteria, you want to avoid dates at all costs because you'll only feed those guys up. 

So, that's my take on it. Thanks for the question!

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