Can people on a yeast-avoidance diet eat unleavened matzohs?

"may be a cause of arthritis (which only starts showing up in human skeletons after the switch to agriculture)"

Well, that convinces me. I'll guess I'll be switching to a nut, berry, and grub diet so I can live in perfect health into my nineties, like cavemen did.

The yeast may be killed at 400, but what about all the chemicals that the yeast produced?

That article also makes no mention of the fact that Cordain is one of the major backers of paleodiet.

From what I know of Cordain I know that this article left out his accusations that wheat/milk/soy/corn, which came into the human diet (for wheat) 10,000 years ago, (for corn 500? years ago?, 10,000 for North American Natives, for Soy 1000 years ago) may be a cause of arthritis (which only starts showing up in human skeletons after the switch to agriculture) and various other diseases.

Yeast infections are a fashionable villain in alternative medicine circles these days.

I bake bread at about 400F.

I think acne is most closely associated with testosterone.

Uhh, kranbot, how much yeast remains viable after bread has been baked at >300F?

Edited by author 12-06-2002 12:17 PM
I obviously am no scientist, but I'm ready to agree with the study's findings. I'm sure no one wants to know about my personal history, so I'll skip that. But, I'm convinced that acne is connected to systemic yeast overgrowth (yeast is obviously a big component of bread). The enormous amount of refined sugars we eat (in chocolate, in bread, in corn syrup, etc.) feed the yeast that causes outbreaks. Sweets themselves may not be the direct cause of acne, but I believe they are a catalyst for causing yeast overgrowth, which in turn results in acne (among other possible symptoms).

I used to get some mild but prominent acne on my face. After doing a three month yeast purge using oregano oil and acidophilus, and after cutting all refined sugars out of my diet, I no longer get the breakouts. I'm entirely convinced the culprit was yeast.

I say: get rid of that bread!!! ;-)

They left out what's already a source of IGF-1: milk. Shouldn't teens avoid milk also, if acne is something they're concerned about, & get calcium from other sources?

I agree: chocolate bars are loaded with sugar. It seems the best bet would be to control the insulin spike by relying upon more complex and unprocessed carbs.

Edited by author 12-06-2002 03:45 AM
Uh, isn't chocolate a highly processed grain type carb?

Oh, and saying 'low carb diet' is misleading. You should say processed or simple carb diet instead. One should still eat the same amount of carbohydratess, just make sure that they're the unprocessed, complex variety (eg, fruits and vegetables).