lol, it's ok Cleft, I think it's great to have an opinion - but I didn't take your post as being "opinionated". I think hearing "candida diet" can indeed sound like it may starve a person. But when you consider what the person can eat and if they make sure they do, then indeed I think it can still be healthy. Perhaps limited yes, but sometimes there is little option if one cannot function properly otherwise.

Perhaps in some cases it can get to a point where they start demonising almost everything - even down to meats and eggs. If that were the case, I think I'd have almost nothing left to consume.

Thankfully I take little notice of those types of extremes, but I eat what I know suits me. What I used to get away with, I now don't. If my situation changed? Then I'd include more foods as soon as I could. Because I think fruit and grain is a part of natural diet and I'm simply not getting them, nor am I able to tolerate them! Which is annoying to say the least.

I'd keep challenging myself too, but problem is, when it takes me 8 weeks to recover after a food challenge...one is not so inclined to repeat it