Title: Yeast Infections and Your Diet: What's the Connection? | Everyday Health
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Yeast Infections and Your Diet: What's the Connection? Yeast infection causes may be somewhat related to your diet. But can following a special diet cure or prevent an infection? By Chris Iliades, MD Medically Reviewed by Lindsey Marcellin, MD, MPH
Last Updated: April 5, 2011
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Having a yeast infection is a common female problem — maybe in part because yeast infection causes are so wide-ranging. They include stress, illness, menstrual periods, pregnancy, and even being on medications for other conditions. Normally the fungus that causes yeast infection, Candida albicans lives in balance with the other microorganisms in your body. "