Candida campaign?

Following on from my last post, I'm starting to think there is room for a candida-raising awareness campaign here. After all, I've seen many campaigns in the media for some of the most obscure health problems, so why not candida? 

I believe the campaign needs to be two-fold:

1) There needs to be more awareness raising of the high-levels of sugar in packaged and processed foods these days, (even in supposedly fresh and healthy items). This needs to include a call for a assessment or inquiry into the food industry to find out why they put so much sugar in their items and to look into the health benefits and risks of this (not just obesity). After all, excess sugar has an impact on other diseases too, such as arthritis etc. If the food industry can respond to calls for low salt in foods, or gluten-free items, then surely they can respond to a need to reduce sugar in foods too.

2) There is also a need to raise awareness of candidia illness in the general medical profession too. It needs to be taken more seriously with proper research and funding into the causes and treatment of candida; GPs/frontline staff need to be more aware of  how to ensure patients take preventative action when being prescribed antibiotics; and doctors/NHS need to take patients seriously if they feel they might have a problem with candida, in terms of providing the right hospital testing services.

Candida can be an underlying symptom of a wide range of health problems which is probably costing the NHS billions to treat individually. A lot of illnesses are also inadequately treated with pills etc (eg IBS) because doctors don't know how to treat them properly.

If the profession could get to grips with the candida problem it could have a big impact on the health and happiness of the general population, as well as NHS health budgets. It could also lead to an increased general body of knowledge of this strangely neglected disease. Research would also help with stats and facts to see just how endemic this issue is.

It might even make the food/sugar industry take notice as well. But I guess they have a vested interest in keeping us unaware of the impact excessive sugar can have on our health and wellbeing.