You just contradicted yourself, obviously there is a correlation and causation when 50-90% of people worldwide have candida to some degree and that many are fat as well. When your immune system gets weak due to fat, which it will, you will succumb to the candida. Even in small amounts in a host, a fungus can have major influence over the types and levels of hormones that are priduced and dispersed throughout the bodily tissues! I dunno about the cleanses, but I know fungus doesn't thrivewhen certain things are present, and it thrives on certain nutrients. Even limping sugar into your diet, fungus, being highly resilient, will subsist. Oh, did you know it has been found that adipose fatty tissue secretes a cetain hormone which encourage fatty tissue growth? And that fungus lives in sybbiosis with other bacetris forming what is known as a biofilm, highly resilent to both the immune system and antibiotic drugs? Did you kniw that yeast has sex? Not just grows, grows, yeah, but also has sex? But I really don't care. I figured it all out and feel great now thanks to a lil protocol I am on. If you want to disregard my advice and do whatevs, pharm it up knucklehead. Edit: I guess it was late and I kinda missed that this was pushing a product. I just wanted people to be aware of the problem and its scope. Need better resources obviously. Look into naturopathic antifugals. Oregano oil is a classic one. Sugar though, sugar is what is getting people most.