From a research standpoint, trying to starve candida is one of the things that triggers it to go systemic in its fungal form in search of food. The analogy I use is, if someone took all the food out of your house, you'd go shopping too. It's the same with fungal candida albicans which has an amazing ability to obtain food from many sources in the body. The concept of starving it of sugar is very outdated, but something that was thought to be important back in the late 1950s.