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Summary: Oustanding book and easy reading!
Review: What a great book. This is the first book that really explains why this way of eating works ... it doesn't just tell you what to do. The program really works - I've lost 8 pounds in two weeks. I don't get hungry between meals anymore, and I have so much more energy. No more mid-day energy slumps! Even when I cheat and don't exercise, I still lose weight! I've order 4 more copies of the book for my family!
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Summary: Sugar Busters! is a bust-don't do it!
Review: As an editor of a well-know nutrition magazine, I can tell you that this book will lead you astray into bad nutrition. The book makes one false claim after another (it implies -- wrongly -- that sugar causes diabetes and heart disease, and that insulin causes weight gain). It also argues that calories don't count -- although they do. In fact, most nutritionists will tell you that if you want to lose weight, cutting calories (not fat) and thus, your portion sizes, should be your first step. Most alarmingly, the book recommends huge portion sizes and foods like elk and quail, which can be extremely expensive and hard to find at your local supermarket. If you don't believe my assessment of the diet -- simply pick up this week's issue of Time or the August issue of the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter, which both give scathing reviews of the diet. And as a cautionary note to readers, always be supect of diets like Sugar Busters! which place certa! in foods off-limits. You can eat any food you want, provided you eat a well-balanced diet (for example, if you must have fried chicken, eat a very small portion every now and then, but load up on the veggies and grains) and keep your portions reasonably small. For a more sensible eating plan and diet advice, check out any of the books recommended at the American Dietetic Association web site (http://www.eatright.org): Controlling Your Fat Tooth by Joseph C Piscatella. Workman Publishing, 1991. Cut the Fat! by The American Dietetic Association. HarperCollins, 1996. Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery by Dean Ornish. Ballantine, 1992. Eating Smart: The ABCs of the New Food Literacy by Jeanne Jones. Macmillan, 1994. The New American Diet System by Sonja L and William E Connor. Simon and Schuster, 1991. Skim the Fat: A Practical and Up-to-Date Food Guide b! y The American Dietetic Association. Chronimed, 1995.
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Summary: My neighbor is living proof it works
Review: My neighbor has lost 35 lbs. in the last 14 weeks. He's been following the advice of Sugar Busters! Today he gave me the book to read. I read it. I'm now going to buy my own copy. I look at him and I say, "my neighbor is living proof it works". I told him I wanted to lose some weight. I told him I have't been on a scale in years but I guessed I weighed about 195 lbs. He said "I don't think so". I got up the courage to get on his scale. 215 lbs.!! I was shocked. Today is the first day for me. But if stay with it (it's going to be tough to give up my beer), I am convinced that it can work for me too.
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Summary: Sugar Busters v. Adtkins
Review: After trying both diets, Sugar Busters and Adtknis, I found that Adtkins had better results for me. Just a little sugar, even the non processed kind that Sugar Busters allowed sent my sugar cravings right to the roof. No Tasykake was safe in my prescence. I found that without any sugar as recommended by Adtkins, I lost more weight and didn't "cheat" as much.
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Summary: It stands the nutrition world on its head!
Review: This book was clearly written in a simple, 6th grade level, for a specific reason. It was to appeal to more than just the scientific crowd. However, its basic premise appears revolutionary. That is, it is foods like corn and potatoes, not eggs and red meat that are the culprit in the high cholesterol war and in the weight loss battle. If this premise is true (and I'd like to see some scientific review) then the authors have done a great service to all. I have only recently read the book (3 days ago) but I will watch with great interest.
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Summary: The latest spin on the high-protein,low-carbo diet fad
Review: The first impression I got from this book was how poorly-documented it was,with little in the way of independant substantiation for the claims made. Yes,you can lose weight--temporarily--on this kind of regimen,because when you deprive your body of carbohydrates,it attacks the fat reserves due to the fact that it assumes that you're starving to death! Insulin has become the target in the latest wave of diet books(Adkins,the "Zone",Sugarbusters, etc.)--you'd think that high insulin levels were responsible for everything from athlete's foot to brain tumors. Insulin levels are a concern for diabetics,but research indicates that--rather than being a CAUSE of obesity--they're a CONSEQUENCE of obesity. Another problem with this book and similar tomes is that they never define the "low-fat" diets that they attack. I assume that they categorize the prevailing "30% of calories from fat" credo as "low-fat". However,many nutritionists(such a! s Dr.Dean Ornish and others) maintain that 30% of calories from fat is way too high,and have the data and studies to back that up. A TRUE "low-fat" regimen consists of no more than 10% of calories from fat. Incorporate that into a balanced,nutrionally sound diet,and you'll do more than merely lose excess weight--you'll improve your overall HEALTH immensely. (I know,it's worked for me) Of course,most people would prefer to believe that they can skip the carrots and eat all the prime rib they want--and I imagine that notion(combined with the TEMPORARY weight loss that can be achieved by such regimens) is the main reason why such books are bestsellers.
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Summary: A Revolutionary Book That Will Change Your Life
Review: SUGAR BUSTERS is the only fitness book that actually worked for me. Since I've started following the eating guidelines, I've lost over 20 pounds, and feel better than I ever have before. The great thing about this book is that it approaches health and nutrition from a completely different perspective. Instead of worrying about calories and fat grams, SUGAR BUSTERS focuses on the effect foods have on the body's blood chemistry, especially with regards to insulin, which has a profound effect on weight loss/gain. The book includes a list of acceptable/unacceptable foods, recipes, a 14-day sample meal plan, and tons of information. I give this book my highest possible recommendation. It changed my life. Anyone who is overweight, has high cholesterol, diabetes, or just wants to look and feel better should buy yhis book. I've gone from 230 pounds to 208 in less than 3 months. My goal for the next 3 months is to get down to 190 pounds. If you follow the eating guidelines outlined in SUGAR BUSTERS, and combine it with a reasonable excercise program (walking, jogging, bicycling), you will be amazed at the results. This program takes time and commitment. You can't change your appearance and health overnight. But you will begin to feel better almost immediately when you eliminate sugar from your diet. The authors explain why sugar is bad for you, and why cultures that don't eat a lot of sugar, as well as our ancestors who didn't eat refined sugar, are healthier and live longer. In conclusion, if you read only one health/fitness book this year, it should be SUGAR BUSTERS. Having been duped by gimmichky diets in the past, and having been overweight for a long time, I wouldn't write a positive review for this book if I didn't honestly believe in its message. I understand what it's like to be overweight, and that is why I am recommending this book to everyone out there who wants to change their lives.
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Summary: This book contains a wonderful eating plan for life.
Review: If you loath diets, have diabeties or high blood pressure in your family, or just want to get rid of excess weight easily, get this book! My aunt lost 49lbs. in 8 weeks with this plan. She then gave this book to me. I've lost 31lbs in the same amount of time. Now my husband, father, mother and father -in-law have started this eating plan. It's simple and fulfilling. Good luck.
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Summary: VERY INTERESTING
Review: I enjoyed the book, my only comment is that this being my second attempt at dieting (weight wathchers was my first attempt) I kinda like being given some type of guilelines for the amounts of the food that I can eat and also additional food substitutions would be good too. I just started yesterday and I am real excited !!!!
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Summary: Excellent-reafirms what we already know about healthy eating
Review: The information in this book is excellent for keeping a healthy slim body but the comments on why the Native American Indians in the Southwest have such a high incidence of diabetes and obesity does not come from eating hybrid corn but rather from a diet of mainly soda pop, candy, packaged pastry goods, lard, fatty foods, and fry bread fried in lard until it drips with grease. Studies have been done to document this. Also having lived with the Native Americans for many years I see the evidence of this daily.
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