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Summary: Great WOL (way of life) for people w/insulin inbalances
Review: This book is actually easy to comprehend! Believe me, I have read my share of diet books! I found this one to be precise & to the point. Basically, it explains how insulin inbalances make it difficult to lose weight & affects your cholesterol levels. Reduction of sugar & specific carbs reduces insulin making weight loss & better cholesterol levels easier to obtain & manage.
There are 'legal' & 'illegal' foods listed with reasons why they are labeled as such. There are recipes & a 14 day sample menu included. The only thing I would have added is the shopper's guide. I think that should have been included instead of printed seperately because shopping for this WOL is quite a task for the first few times until you get a handle on exactly what wonderful foods you can eat.
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Summary: Get energized and lose weight! Double whammy!!
Review: Subtitled: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat. This book is full of common sense. In this day and age most of us know that sugar is the culprit for our malaise. Many of us do not understand the compexity of how sugar affects our physical and mental state and the doctors who authored this book have done a wonderful job at educating the lay person. I have personally been monitoring my intact of sugar and starches since February of this year, my glucose level was borderline. In only a few months I have found that I have so much more energy, less aches and pains and have lost almost 20 lbs. I have much more weight to lose but I am confident that I will continue in the right direction because I have learned and studied the benefits of a low carbohydrate program.
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Summary: I've cut the sugar, and am cutting the fat!
Review: I starting doing this eating program on the recommendation of my RN Mom. At a personal high weight of 270, I was starting to get pretty desperate. I was also working out 2-4 times per week. Something just wasn't working any more, my metabolism had slowed, I was just getting older(although ay 39 I don't feel very old). After 5 weeks on this program, I've lost 20 pounds and can feel the difference! Eating out isn't a chore, there's almost always something on the menu I can eat. I may not always follow the plan to the letter, but sugar-free chocolate pudding is a beautiful thing! I have more energy, don't crave sugar, and am looking forward to my goal weight of 135! i never thought I'd have to lose a whole person, but that's what it's come down to. The really interesting thing for me is, at a recent checkup, my blood pressure and resting heart rate were fine. My cholesterol was slightly elevated, but everything else checked out just fine.
So hopefully this will do the trick! Good luck to everyone, and definitely get the Shoppers Guide, it helps!
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Summary: Reduce Sugar to Stoke the Fat-Burning Fires
Review: In Sugar Busters!, 3 MDs and a former Fortune 500 CEO say: "Sugar is toxic." This is the most unusual nutrition/diet book that I have read. Its strength is a reasonably thorough overview of how natural and processed sugars affect your body chemistry. Except for people with diabetes and hypoglycemia, some of this information will be new. I think it is a valuable book for people to read since surveys continue to show that most Americans believe that the way to cut down on their fat is to cut back on fats. As a result, sales of fat-free products are soaring along with waistlines, obesity and weight-related diseases. One of the interesting factoids in the book was that middle-aged men around 50 have only 18 months more of life expectancy now in the United States than they did in 1900. This is true despite all of the advances made in health care that should extend life for those with cardiac disease and cancer. For example, did you know that eating excess sugar causes the body to make more cholesterol. Many people may be able to reduce cholesterol more with sugar reduction than with cholesterol-lowering drugs. Although it would have been nice to have taken a broader look at nutrition in this book (you can get that in Eating Well for Optimum Health), it is my understanding that it is correct that excess quickly-absorbed sugars (whether from Coca-Cola, corn or a candy bar) drive up your blood sugar level, cause your body to create insulin to store the sugar as fat, and suppress the glucagen that causes your body to burn stored fat. There are excellent tables to show how these results vary after a high carbohydrate versus a high protein meal. Carbohydrates are turned by your body into sugar, even if they start out as starches. So you have to beware of baked potatoes (before you add the sour cream and butter) as well as beer. Clearly, our health can stand a lot of improvement. It stands to reason that eating changes should be an important factor. While tens of millions diet, few actually succeed in keeping the weight off. This is one more sign that we are doing something wrong. The authors point out that sugars have been available to the masses for only a few generations. Prior to that, only the richest people suffered from too much sugar, bleached flour, and beer. As the rest of the world becomes wealthier, we face the risk of creating even more harm. I found the lists of what to eat more of and what to eat less of easy to follow and understand. I am not competent to comment on the recipes, fourteen day diet, and restaurant recipes. But if you are interested in such things, they are in the book. Be sure to learn the important lessons about avoiding excess sugar from this book. Then use that a springboard to learn more about what other nutritional changes can help you. I suggest Dean Ornish's book, Eat More, Weigh Less, as another good resource. He takes on the fat side of the intake equation in a thorough and useful way. Live Right for Your Type is another excellent resource that helped me a great deal. After you have learned all about nutrition, go on to Dean Ornish's book, Love and Survival, on how human connections affect our health even more than nutrition does. Overcome as many stalls as possible about how you eat and relate to others to have the fullest, most energetic, happiest, and most healthful life!
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Summary: An effective diet that normalizes weight and energy levels.
Review: I picked up Sugar Busters from the "Latest Books" shelf in library, (embarrassed by the tabloid-y title & cover), but determined to try one more weary time to lose some weight. IMO, the 6th-grade-level writing style shows good sense on the part of the authors. The reader doesn't feel clever or look impressive reading it, s/he just understands every word; you couldn't *manufacture an ambiguity from this text. I've given the diet a completely honest try for the last 5 weeks. I'm more energetic and sleeping better than I have in 20 years. I have absolutely no interest in the "forbidden" sweets, potatoes, corn, bananas, or chocolate. I'm going remain on this one indefinitely, this is the diet with my name on it. The diet itself allows me to moderate the amount of food I eat, since I don't have cravings and can eat filling amounts of healthy foods. So far I've lost 12 pounds,i.e., it works. While this may not be the diet that addresses the metabolic/obesity problems of everybody in the population but it certainly helps if you need it. General caution: A lot of us old dieters know all there is to know about diet *books, but if you haven't actually tried this one you may be stuck yo-yo dieting forever, when this could be exactly this regimen you need. Talk to your doctor of course, AND somebody who has actually started this diet if you need reassurance. For us, it's mostly good plain fresh simple food, and the occasional blockbuster gourmet meal, in moderate portions. Bon appetit!
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Summary: This diet makes you crave sweets!
Review: The longer I did this diet the more I craved sweets. I missed sugar so badly I experienced worse temptation than when I was not doing the diet. Not a good diet for people who enjoy some sugar in their lives.
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Summary: "MANY THANKS TO THE DR'S WHO WROTE THIS BOOK"
Review: First off I must thank the wonderful Dr's. who did alot of research and wrote this wonderful book. I have tried every diet known to man and could never stick to it because really for as long as I did them nothing really happened to make me feel good about loosing weight. Thanks to this book I "FINALLY" feel good about myself. I really can do it. With the help of Sugar Busters I am finding my way to my new self. My doctor has been after me for years to loose weight and I've tried everything, even going to a nutritionist for 1 yr. and only loosing very little weight. In 2 months I've lost 20 lbs. on Sugar Busters and I have never found a more easy way of doing it either. Finally a plan where you can eat normally without measuring and figuring out food plans from day to day. I've learned a whole new way of eating. I was a carbohydrate addict and a chocolate lover. With this diet I have cut out my carbs. and have not had any chocolate at all for 2 months and I really don't miss them at all. The scales keep constantly moving with hardly any real effort at all. You just have to learn the right way to eat. I'm finally starting to build up my self-esteem again. I really feel wonderful about what I am doing and I haven't felt this way in I don't know how many years. I owe my new life to these Dr's. and their wisdom. Once again I say thank you to all of them. I recommend this book to anyone who is really serious about loosing those unwanted pounds. There is no need to try all the diets out there, I'm living proof that Sugar Busters works. If I can do this, believe me ANYONE can do it. If you really want to loose those unwanted pounds go right now and order this book. You'll see what I mean when I say it really works.
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Summary: Lost 55 Pounds - Still Going
Review: I started the plan four months ago on my doctor's advice, I was originally going to go with Atkins but he dissuaded me from that plan. In the first two months I had dropped 25 pounds, and it kept going from there. I went from a 38 waist down to a 34 as of this week. I haven't felt this good in years, I have more stamina than I ever had. I would recommend that you see your doctor before starting any plan, and get a complete workup done (blood, etc.) Then go back in 3-4 months and see if you have improved.
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Summary: Be careful!
Review: This book is disturbing because it substitutes refined sugar with worse "sugars," aspartame and saccharin. Aspartame has been proven to cause depression because it blocks the production of serotonin. Saccharin is banned in certain countries for its known cancer-causing agents. Sugar Busters has the reader substituting these fake sugars in many recipes and okays diet colas. Try water if you are thirsty. The only reason I gave this book two stars (instead of one) is because it does suggest the switch to whole wheat and other complex carbohydrates as opposed to starches and white flour. If the authors were to revise this book and omit the fake sugars altogether, it would be a decent health regime. Try Ann Louise Gittleman's "Get the Sugar Out" for a healthy way to omit sugar. If you want to lose weight learn to read labels and try these two pointers: Don't eat anything with more than 5 grams of sugar per serving and don't eat anything that has "partially hydrogenated oils" listed in the ingredients. It is that easy.
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Summary: A New Way Of Life!!
Review: I have been doing this for about 4 months now and have lost 30 lbs. I have a hard time losing weight and this has been the most I have ever lost!! I still have a ways to go but it is sooooo easy with this program. Once you understand their way of thinking, it becomes second nature in your life. I strongly recommend this to everyone. You don't have to be a diabetic to use this program. I'm not but my mother is and she has lost 30 lbs. as well! Good luck to you!
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