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Summary: Written before low-carb craze, and still perhaps the best
Review: Before the rafts of low-carb diet and cookbooks hit the shelves, Ann Louise Gittleman understood the threat sugar might pose to health. She does not tar all carbs with a single stroke, but breaks things down according to the glycemic index and to the source of the sugar. This information has been invaluable to me as I work to stop a slide into middle-age type II diabetes.
Rather than imbed data points in lengthy expository text, the information is presented in easy-to-take bullets organized by types of food (breakfast, entrees, soups, salads and more, including desserts). Thus, it is possible to glean useful information quickly, without having to "digest" chapters at a time. A helpful chapter on eating out suggests how to navigate menus, but frankly the emphasis of this book is that we have most control over what's in food when we prepare it, ourselves.
Other strengths of this book include its extensive bibliography and an index. In particular, the latter is lacking from many recently published non-fiction books. Its inclusion here only increases how easy the book is to use.
Finally, the distinctly non-faddish tone of the book appeals to me as a reader who is more persuaded by science than by anecdote. Gittleman nails this and has written a book that will be worth having long after the low-carb craze has passed into the cultural sunset.
I happily use Amazon's opportunity to re-sell books when I finish them. Rarely does a book earn more than temporary space on my shelves. This book, for me, is a keeper. Get your own copy *grin*
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Summary: Every American should read this!
Review: Easy to read, good reference and very enligtening. Ms. Gittleman gets the point across that fat is not making American's fat---sugar is! The fat-free, fat-reduced food industry has us fooled! I've been reducing sugar and have already lost weight and I have more energy at night after working all day then I have ever have!
I hope I can convince my friends and family that need to get healthier to read this simplistic, yet very informative book!
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Summary: This Book Gets the Sugar OUT!
Review: Gittleman's book proves effective because it focuses on cutting refined sugar out of the diet. Refined sugar has been stripped (over 90 percent) of its natural ingredient and is a man-made, processed chemical that can lead the body to many illnesses. The body has zero use for refined sugar. This book does not read like a story. It can be opened up at random and offers useful pointers. The book literally has 501 pointers and they are numbered for easy reading. It also includes many recipes. What is most important about Gittleman's book is her insistence to not substitute refined sugar with aspartame or saccharin. (Please before you use these sugar substitutes, educate yourself about them). I am also impressed that she suggests the use of Stevia (which the FDA won't approve, because, God-forbid, it is good for us). Sugar is everywhere, in everything. Learn how to recognize this with this wonderful book. You will not be deprived with Gittleman's delicious suggestions and you will do yourself and your body a huge favor.
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Summary: Not a diet, a lifestyle change!
Review: Gittleman's book proves effective because it focuses on cutting refined sugar out of the diet. Refined sugar has been stripped (over 90 percent) of its natural ingredient and is a man-made, processed chemical that can lead the body to many illnesses. The body has zero use for refined sugar. This book does not read like a story. It can be opened up at random and offers useful pointers. The book literally has 501 pointers and they are numbered for easy reading. It also includes many recipes. What is most important about Gittleman's book is her insistence to not substitute refined sugar with aspartame or saccharin. (Please before you use these sugar substitutes, educate yourself about them). I am also impressed that she suggests the use of Stevia (which the FDA won't approve, because, God-forbid, it is good for us). Sugar is everywhere, in everything. Learn how to recognize this with this wonderful book. You will not be deprived with Gittleman's delicious suggestions and you will do yourself and your body a huge favor.
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Summary: Dieting Made Easy
Review: I am truly amazed by this book. I have only gotten through the Preface, and have already learned more about my food intake than I have my entire life. I have been eating a low fat diet for years, and have realized that I fall prey to the common misconceptions mentioned in the book. I am happy to have things clarified for me.
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Summary: Finally, some practical tips!
Review: One of my biggest complaints about change-your-diet books is that they spend a lot of time convincing you why you should/shouldn't eat <fill in the product here>. This book isn't like that! She gives a brief overview of why cutting sugar out is a good idea, then gives sensible, helpful tips on how to go about actually doing it. I'm hypoglycemic and was recently told to follow a sugar-free diet, and this book has been a my roadmap. Everyone interested in their health should read this book!
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Summary: the sucrose itself ain't the half of it
Review: There are TWO major hazards to refined sugar (cane or beet):
1. the sugar itself ROTS TEETH (and robs the body of vitamins);
2. the BONE particles that remain IN the finished product are
the NUMBER ONE cause of the various forms of cancer manifested
throughout the "civilized" world, much more so than tobacco or
pollution.
Although the fact (disputed, yes) that refined sugar rots teeth
is reason enough to obsess about ingredients (both stated and
undeclared/hidden), the more subtle and unpublicized hazard of
refined sugar, namely the CHARRED BEEF BONES which are used to
render the product pure white (by filtration through bone ash),
seems to be equally worthy of investigation and exposure (i.e.,
publicity & eradication).
Since 1981 the word has been out (avatar Sathya Sai Baba, in
transcripts of his Summer Showers discourses) that it is the
BONES IN SUGAR that is the #1 cause of cancer. I apologize
for not using proper grammar and for omitting citations for
this claim. I had much trouble to resurrect the pdf page that
gave the word-for-word precaution/disclosure about sugar's
danger vis-a-vis cancer(s). I do remember that it dates from
1981, and that it was neccessary to scroll to almost to the
end/bottom of the Acrobat page to read the few paragraphs on
the connection between sugar and cancer. Baba did offer the
simple alternative of "jaggery", which is UNrefined, and has
NO bone residue within it to cause cancer. Brown sugar isn'tsuitable, being that usually that stuff is made from white
sugar with some molasses added back. Do a search via engine
for 'jaggery' and you'll come up with various links. Honey
is twice as sweet as sugar, so one could get by with half as
much in a recipe that calls for sugar, YET I'd still try to
omit same. Unless the label reads "unheated" (not raw), it's
been cooked, and the enzymes have been heated to death (or
whatever is the appropriate terminology).
I hope that by this review I have alerted some readers to an
ADDITIONAL reason to order the A L Gittleman user-friendly
guidebook on ridding one's cupboards and fridges of s-u-g-a-r.
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Summary: Very Informative!
Review: This book is very informative and explains in detail why sugar is unhealthy in the diet. What I like about this book is that she gives many examples and helpful hints on how to incorperate sugar substitutes to add flavor to foods.
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Summary: Required Reading!
Review: This information is essential for a healthy lifestyle. All of your excercise and dieting is in vain if you continue to consume sugar and enriched flour! I found this book easy to follow, with great recipes. I am baking the oat granola right now. If you care about your health and psychological well being, please read this book.
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