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125 of 128 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great to have all the information in one place, June 2, 2010
This review is from: Beat Sugar Addiction Now!: The Cutting-Edge Program That Cures Your Type of Sugar Addiction and Puts You on the Road to Feeling Great - and Losing Weight! (Paperback)
Teitelbaum and Fiedler's book is easy to understand and the book is broken down into several sections.
Part I outlines the different kinds of sugar addictions and how they affect people's lives.
4 kinds of addicts are described:
Type 1 addicts use sugar and caffeine to keep themselves awake, and tend to be addicted to energy drinks. They are stressed out, often Type A personalities who substitute the quick fix of coffee or sugar to make up for not getting enough sleep or eating a healthy diet.
Type 2 addicts are suffering from adrenal failure and use sugar to keep themselves going when they are exhausted or stressed out. These are the hypoglycemics, the people whose blood sugar drops and leaves them irritable, shaky, and tearful.
Type 3 addicts have sugar cravings caused by an overgrowth of yeast. These people spend a lot of time eating and wanting to eat foods with a lot of sugar and white flour because it makes them feel better...briefly.
Type 4 addicts have hormonal imbalances and crave sugar to stave off irritability and depression. This applies to men as well as women, though it is most often characterized by women with PMS, or menopausal problems.
Part II introduces healing practices for sugar addicts in general, as well as specific solutions for each of the 4 types of addicts outlines in part I. This section explains how to deal with the sugar cravings as well as the underlying medical conditions that cause them.
Part III deals with the treatment of health problems that often accompany sugar addiction. There are chapters on anxiety, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, depression, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, hypothyroidism, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines and tension headaches, obesity, and sinusitis.
These sections are then followed by several appendixes, all of which are jam packed with helpful information.
Overall, this is a complete and well organized book with ample strategies to help all kinds of sugar addicts overcome their addictions and move forward with their lives.
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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Changed the way I look at food, June 5, 2010
This review is from: Beat Sugar Addiction Now!: The Cutting-Edge Program That Cures Your Type of Sugar Addiction and Puts You on the Road to Feeling Great - and Losing Weight! (Paperback)
This book has changed the way I look at food, and I am pretty excited about it. I am ready to lose weight, to feel better and to have a better life.
Having just finished reading it, I haven't started yet, but I have faith that I will. This is not an unrealistic plan and there are no specific weight loss goals or promises. Nowhere in this book does he say "You will lose 30 pounds in the first 4 months-guaranteed!" or anything like that, because those kind of claims are either BS or based on unhealthy weight loss goals.
This is not a diet book. It's not about following a plan to reach a set weight and then stopping. This is about changing your life and your lifestyle for good. It's about saying good bye to some things and adding a lot of other things in.
I thought this would just be a preachy book telling me what a bad person I am for eating brownies and how I need to do better. Instead there isn't any judgment. I never felt like he was accusing me of being fat because of what I've done. Instead, everything is very logical, just giving info about how the body processes things, how people feel when they are suffering from sugar addiction, and what people can do to get healthy again.
The book was broken up into chunks which made it very readable. First it talks about sugar addiction and you figure out what kind of sugar addict you are (there are different kinds based on what your body is doing that makes you want to eat sugar).Then there are treatment plans for each kind of addiction, and it's not just stopping eating candy. There's medicines and natural health stuff to do, and things you can take like vitamins and things to help your body do its work better.
Then there's a whole section on different diseases you might have and how you can make them better or even cure them by taking natural vitamins and getting more sleep and taking medicine and exercising and stuff.At the end there's lists of doctors and places to buy vitamins and lists of foods to eat. What I'm trying to say is this book makes it pretty easy for you. All you need to do is fill out the questions and follow what it tells you to do.
I am planning on starting right now. It's tempting to pig out on cookies tonight and then promise myself that I won't do it again and I am making a fresh start, but I think it's better to just say that starting right now I will be treating my body and myself better.
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112 of 121 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Incompleteness and advertising overwhelm the good parts, November 4, 2010
This review is from: Beat Sugar Addiction Now!: The Cutting-Edge Program That Cures Your Type of Sugar Addiction and Puts You on the Road to Feeling Great - and Losing Weight! (Paperback)
Overall, this book was disappointing. The book starts off well, promising to identify one's type of sugar addiction and then offer solutions. There are some good points made, and things I will follow-up on. However, in its efforts to be a gimmicky "workbook", the book shortchanges the readers on important details and specifics. Just a few examples: in the discussion of sugar alcohols, there is absolutely no mention of xylitol, which is probably one of the most widely used sugar alcohols in the world (particularly in the Scandinavian countries) and readily available in North America. There is no mention in the book of vegetarian diets, leaving some of us mystified as to how to modify his prescriptions for meat, fish, eggs, and seafood (and of course, I'm not even mentioning the extremely well-documented negative health consequences of the amount of animal products he suggests, including the effects of excess protein). He does not discuss the effect of polished white rice on the body, which in my limited understanding acts in a way similar to white sugar and white flour.
Some of his discussions are simplistic. When describing how walking burns calories, he uses a straight one-to-one ratio, without clearly explaining how exercise (or the lack of it) changes one's metabolic rate, thus producing a multiplier effect on calorie burning. And his prescription to "eat more salt" left me dumbfounded. Yes, individuals react to sodium differently, but such blanket advice is simply dangerous.
Furthermore, and without comment on the products' merits, the book is suffused with not-so-subtle advertisements for various products sold or promoted by the author. A simple disclaimer (something to the effect of "I sell and/or have a financial interest in these products" would have helped the author's credibility).
I was left with the overall impression that I did not have the information I needed about this important problem. Based on his quizes, I was not even able to concretely identify my type of sugar addiction. In fairness, the book may have been simplified for the mass market. Still, I would recommend that you get this book from your local library and skim it before you purchase.
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