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]

Jacob Teitelbaum M.D. (Author), Chrystle Fiedler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2010

The No-Fail Plan to Beating Sugar Addiction!

With one-third of our calories coming from sugar and white flour added to processed foods, sugar addiction is a rapidly growing epidemic. However, unlike other addictions, going “cold turkey” won’t fix it. In this groundbreaking book, nationally recognized physician Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum uncovers four types of sugar addiction and gives a step-by-step plan for resolving their underlying causes, breaking sugar cravings forever, and achieving dramatically improved health and energy levels—while also making it easier to lose weight!

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Sugar addiction in all its many guises robs people of their health and energy. Here is the solution!” —Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

“This is the best book I’ve read on this rapidly growing epidemic. Beat Sugar Addiction Now! explains how to diagnose your blood sugar issues, and then gives detailed instructions to overcome them and restore good health.” —Hyla Cass M.D., author of 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health

 “Beat Sugar Addiction Now! is a well-thought-out formula for understanding and overcoming sugar addiction. It is packed with information that will give you a successful formula for reclaiming your health.” —Hal Blatman, M.D., President, American Holistic Medical Association. Author, Winners’ Guide to Pain Relief

“Beat Sugar Addiction Now! gives a unique and carefully crafted plan to overcome sugar cravings, sugar addiction, and its corollary health problems. This book is a must!” —Robert Anderson, MD, ABIHM, FAAFP, family physician, author, clinical instructor at Bastyr University, and founder of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. 

“Beating sugar addiction has never been so easy, thanks to this valuable resource which should be in every home. The bonus is it teaches you how to break the sugar addiction while still enjoying the sweet, savory delights of food. Everyone with a mouth should own this book!” —Suzy Cohen, R.Ph. Author of The 24-Hour Pharmacist and Drug Muggers

About the Author

Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D. is one of the most frequently quoted integrative medical authorities in the world, and appears often as a guest on Oprah and Friends with Dr. Mehmet Oz and on CNN, Fox News Channel and local news and talk shows nationwide. He is the author of the best-selling From Fatigued to Fantastic! (3rd edition, Avery/Penguin Group USA), which has sold over 500,000 copies.  As a leading expert and researcher in chronic fatigue and pain, Dr. Teitelbaum has helped thousands worldwide to regain their energy, overcome pain and start enjoying their lives again.

 

Chrystle Fiedler is the author of over a hundred articles on health topics for many publications including Woman’s Day, Better Homes & Gardens, Prevention, Natural Health, Medizine’s Health Living, The Health Monitor Network, Great Health, Vegetarian Times, Bottom Line/Women’s Health, Heart Healthy Living and Health magazine. Chrystle also writes the “Good Nature” column for Remedy magazine and is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Natural Remedies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press; 1 edition (March 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592334156
• ISBN-13: 978-1592334155
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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177 of 180 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great to have all the information in one place June 2, 2010

By Ken Hill

Format: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.

170 of 182 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Incompleteness and advertising overwhelm the good parts November 4, 2010

By dsp108

Format: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.

59 of 61 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Changed the way I look at food June 5, 2010

By Phoenix

Format: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.