El Nuevo Sugar Busters!

by H. Leighton Steward, Morrison Bethea, Sam Andrews

When Sugar Busters! hit the shelves almost five years ago, it quickly became a diet and lifestyle phenomenon. The millions of people across the country on the Sugar Busters! plan discovered that by simply choosing the correct carbohydrates and lowering their sugar intake, they could shed the pounds they failed to lose with other diets. Now the weight-loss program that swept the nation has been completely revised and updated--incorporating all the newest nutritional findings, health statistics, and scientific studies, and featuring all-new, easy-to-follow recipes and meal plans.
Among the wealth of new material in this edition, you'll find amazing testimonials from men and women who are losing weight and feeling fit the Sugar Busters! way; frequently asked questions and helpful answers; the latest on diabetes--and how The New Sugar Busters! can help prevent it--; essential facts on women, weight loss, and nutrition; and new tips and practical exercise suggestions.
So arm yourself with the facts and get the figure you've always wanted. When it comes to optimal wellness on the Sugar Busters! program, it's survival of the fittest--a way of life in which everybody wins!

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Food, Nutrition, Diets, Reference, Cooking

416 pages, Paperback

Published December 2, 2003

Reviews

[Bookfanatic · Rating 3 out of 5]

An older book, I think this came out in 1995, about the connection between America's obesity crisis and the addition of refined sugar in our food. Written by three medical doctors, the book is sinple and straightforward. There are meals plans and some recipes at the end. There are more recent books like Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taube, which give greater insight into the disastrous effects of sugar in our diet, but SugarBusters is a good start.

[Rory · Rating 4 out of 5]

No-nonsense, hardcore, get-over-it-you're-addicted.

[Macy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting info, but it was HORRIBLY written. Super repetitive and very disorganized.

[June Milner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prevention based on medical and nutritional facts is so important to health and yet so lacking in our present system . Obviously big money at work in our medical and food industries is one big factor why there is so much misinformation out there. It's sad that doctors are trained in treating disease and receive next to no training in prevention. Its upto each of us to self educate in order to sift through all the false advertising we are bombarded with.

[Jade · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the book that compelled me to commit to cutting out added sugar from my diet. It's terrifying how much sugar the average American consumes, unknowingly, per year. In 2000, it was 158 pounds. This huge intake of sugar has a lot to do with why people are developing type II diabetes.

[Rachel McKnight Draut · Rating 4 out of 5]

Take-aways: I've read a lot of material about the history of sugar and why an excess is bad for you, but something new I really liked about this book is the way it explained why no-carb diets are not the best way to eat. We do need carbs for our health! Just the right kinds and the right amount.

[Kathy Spencer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recommended by my doctor ,very interesting

[Lena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book!

[Roxanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good info but repetitive

[Grazyna Nawrocka · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Sugar Busters program promotes ideas that are already familiar to me, like that eating white bread, white rice corn products, refined sugars is very bad for your health. The new concept was that beets, beer, and potatoes belong to this group (due to high glycemic index). I also found out that eating refined sugar can contribute to depression, fact that energy intake (calories) is not sufficient to predict weight gain or loss, and that cholesterol is not a reliable indicator for the heart attack risk.

I do not like lack of recognition of impact the processed food has on nutritional value on our produce (although it was applied to flour and sugar). The artificial sweeteners are treated as recommended way to avoid consumption of sugar. Perhaps the book was published when all data about how harmful those products are was not available.

The book provides a reader with half of the truth, but is simple, up to the point, and interesting.

[Caroline · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book wasn 19t the most exciting read, but the advice it gives is sound and the diet programme and recipes are easy to follow. Sugar Busters was one of the first Low GI Diets and this is an updated version.

The link between obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes is one that should not be ignored. Even if you don 19t follow the diet plan to the letter, cutting out some of the obvious sugars in your diet, as well as the hidden ones can only have a positive effect on your health and on your weight.

I have also recently read 18Potatoes Not Prozac 19 by Kathleen Des Maisons which is similar, but more complicated to follow. I would recommend this book out of the two.

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

I listened to this in the car and found it very interesting. It gives a detailed explanation of how foods that raise your glucose levels (glycemic index) leave leftover glucose not used by the cells for energy, so it gets stored as fat. Having just taken college-level Molecular and Cell Biology last spring, I found it really intriguing. So I cut out most sugar and high glycemic index foods. Haven't lost any weight. So going to reduce fat intake as well - at least this way, I won't replace the fat with sugar and high glycemic foods. We'll see!

[Diane Glover · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is THE book that I have used more than once in my healthy/weightloss journey. It makes sense to me that you have to look at BLOOD SUGAR and what spikes it and what doesn't. With that In mind this is the book that I recommend to people who have been recently diagnosed with diabetes. I do not recommend the ADA diet as it allows too many simple sugars in the forms of simple carbs which are very VERY bad for diabetics. Being diabetic myself I can vouch for this form of eating as a way to use food to CONTROL your diabetes.

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

A most interesting approach to dieting and maintenance. Like most diet books, though, the whole rationale and instructions could have been done in 20-30 pages. Instead we get Chapters on childhood obesity and other peripheral issues.

The least valuable part of the book was the 100 pages of recipes from famous restaurants.

I guess they have to bulk it up to make the cost appear fair.

It is a good diet, though. I've lost 23 pounds in 3 months.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good stuff here that makes a lot of sense. Deprivation diets won't work for me and won't work for most people. This book, for the most part, gives you a way around deprivation while also giving you a roadmap to a healthier lifestyle. Some sections contain a lot of medical terminology, but readers can skip those parts and still get the benefit of the book.

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finished this book in one sitting. I will admit I did not retain a lot of information because majority of it (the first part) was a health lesson on digestion, cardiovascular health, and diabetes. I did get a few pointers though. It taught me the foods to avoid (or restrict and that for weight loss sugar is the enemy not fats!

[Angela Buckland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hands down, one of my favorite books about healthy eating. I probably reference this book at least one a week to someone who is sincerely trying to eat better. This is such a great and easy place to start. No counting calories. Just simple, mindful eating of complex carbs, protein, and fat. This book was low-carb before low-carb was even in vogue!

[Jesse · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of my resolutions this year is to eat less sugar. I have a pretty bad sweet tooth that I need to control. I liked the overall message of the book but i really dragged at times and was tough to finish. It had a lot of parts that just didn't apply to me so it might be best if read as a reference book rather than a novel.

[Sharon Botts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very Informative.

I am currently working on my on own lifestyle changes that include weight loss. I was diagnosed with MS in 2009 and have a regular exercise routine . I also try to watch my diet.
This will help me to better identify what to purchase and provide a list to the shopper.

[Susannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author makes what seems like a solid argument about eliminating sugar to lose body fat, but then goes on to recommending artificial sweeteners, meat and dairy because he thinks that Fuhrman and Ornish are too strict for most people to follow. I personally prefer just the facts and not "sugar-coated" recommendations based on what the author thinks the reader can handle.

[Gerry Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best yet for really wanting to shed pounds without a lot of pain of starving.....One must follow the rules and you will lose....I lost 60lbs eating by the books...But when it tells don't eat something, then don't cause the program won't work then....and it is that simple.

[Kristin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the info is out of date, and the reader (I listened to the audiobook version) was way too dramatic. But, the overall message to get sugar out of your diet if your goal is optimal health is sound.

[Paige Gordon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book to be super helpful and informative. The authors did a great job clearly explaining the science behind low GI scale eating and offering advice and inspiration to make sustainable changes to your diet.

Favorite Quote: “Start out like you can hold out.”

[Cindy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Stop eating sugar, just do it. I knew that already, tell me how please.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Discusses the affects of sugar on the body. Helps provide a plan to reduce sugar from the diet. Can be read for people who are using it as a "get healthy" tool, or with systemic candidiasis.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

The new book is as good as the original. We're living healthier and thinner for reading this book.

[Jessietaylortanner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eh. Very elementary. Maybe a good read for someone who wants a basic overview or has only a basic interest in the subject. However, I still agree with the subject matter.

[travelmel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too extreme and not that informative. I imagine the first one was better.

[Gina]

Flags: p. 13, 18, 24, 26, 29, 44, 62, 80, 82, 84, 86, 89, 92-97, 159, 176, 180, 194, 225, 233, 253, 274, 295, 306, 329, 331, 350

Up to pg. 101

[Bjorn · Rating 3 out of 5]

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