About this title: A provocative exposA1/2 of the negative effects of sugars and simple carbs-and how to break the addiction. Most readers already know that succumbing to sweets too often can lead to obesity and diabetes. What many don't know, however, is that too many "quickie carbs" can bring on a host of other maladies-such as "brain fog," fatigue, mood swings, heart disease, and even cancer-from which millions may be suffering because of their sugar or carbohydrate habits. Once besieged by 44 seemingly unconnected symptoms, former "sugar addict" Connie Bennett, an experienced journalist, managed to kick ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780425213575ISBN:0425213579
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. some crimping and wear to cover edges; no marks or writing within text; RTB596. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 396 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Date Published: 2006-12-26
ISBN-13:9780425213575ISBN:0425213579
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780425213575ISBN:0425213579
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Berkley
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780425213575ISBN:0425213579
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Softcover in very good / gently read condition. Clean copy-no spine creases-nice book! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Date Published: 2006-12-26
ISBN-13:9780425213575ISBN:0425213579
Description: Good. Paperback. General paperback wear, bends in spine, possible bends from reading on the cover, and may have a bookstore stamp inside cover. Quick response! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Date Published: 2006-12-26
Description: Very Good. 2007 printing. Very slight edge wear on paperback cover, and 3 creased page corners. Otherwise, book is like new. All proceeds benefit local libraries. read more
"I just skimmed this book; I don't think it's worth reading the whole thing. The idea is that simple carbs and sugars make us age faster and give us mysterious health problems like headaches and mood swings. I would have liked to read a book about the same material but from a more objective viewpoint - I felt like Bennett's testimonial and desire to be readable made me less likely to trust her (especially when she cites research in one chapter, and then in the next basically says that "parents know better than scientists that sugar makes children hyperactive!" Mixing pseudoscience with real research just really annoyed me). I felt like there was too much filler and "it can also help you lose weight!" when all I wanted to know was what bad things sugar does and how to avoid them.
Outside this book, I think it would be interesting to experiment with taking simple carbs and sugar out of my diet, but I think it would be rather expensive. Cereal, potatoes, bread, and white rice are my cheap college student staples. Adding non-potato vegetables would mean another $10 a week or so."
"Refined sugar is bad. But after trying to rid my diet of it for about two days, I realized that NO sugar isn't balanced, and this book is a bit to extreme considering that people who are Bipolar or suffer from other psychiatric illnesses definitely need carbs on a more prominent level than the average bear. There was a study done recently by a Harvard researcher showing that Bipolar patients and those with depression actually get WORSE on low carb diets. So that ended my quest to be sugar-free in a hurry. The book is insightful when it comes to demonstrating what over-consumption of refined sugars can do to the human body, and how marketing of sugar is everywhere, and politics are involved, etc.
All I know is, I need balance in my diet, and I'm not going to cut out white bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, fruits with higher glycemic indexes, etc."
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