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jake papadopoulos

Very informative book.

Recensito in Canada 🇨🇦 il 5 gennaio 2023

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It’s good to know as much as possible about this white killer sugar.

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John Willis

A brief but Interesting read

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 7 settembre 2013

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I've been reading and watching anything that includes Dr. Lustig's work for about three years now.

Most of it is predicated on what food chemistry does to us and our biomachinery. And I find it very interesting, scary at times and well supported by the cited research.

He has an insightful original way to look at things in an obvious and intuitive way.

Its a more complex way of looking at us rather than as calorie consumers and burners. "A calories isn't just a calorie.." It might be a building block, or a poison, scaffolding or a drug.

If the biomachinery gets damaged or clogged, basically it stops working and can spin out of control leading to sickness or worse. The calories might go unburned, or end up as excess body fat.

He also talks about things I never thought about, like it takes 13 trys to "teach" a baby that something savory isn't a poison and they will slowly adapt to eating it. But it only takes one try to "teach" them to eat something sweet.. but you can't sustain life on "sweets" alone. But we are "hardwired" to trust and consume "sweet" things... we are cognitively defenseless against them. They do bad things to our bodies, in moderate quantities, which we have to learn to avoid.

He talks about how it takes 18 days cold turkey to break an addiction, and the same goes for a dietary craving like for sugar.

He's even philosophical in that it takes time to build up a palate of savory foods we will regularly consume, but no time to consume almost "anything" that had been sweetened.. even if its totally unnatural and traditionally absurd. Europeans visiting the US are revolted by the uncommonly pre-sweetened foods in America.. but quickly develop a "tolerance" and then "addiction" to them.

That leads me to wonder if we can "forget" our palate of savory foods just as easily and degenerate our diet into cheaper unsupportive, even dangerous foods, laced with ever increasing amounts of sugar.. almost like a pain killer for hunger. Addicted to the pain killer.. we seem to consume ever increasing amounts of it, increasing our weight and hurting our health.

This eBook takes a practical look at what we eat, and brings awareness to just "how much" sugar is in common foods you'd find in the Supermarket. It provides practical suggestions for countering and taking control of how much sugar your consuming. And tries to enable you to steer back towards something a little more normal.

The problem is we generally "don't know what is Normal" and this book tries to explain that.

Its not a long book, its not a "Calorie counters" guide or an Index to every food and how much sugar is in it. It is not that sort of book. Rather it gives common examples everyone is likely to encounter.. and then proceeds to describe strategies for making better choices, strategies for balancing the situation or avoiding it altogether.

It is also definitely not an "extremist" book. Some foods listed have 10 or 20 grams of sugar in a single Serving. But being aware of that, you can consider the consequences of that and perhaps choose not to flood your overworked liver with more for the rest of the day. Its the overworked state that can lead to fatty liver disease and high insulin levels that can lead to dementia, heart disease and diabetes. Long after the sweet taste has faded from your taste buds your cells are still waging war with itself to properly process, or deal with all the excess sugar in your blood.

Dr. Lustig is working on a follow up eBook Cookbook that will build upon the material in this book - to teach a new generation of people who grew up in the 80's and 90's and who never learned to cook, how to cook and take control of the ingredients in the foods that they eat.

To teach those who might have had their palate stunted and never fully developed enough to ensure a healthy diet. Or for those who might have had their palate regressed due to a busy schedule and convenience foods, or who find it hard to afford foods that are more nutritious than merely sweetened cardboard. I look forward to reading that book.

But for now this is a very good preamble, a starters guide to doing simple things, like reading and interpreting food labels with a skeptical and critical eye. And thinking about how to plan ahead to avoid mindlessly moving from one meal to the next feeling out of control, unconscious and unaccountable for what we consume.

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Connie Mack

Handy reference book

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 15 ottobre 2017

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Somehow I ordered this - by mistake on my Kindle. This book is a wealth of knowledge if you have not researched or read much about the food you consume and the nutrition breakout. However, I've done a lot of reading and to me this is a rehash of what I already know, BUT, it is well-written and I would recommend it as a good resource in your kitchen if you are interested in finding out about everything related to food from Sugar to Fats to Protein to Carbohydrates, how to read labels (if you do now know already). It also covers shopping and has a huge list of foods with their Calories and Sugar grams listed. Handy for shopping.

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EAL

Excellent!

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 16 novembre 2015

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Every one needs this book and it doesn't matter if you are healthy, diabetic, overweight, having Metabolic Syndrome, etc. This is a real eye opener as to the hidden sugars in food and how the government is complicit in aiding the sugar industry. For example, the FDA only requires the listing of 6 sugars on the package percentages. My own example is a box of name-brand sausages. The percent of sugar on the nutrition break down is shown as zero. Oh good. Until I read the ingredients and #3 was high fructose corn syrup. What the heck!

To lose weight I first cut out sugar and refined carbohydrates. This worked very well for me and I am minus 48 pounds. Grocery store trips are a lot longer now because I read every label. It's worth the extra time. Hidden sugars are in just about everything packaged and frozen. It's like walking through a mine field.
It really disgusts me to see something labeled as healthy blah, blah, blah and it has a cart load of sugar in it.
How do diabetics manage? No wonder the US and other nations are having diabetes epidemics. We have become a nation of sugar addicts.

This book helped me immensely and I highly recommend it. Thanks Dr. Lustig.

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Nicole M. G

Very informative

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 7 maggio 2022

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I enjoyed the book and learned a lot. The last part of the book was surprising. Wow how interesting. Thanks Dr. Lustig. Finally someone telling truth.

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Diane

Straightforward and immediately useful

Recensito in Canada 🇨🇦 il 7 luglio 2018

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Part 1: definitions and context <— this rocks!!

Part 2: shopping recommendations

I’m lucky enough that I don’t have to buy processed food if I don’t want to, so Part 2 is less useful to me (plus it’s American and I’m not). For grab-and-go shoppers, though, I can see it being a good resource.

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h treck

But I like

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 28 ottobre 2017

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I was expecting something more detailed. But I like Lustig

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Aloha

A practical, useful guide to avoiding buying hidden sugar , as well as several very practical and useful bits of information.

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 25 luglio 2017

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Very practical and useful information in an easy to read manner, by probably the greatest sugar expert since the great John Yudkin.
Professor, Dr. Lustig is a credit and one of the new leading lights in the very complicated and ever changing field of nutrition.
He has no ties to big pharmacy and the food industries and devoured to helping consumers like myself how to improve their life and health through diet and nutrition.

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Karen N

Eye opener

Recensito in Canada 🇨🇦 il 10 gennaio 2018

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Eye opener for sure. Everyone looking to improve their health, and especially anyone who can hear diabetes ticking in the distance, needs to read this.

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Nutrition Nut

excellent blueprint for shopping, cooking and eating strategy

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 29 novembre 2013

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I'm a huge fan of Robert Lustig's work. It's incredibly courageous and pioneering. Kudos to him for going back to school to get a law degree (after building a successful pediatric practice in medicine) in order to actually effect real large scale change toward the solution. This is a great tool for people to use to get started making changes on a personal level, in their own kitchens. As a personal trainer and nutrition coach for over ten years, I'll be recommending this ebook as a resource for my clients.

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