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 Losin

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.

I just finished reading Beat Sugar Addiction Now! And it definitely has me convinced. I had a hard time believing how perfectly I fit the profile for a person with rampant and serious yeast overgrowth. Yet even now I am having a hard time agreeing to give up the sugar. Just thinking about a world without my daily Starbucks drink and without my favorite cookies is a sad thought. Of course this just goes to show that sugar really is a drug, because how can I still want to eat something when everything I have just read proves, without a shadow of a doubt, that every time I eat it I am making myself sicker and feeding the yucky fungus that has pervaded my body. I guess I need to do one last hurrah and then bid farewell to my favorite sugary snacks. I know this book favors a gradual cutback and not a shock to the system, but at this point I do eat so many sweets that even a cutback will make a big difference in the amount of stuff I eat. I am trying to figure out what to stop eating first, but I know I need to take that first step and this was truly the book that showed me that I have a problem.

This book has strategies and helpful ideas for treating all kinds of sugar-related health problems. Dr. Teitelbaum uses a combination of scientific information and common sense advice to convince readers that they can take charge of their lives and their health. The tone is comforting and supportive which can mean a lot for people struggling with these types of illnesses. The first section, which describes different types of sugar addicts and the problems they face, is particularly captivating. Readers are sure to recognize themselves in the detailed descriptions and knowing that they are not alone and that their problems are not unique is sure to help them find the courage to take on their addictions and make the necessary changes in diet and lifestyle. While the information presented in this book is sobering and potentially depressing, it is written in an inspiring way and this book will help a lot of people find hope and a brighter future. One recurrent theme in this book is the unwillingness and/or inability of many conventional doctors to recognize the role that diet plays in treating common health problems such as migraines, sinus infections, and anxiety. The need for patients to find holistic practitioners comes up several times in this reading. Why are conventional western medical practitioners so slow to pick up on what so many of us have already known for years: that what you put into your body affects everything about the way your body functions? This seems like common sense and standard western medicine has certainly acknowledged the crucial role that diet plays in diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. You are what you eat, so if you are eating a lot of sugar and starch, then it is no wonder that you are probably experiencing a plethora of medical ailments. Sugars and starches are basically empty calories, nutritionally defunct and sure to cause a ton of side effects. I would have liked to see more written in this book about the connections between sugar addiction and other kinds of addiction. It is well known that alcoholics often crave sugar as do heroin addicts. In fact, in some areas of the South(most notably in New Orleans in my experience) restaurants serve two kinds of sweet iced tea: "regular" (still shockingly sweet by northern standards or to someone who doesn't consume a lot of sweetened food or beverages) and "junkie tea"-iced tea which has been saturated with so much sugar that most people find it virtually undrinkable. To me, the fact that people with serious problems like heroin addiction also commonly crave huge amounts of sugar exemplifies that fact that sugar is a drug. It is a serious drug with serious side effects, and if it were to come up for FDA approval today, I wonder if it would even pass. I also tend to think a lot about the history of sugar. Sugar production played a vital role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, making it a product that was, historically speaking, ethically problema

Who isn't concerned about the fact that food manufacturers put sugar in EVERYTHING? And who isn't concerned about how much sugar we are consuming? Beat Sugar Addiction Now! gives real insight into how our body interacts with sugar in all its forms. Far from being a "Nutrition Nazi", Dr. Teitelbaum outlines how you can enjoy your meals, and even carbohydrates in moderation. He gives practical, step by step advice on how to greatly reduce sugar in your diet--and specifically how these changes will benefit you. The sections in each chapter titled "Your Wellness Prescription" give a list of interventions to address everything form migraines to indigestion to fatigue to sinusitis, etc. I found the book written in an intelligent yet understandable manner, and the index was quite useful to jump to chapters in which I was particularly interested.

Carbohydrate craving is a major cause of obesity. Dr. Teitelbaum is the world's foremost chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia expert and has encountered the four main causes of sugar and carbohydrate addiction in many of these patients. The four main types of sugar addiction are easily identified with the questionaires in this workbook. More importantly, effective treatments for the four main causes of sugar addiction are explained. I was especially pleased to read the explanation of estrogen deficiency as a cause of low serotonin and carbohydrate craving. Estrogen is needed to open the female Serotonin receptor and many estrogen deficient women are self treating their Serotonin deficiency with carbohydrates which provide a brief Serotonin increase. Sadly, over publicized, poorly designed studies using overdoses of horse estrogens (Premarin) have misled many people to overgeneralize problems with horse estrogens, to human estrogens. We frequently encounter the hypoglycemia, adrenal exhaustion, fungal overgrowth and Estrogen deficiency versions of sugar addiction at Florida Detox and Wellness Institute and agree with Dr. Teitelbaum that they are hidden causes of sugar addiction. This book is very readable, even for non scientists. Dr. Teitelbaum reveals he was once a sugar addict and provides sugar addicts an effective compassionate solution in this book. If you are a sugar addict read this book and take your life back. Steven Sponaugle Research Director, Florida Detox and Wellness Institute