The New Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat

I cannot understand why two previous reviewers have called Sugarbusters a low carb diet. It is not a low carb diet. I have tried low carb diets and could not stick with their restrictions. Then I found Sugarbusters and I have been more successful with it than any diet I've tried in the past twenty years, easily losing 50 pounds. It was great, I could eat more fat and I could have sugar-free ice cream, bread and nearly all kinds of fruit. Now where in Atkins diet can you have that?? Sugarbusters cuts out the sugar not the carbs. Carbs are not bad, sugar is.

What I like most in this book is the emphasis on the starch and sugar excess in the American diet and the consequences for the health of the Americans. I totally agree with the authors of the book that the starch and sugar excess in the American diet is the main cause of the American obesity epidemic and related health deterioration and that high-fiber, low glycemic diets are efficient for weight control and weight maintenance.
The book contains a wealth of information and recipes that will make it much easier for an overweight person to trim her/his body mass index back to acceptable level with as bonus a better health!
After reading that book nobody will believe what was written Augustus 12, 2005 on top of the front page in the San Diego Union-Tribune that the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is going to spend $23 million during seven years to learn more about Non Alcoholic Steato-Hepatitis (NASH). NASH is a recently discovered condition of progressive destruction of the liver cells by fat accumulation
The well documented San Diego Union-Tribune article also says that the condition is emerging rapidly on physicians' radar screens, that one out of ten adults has the condition, that it is found increasingly in children and that obesity and diabetes are predisposing factors. The San Diego Union-Tribune does not mention that the fat that amass in the liver of 30 to 75 million Americans and produces NASH in 6 million of them is the fat they make from the excess of starch and sugar in the American diet. The San Diego Union-Tribune does not mention it because none of the researchers cited in the article has made any allusion to it.
Before spending 23 million taxpayers' money on research the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases should order some copies of the book "The New Sugar Busters"!

About a month ago, in an effort at preventitive medicine to lower my cholestorol and resulting high blood sugars, my GP sent me to a cardiovascular surgeon. Well as a person that rarely has gone to doctors I wasn't exactly excited what this guy told me, but, when I asked him to explain what kind of a diet or program I should follow he just said buy the book Sugar Busters and follow what it says .....

I have been on all kinds of diets before (who hasn't) and every time some Doctor tried to explain to concepts to me they generally lasted only short periods since the darn diets just didn't make any sense, and it just felt like pieces were missing in the overall puzzle of chemistry in they body related to proteins, carbohydrates, sugars, chloesterol, good bad etc etc.....

What a great surprise this book was to me. Not only does it tie all the pieces together and explain its' diet as the 'Sugarbusters way of eating is roughly 40 percent carbohydrates 30 percent protein and 30 percent fat, it is a balanced diet' that makes overall sense.....

The authors go to great detail to explain the functions of the pancreas, the purposes of insulin, glucanol and exactly what happens when you eat a high protein meal vs a high cargohydrate meal....

For example, the book explains that "The glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how much of a specific amount of ingested carbohydrate (usually 50 grams) will cause a persons blood sugar to rise and remain elevated over time relative to the effect on blood sugar of the same amount of pure glucose (which is assigned a GI of 100)... NOW HERE's THE SHOCKER FOR ME the book continues that to "compare the potatoes blood stimulating effect realtive to table sugar is that it would take 118 grams of sugar to have the same impact as one potato. That is 29 1/2 teaspoons of sugar ... WOW all that from one miserable white potato ....

From a historical perspective the book explains that sugar is not even mentioned in the bible and is a modern phenomena dating back only to 500 AD .... obviously the authors have the hots against processed sugars, flour, white potatoes, even white rice (surprising to me cause I thought that rice was a salvation for me .... WRONG) .... The authors also do something that I would have thought was ABSOLUTE BLASPHEMY and even HERECY in that they talk about the famous US goverment food pyramid, that even my dog knows by heart, and advise the reader the this pyramid was formed after many battles with the sugar lobby, the flour lobby, the potato lobby, meat people, egg people, milk people etc etc etc ... needless to say the resulting pyramid is more than suspect, for lack of using stronger words .......

Ok .. so you get the picture ... and as an added bonus this book contains som 100 pages of recepies from restaurants around the US that are in line with the Sugar Busters diet ....

This is one FABULOUS book that is well written, easy to understand, clear cut (don't really need a PhD in chemistry to understand it)and I feel is a definive answer to all those bits and pieces of diet information and stupid, misleading and politically correct food pyramids that I have been exposed to over my 'sugar eating' lifetime.....

Weight Watchers meets Atkins. The best of both worlds. Eat healthy and lose weight long term without counting calories or points or other nonsense. Personally recommended by my physician, a top Internist.

The New Sugar Busters! is more than an expansion of the original book. The authors take what was, five years ago, a radical approcach to weight loss, and back it up with more thorough explanations of how and why a low glycemic diet is best for weight loss. The new book does nothing to change the basic approach to a low-sugar, correct carbohydrate lifestyle, but it does offer additional information based on the scientific evidence that now supports the basic premise of Sugar Busters!

I have been following Sugar Busters for 2 1/2 years and have lost over 50 lbs. I believe that the new edition makes a convincing argument for why Sugar Busters is not a low-carb diet and should not be lumped in with Atkins, Protein Power, and other low-carb diets. If you are looking for a nutritional plan to help bring in a healthier and leaner new year, then the New Sugar Busters may be just what you need!