The Sugar Control Bible and Cookbook: The Complete Nutrition Guide to Revitalizing Your Health

By Jacqueline L. Paltis

Book Overview

Complete nutrition guide to a pleasurable and satisfying program that revitalizes your health by getting you off the sugar/refined foods roller coaster. This prescription for health uses higher... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892241021
• ISBN13: 9781892241023
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: New Energy Dynamics
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Saved my life

This book saved both mine and my husbands life. We each lost 40lbs (no exercise!) - and for the first time in my 33 years of life my body responded to it by giving me a regular menstrual cycle - since i was a teen I would only get my period every once every couple of years. It had been 6 years since my last cycle when i started this diet within 7 days I got my period and have had a 28 day regular cycle ever since. It blew my doctors away. My husband who comes from a long line of sleep apnea sufferers, within 5 days on this 'diet' stopped snoring completely. He went from only sleeping 2 hours a night to 8 straight hours. His depression (from us losing everything in hurricane Katrina) went away and I can even tell when he does accidentally get some sugar in his diet becuase he snores a little. But when he is strict on the program - no snoring - no leg kicking - no sleep apnea. AMAZING! I feel like the love child of Tom Arnold and Robin Williams this way of life gives my body so much energy and my mind so much focus. Awesome Awesom Awesome!

What A Life Transformation

My Kinesiologist/Chiropractor/Homeopathic doctor recommended this book along with his treatment. He stressed to me that weight loss is a side effect of the program--feeling good is the goal. I've lost 16lbs; referred my mom who has cut her cholesterol and reflux meds in half(and lost 22 lbs; my dad who has lost over 30 lbs and is no longer on high blood pressure medication(he was on 3); and my supervisor who hasn't 'fessed up any specifics but says she feels a lot better overall. We all still go to our internists for medication management and keep each doctor informed of the other's treatment plan. GREAT RESOURCE BOOK!

A True Wake-up Call

I decided to buy this book after my chiropractor put me on this diet to help with the chronic lower back pain I've been dealing with for about 6 months now. So I bought the book to learn more about this crazy diet I was supposed to follow. I read the book cover to cover in about 2 days. Not only are all of the nutritional facts fascinating, it was also wonderful to read about how she came to this diet herself and the success her patients have had with it. I can proudly say that by following this diet, under the supervision of my chiropractor, I feel better than I have in months. The pain isn't completely gone yet, but I've made significant improvements in a short month's time, compared to the endless months I spent in physical therapy and seeing countless other doctors who were simply trying to treat my symptoms. This diet is actually quite easy to follow, and Paltis does a great job answering the most common questions that naturally arise when one considers cutting sugar out of their diet. I lost 10 pounds in a month, have much more energy, and for the first time in quite a while, I feel like I am truly taking good care of my body. If you want to get off the sugar see-saw, this book will help you do it!!!!

Cure the source, don't treat the symptoms

This should be required reading for Everyone. Americans are ranked somewhere around 16 in terms of health. The 'modern', 'civilized' western diet obviously doesn't work, given the alarming increases in obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc. Traditional western medicine doesn't work because it focuses on illness and death, not prevention and cure. * Good nutrition is the cornerstone to well-being. * Unfortunately, determining what 'good nutrition' is in America is a daunting task. Worse, even if you do have good guidelines to help you, there are plenty of potential pitfalls out there. Who would think there would be sugar in lunchmeats, for example? Who would think that there may be sugar in canned fruits, even those labeled 'unsweetened' or 'no sugar added'? How do you eat well when the term 'carbohydrate' encompasses everything from wholesome complex carbohydrates to refined sugar? Similar to the second reviewer, my acupuncturist also recommended I read this. It is concise, truthful, up-to-date and right on the money. It's horrifying, but it is just the ammunition we need to help balance out the lies perpetuated by the media, food industry, pharmaceutical industry, medical establishment, government, etc. in the US. While I wouldn't trade our capitalist processes for anything (I've lived abroad, and have learned the good outweighs the bad) nonetheless there are too many economic incentives for the above mentioned to keep us sick, instead of curing us. Even if you're not as sensitive to sugar and refined carbohydrates as I am, you could still benefit from eating 'clean'. The human body is remarkably adaptable, the end result being we adapt to refined foods and may not become sick outright, but instead, begin the gentle but inexorable downward spiral from health to not feeling well, to disease finally. Traditional western medicine doesn't seem to care about this continuum from health to the start of disease; I can vouch for that. I spent many frustrated years taking all sorts of tests (blood tests, etc) and having doctors smile and tell me I was perfectly normal, when I certainly didn't feel that way at all. I attribute the high quality of life I have today to the following: my chiropractor, my acupuncturist, following the 'diet' in the Sugar Control Bible (if you could call it a diet), Ezekiel 4:9 live sprout bread (we LOVE the Cinnamon and Raisin) and 20 minutes of Pilates a day (I found the Pilates for Dummies DVD to be the best).All diets are do-able. But sustainable? Ah, now that's the key. This is the first set of guidelines I've followed that is both do-able and sustainable.

A new me!

My doctor introduced me to this way of eating by having me try the two week plan. I had my reservations and all the reasons why I could not follow it. but I said I'd try it for two weeks--but no more. I began eating the Sugar Control Program three months ago and will never go back to my old way of eating. I have so much more energy now and I like the food. I'm never hungry and grocery shopping is so very easy: I shop on the outside paramenters of the grocery store. In otherwords, I eat all fresh food now.I bought the book to learn more about why this works and found it to be very helpful in learning how the body handles nutrients and what the body needs to function properly. Ms Paltis also gives some background on TBM (Total BOdy modification) and using functional physiology in learning how the body works. This book is a great guide and reference if you want to learn improved ways of functioning.