The Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout That Is Making You Fat and Sick

by Richard J. Johnson and Timothy Gower

Book Overview

In The Sugar Fix, Dr. Richard Johnson, who oversees a pioneering research program, reports on discoveries about how fructose impacts the body--and directly connects the American obesity epidemic to a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594866651
• ISBN13: 9781594866654
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A life saver

This is a must read book. I have a kidney problem caused by high fructose corn syrup. I have quit drinking soda pop for two weeks and will NEVER drink that poison again... I feel much better my blood sugar has dropped to normal without meds and I lost 6lbs. Yes, HFCS causes stage II diabetes. HFCS is a designer drug that is added to garbage foods to make them taste good. Young children are at a severe risk. Fruit juices have HFCS in them and should never be given to children. Young children should only drink water and milk... Beware of baby foods with HFCS in them....

The Sugar Fix by Richard Johnson, MD with Timothy Gower

This book gives some interesting research based facts about the sugars that we consume everyday of our lives. Table sugar contains both glucose and fructose and the body handles them differently. Glucose will give you more energy than fat, fructose will give you more fat than energy. High fructose corn syrup is even worse since it fails to trigger the hormone that tells us when we are full and it is time to stop eating. In other words one cookie or piece of cake or pie or soft drink or scoop of ice cream makes room for another. High fructose corn syrup is found in almost all manufactured foods. Start checking labels and avoid it if you want to control your weight and keep healthy. The book is available in paper back.

Sugar concern

If you are a consumer of processed food, you should read this book. AND, if you are concerned about your health/physical condition/ body fat ... this is a must. Why do so many of the foods and drinks we consume contain high-fructose corn syrup? It's cheap, easy to manufacture and tastes great! BUT, what does it do to your body? We may never realize the importance of 'returning to nature and the basics' but this book gives you an insight into what you are consuming and why YOU may becoming unhealthy simply because of the foods you eat that contain high-fructose corn syrup.

The dangers of excessive Fructose explained

This book is a must have for the health conscious or for those looking for how to really lose weight. The author presents the inherent dangers of excessive fructose in the standard American diet and the damage it causes.A high fructose diet causes the body to increase its levels of uric acid which leads to high blood pressure and obesity. Fructose is the sugar naturally found in fruit and is an additive in most processed foods. The book presents a low fructose diet and advises the use of mainly starchy carbohydrates and the avoidance of all fructose for the first two weeks of the diet. After the first two weeks you can add a few pieces of fruit to the diet. The diet is well balanced between carbohydrates, protein, and fat. I have read 100 diet and health books and have lost 50 pounds myself on the Zone Diet which is very close to this one. I highly recommend this book for losing weight and for having better health. It really explains the damage that excessive fructose does to the body and what foods to avoid which contain it.

Reveals the health problems of high fructose sweeteners

This book is a well written and quite readable fount of useful information about sugar and especially about the relatively new sweetener called high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) was developed a little more than 35 tears ago. It has one big advantage, it's the most inexpensive sugar available. But it has the disadvantage of being very unhealthy when consumed in large quantities, in which it currently is consumed because of its low cost. High fructose corn syrup can cause obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes among other ailments and all of these ailments have increased dramatically since HFCS has come to be the most popular sweetener currently in use. HFCS is used in a large number of foods not normally thought of as containing sugar -- including bread, ketchup, and baby food -- but a major source of this unhealthy sweetener in modern American diets is soft drinks and sweetened fruit drinks, which are frequently dispensed these days in super-size quantities. Yes, fruits -- which are good for us -- contain the sugar fructose but in very small amounts, because fructose is very sweet. And humans have safely been eating fruits for a hundred thousand years or more. But high fructose corn syrup in food and soft drinks has increased the amount of fructose which Americans now consume by a much as ten times the amount our ancestors got from fruit and this unnatural increase, as this book points out, has resulted in dangerous increases in obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Please read this book and learn about the risks of this dangerous food product and how to minimize them.