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The Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout That Is Making You Fat and Sick | 
 enlarge | Authors: Richard Johnson, Timothy Gower
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 123604
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 1594866651
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.396
EAN: 9781594866654
ASIN: 1594866651
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
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 frightening escalation in our fructose consumption.
It comes as no surprise that the sugar is found in processed foods like candy, baked goods, canned foods, and frozen meals in the form of high-fructose corn syrup, but it is also hidden in less obvious foods like peanut butter, egg products, and soups. Many fruits and vegetables contain high levels of it naturally. Dr. Johnson shows how to cut way back on the sweetener by making effective substitutions. The daily meal plans included here contain no more than 25 grams of fructose, one-quarter of the amount the average American now ingests.
Rather than the low-carb approach of so many recent diets, Dr. Johnson recommends a much easier to enjoy and stick to formula: 50% carbs, 25% fat, and 25% protein. The immediate benefit of this diet is to help anyone shed excess weight. The additional benefits are even more impressive—reduced risk for such serious health problems as high blood pressure, elevated blood fats, and insulin resistance, conditions directly linked to heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, and stroke.
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The dangers of excessive Fructose explained August 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
getting trim and healthy June 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book and read it out of order in a couple of days. I now know why I gained 20 pounds in a single month some 25 years ago. I now have the answer to lose it all plus more that I gained later. I have had an idea that something in our food was making people fat. A lot of people now believe that diabetes is inevitable. Not true. I have known that sugar was bad for you for years but I didn't know the extent until I read this book. I am loaning to 2 people so far and giving it to my daughter who gained some 50 pounds in 3 years. I think this is one of the most important books on health to come along in years. I remember in the 60's, the AMA said your diet didn't make any differnce in your health. How wrong they were. I don't drink soda. I am eliminating all foods from my diet that contain high-fructose corn syrup and will limit all other sources of sugar and fructose. I am going to have to make my own whole wheat bread now.I already use stevia to sweeten tea and coffee. This is a great book. Buy it, read it and get healthy.
Easy menu plans June 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's hard to find a diet book with easy menu plans consisting of foods readily available in most grocery stores and supermarkets. This book has them! The author has a 1200 calorie plan and 1600 calorie and a higher one as well. It would be nice to have more gradations but one can toggle between plans or figure out a gradation. Good way to cleanse body for 14 days of excessive levels of fructose, etc.
Outstanding!!! April 11, 2008
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought and finished this book in 2 days. As a person who has suffered from insulin resistance for years and blessed not to have developed type 2 diabetes, this book was an answer to my prayers!! What should have been common sense to me in regards to overconsumption of sugar laden foods, was not. It took this book to show me just how dangerous HFCS and Fructose really is in large amounts. The diet outlined in the book is surprising at not at all difficult but one must ask themselves, how bad do they want to be healed. It is a small sacrafice for abundant health. I have often asked myself why so many Americans are so fat and unhealthy and now I know why. Thank-you so much Dr. Johnson for such simple yet profound information. Do yourself a favor and purchase this book. I guarantee that it will be an eye opener!!!
Reveals the health problems of high fructose sweeteners April 4, 2008
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
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.
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