Get
the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar in Any Diet
by Ann Louise Gittleman
Reviews
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"Avoiding sugar is the easiest, safest,
and most permanent way to stay slim" is the bold promise nutritionist Ann
Louise Gittleman makes in her book Get the Sugar Out. Gittleman,
who also authored Beyond
Pritikin, gives the hard facts about why refined sugar contributes
to weight gain, mood swings, weak immunity, diabetes, and more. Low-fat
diets, the book claims, frequently let people down, because manufactured
fat-free foods often contain more sugar than their full-fat counterparts!
Don't be fooled, though: ridding your diet
of sugar will not be an easy task. The 501 tips provided in the book may
seem rather daunting at times. Luckily, Gittleman doesn't expect you to
incorporate all of them into your life. She notes, "Even if you incorporate
only one-tenth of the tips in this book, you're sure to reduce the sugar
in your diet and change your life in a positive and noticeable way." So
even if you find it's too difficult to give up your diet sodas, you can
still improve your health by learning all the names sugar hides under (including
tongue twisters such as xylitol, sorghum syrup, mannitol, and maltodextrin)
and avoiding products that contain them. Some of Gittleman's suggestions,
though, are not only simple, but fun. For example, you can substitute frozen
grapes, raspberries, and blueberries for hard candy. This easy-to-read
book even has 50 delicious recipes (how about Peanut Butter Muffins or
"Gone Nutty" Frozen Bananas?) and a week's menu to get you started. So
if you're ready to get going on "a satisfying, high-energy, low-sugar regimen,"
this just may be the book for you. - Jenny Brown
From Booklist, August 19, 1996
Her anti-sugar message may fall on deaf
ears, since Americans consume more than 150 pounds of the sweet substance
per capita each year. Some of her more than 500 tips place too stringent
a regimen on those used to eating moderate amounts of desserts. Nonetheless,
Gittleman proffers sound advice amid the harsh proselytizing. Scattered
throughout the tips are 50 recipes, from carrot butter to frozen parsnip
dessert, that help encourage everyone to eliminate sugar and learn to enjoy
a more healthful lifestyle. Barbara Jacobs - Copyright© 1996, American
Library Association. All rights reserved
Synopsis
An up-to-date, comprehensive guide to reducing
the sugar in one's diet features more than fifty recipes for low-sugar
meals and desserts, along with tips on reading food labels and ratings
of popular foods. 25,000 first printing.
Synopsis
This timely book is aimed at the millions
of people whose low-fat diets aren't providing the health benefits and
weight loss they expect. The reason? The "healthy" promise of low-fat products
masks the excessively high levels of cornstarch, sucrose, and other forms
of sugar. More than 50 recipes make Get the Sugar Out a great guide to
low-sugar adaptations of favorite meals, snacks, drinks and desserts.
Customer Comments
A reader from Arkansas,
May 31, 1999
This book was very practical and certainly
kept my attention
I felt that this was an excellently written
and was easy to read. I had read "Sugar Blues" immediately before this
and "Get the Sugar Out" was most definitely a far superb book. It
seemed to stick to the subject and appeared to stay more with facts. "Sugar
Blues" seemed to be more opinionated and outdated. All in all "Get
the Sugar Out" was very helpful and useful to me. After reading it
I can certainly never look at sugar the same or eat it without feeling
guilty. The book brings up points about sugar that I have never thought
of before. I have began to eliminate sugar from my diet and I am amazed
at where sugar is hidden in every day food that I never dreamed would have
sugar. I have already began to notice a tremendous difference in my energy
level and have lost a couple of pounds. I would highly recommend reading
this book to anyone who is interested in bettering their physical and mental
well being.
A reader from Southern California,
February 21, 1999
Really Helpful Especially for Weight
Loss
After following the advice in GET THE
SUGAR OUT, I MANAGED TO LOSE TEN POUNDS IN TWO WEEKS... all of those
nasty carbs created water retention, allergic responses and food cravings...
just like the book says. I think every mother should buy this book to learn
how to feed her kids and her family correctly. The problem, as the author
points out, is that sugar is in everything... it's time to GET THE SUGAR
OUT ...and feel better all over, might I add. I did, and I do!!!!!!!
simonsilk@aol.com from Santa
Fe, New Mexico, October 31, 1998
A must for every man, woman and child
eating food today
This is one of the most user friendly and
easy to understand books on the dangers of sugar that I have ever read.
I highly recommend this to every body who thinks that fat is the arch enemy.
The recipes are even fairly decent... but the info is top of the line.
A reader from McPherson,
Kansas, October 1, 1998
Finally, the real truth about carbohydrates!
This book is a must! Diabetics who are adhering
to high carb diets, thinking they are doing the right thing need to see
this information! People who are so involved with trying to cut all fat
from their diets only to add in more sugars need to see this! Ann tells
the whole truth about simple sugars in our diets. The things we were taught
by the nutritionists to believe were complex carbs - like bread, pasta,
etc. have been corrupted by the use of enriched flours instead of whole
wheat. The consumer need to know the truth - and needs to start reading
labels and start shopping for the good stuff. Real food - not the boxed
stuff.
I find this book an essential to those who
believe that the sugar substitutes are a great salvation. She gives the
real scoop on those as well. Others who would not believe (the diet soda
addicts) must see this information for themselves!
* * *
People DO have various problems with life.
Instead of naming and redefining these problems as various "mental diseases",
and labeling people with them, as is currently done within the psychiatric
community, these problems with life and living are best understood and
addressed outside of the traditional psychiatric paradigm. Why?
Because psychiatric "treatments" such as ECT, lobotomy, and powerful psychotropic
drugs are barbaric, based upon severe faulty scientific methodology, and
quite simply, harm people.
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