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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Berkley Trade | | Page Count: | 416 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 26, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 24,818th |
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A provocative exposŽ of the negative effects of sugars and simple carbs-and how to break the addiction. Most readers already know that succumbing to sweets too often can lead to obesity and diabetes. What many don't know, however, is that too many "quickie carbs" can bring on a host of other maladies-such as "brain fog," fatigue, mood swings, heart disease, and even cancer-from which millions may be suffering because of their sugar or carbohydrate habits. Once besieged by 44 seemingly unconnected symptoms, former "sugar addict" Connie Bennett, an experienced journalist, managed to kick sweets and simple carbs in 1998. She improved her health-and uncovered extensive medical research that substantiated her theory: people who eat too many low-caliber culprit carbs could be in sugar shock. Based on the insights of thousands of physicians, nutritionists, researchers, and "sugar sufferers" worldwide, SUGAR SHOCK!(tm) not only addresses how badly sugar affects the body, it demonstrates how everyone can kick the sugar habit. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 64 reviews)
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Sugar Shock Does the Trick by Karin M. Anderson (Dallas)  5 Stars
November 20, 2009
I bought this book hoping that it would convince me to get off sugar now. I had been knowing I should do it but lacked the will to make it happen. There is such a wealth of information here about the disastrous consequences of eating sugar and simple carbs that I am finally willing to take the leap. Great book with lots of really excellent references to convince anyone.
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Now I know what the problem has been! by Carol M. Goss (Alabama) 5 Stars
October 20, 2009
All my life I've struggled with sugar cravings. I could have eaten sweets all day every day. If I'd take one donut I'd be finishing the box before I knew it. I suffered from PMS, mood swings, aches and pains, frequent headaches and obesity. NOW I KNOW WHY!!
After some blood work 6 weeks ago I decided that now was the time to change my way of eating. I'm 54 years old and my blood pressure is too high, my cholesterol is too high and my cardiac risk indicators were also elevated. I stopped eating sugar and white flour and starches. I eat only low glycemic fruits an vegetables and lean meats. I eat yogurt sweetened with fruit for desserts and snacks.
In 6 weeks I've lost 18 pounds and I feel so much better! I do realize that some of that weight is fluid but at least I'm not carrying it around anymore. I've dropped a pants size already and I can breathe well again! I haven't yet repeated my blood work but I have a feeling that it is already much improved.
A huge surprise was the elimination of the headaches and body aches. I "feel" good all over. I'm not dead tired at the end of the day and my mental and emotional outlooks are so much better.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants improve their quality of life. I am eternally grateful to the author for all the research and hard work and for sharing it with us.
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AWESOME GOOD RESOURCE!!!!! by Vanessa Farquhar 5 Stars
June 05, 2009
I have just started reading Sugar Shock. I bought this book after many, many hours looking for a book that would steer me in the right direction. I've enjoyed reading this book so far. I'm only in chapter 4. I'm already getting so much from the book.
Here is a updated: Awesome book! I loved this book. It's more about what sugar does to your body. Tips at the end of the book help give points on how to cut sugar. This is more of a ecucational book that helps gives you a look at what your doing yo yourself. I loved this book!! It really gave me a view of what is happening with my body not just my emotions.
Connie has a website www.sugarshock.com. I hope that you find this not has a solution but a push to help you go towards your goal. Her book gave lots and lots information from people who are well educated in the sugar research.
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SUGAR SHOCK-Great book by True disciple (New York, ny) 5 Stars
March 21, 2009
Sugar Shock I would to have to say is one of the greatest books that I've read to break down my health problems.
Like many other who've written, I was a true sugar addict. I hoarded sweets: twizzlers, cookies, donuts, granola bars, cereal bars, sugary cereals. I ate it all. I was so addicted to it. I had no idea that this sugar was linked to my freqent bouts of irritability, negativity, and brain fog. This is the danger of refined sugar. Refined sugar, having no fiber or protein, goes straight to your blood stream and spikes it. Your brain, getting its form of energy from glucose in your blood, now is disrupted from doing so caused by the spike in the blood stream. Insulin then has to be released to lower the blood sugar level, and many times it becomes too low. So your brain can't function properly with the low sugar. The result-- panic, anxiety, irritability, mood swings, frustration, anger. It can make you go crazy. This is the effects of eating refined sugar.
Before I read this book, I would have never linked to it to refined sugar, but now I know that that along with wheat, pretty much white flour, stripped of all the fiber, is the cause for all these blood-sugar disruptions.
Ever since I got rid of the sugary foods and floury foods, the brain fog, the irritability, the negativity, has all gone. It's all over. For me, it lasted like three years. Now today, I'm pretty much done with refined sugar, no more soda, no more twizzlers (and I was addicted to twizzlers), no more fruit juice, jelly and all the sugary stuff. And the other bad part about refined sugar is it is so addictive. Any time I ate cookies, I had at least 8 with many times going to 15-20 cookies at one sitting. Sometimes I would just finish the whole pack at one sitting. Twizzlers, 20-25 twizzlers at once. Same with cereal, the whole box at once. Refined is so addictive.
I thank Connie Bennett so much for writing this book. This has helped me profusely. The days of irritability are over. Does this mean I don't eat sugar anymore? Of course not. Now I eat sugar in its natural form. Fruit is sweet and being that its loaded with fiber, it doesn't cause blood sugar fluctuations, assuming you eat one at a time, which is the rule for fruit eating. I eat dried fruit, which tastes just like candy, without the bad side effects. Dates, dried strawberries and other fruits are all great alternatives.
My advice to you all: eat natural sugar, what God provides, fruits and dried fruits and raw honey, stevia leaves, or dates to sweeten foods. It's when we eat the unnatural foods, stripped, processed, heated, that consequences result.
Kudos again to Connie Bennett and all who figured out this sugar shock connection.
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A "must" for every mother! by Laura Foster 5 Stars
February 16, 2009
Connie has done a masterful job of articulating the "hell" caused by sugar addictions. This book is a "must" for every mother who wants to raise a healthy child. Far beyond empty calories and tooth decay, Connie shows how sugar consumption causes chronic inflammation which is destructive to every organ in the body (including the brain!!) I think it's time for "Sugar Shock Block Parties"- let creative Mom's think of great ways to eliminate sugar from their children's diet!
Way to go Connie - Thank You!!
Laura Foster
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