Authored by three MDs and a CEO of a Fortune 500 company who say that if you cut your sugar intake you will lose weight, lower your cholesterol, achieve optimal wellness, increase your energy and help treat diabetes and other diseases. Whew! A lot of readers have been buying off on this; the book has been on the Times best-seller list for 25 weeks. The point. Refined sugar in any significant quantity is toxic. Why? Not to mention that it dissolves teeth, sugar causes the pancreas to secrete insulin which stores fat and makes too much cholesterol. The bottom line: Lay off sugar Some of the big ideas in the book. Read labels on food you buy and go with those that have little or no added sugar. It's OK to drink red wine in moderation. Chew food well (your stomach doesn't have teeth); this has a lot to do with how you absorb it. Corn, potatoes, processed cereal, white flour are bad, beans, green veggies, peas and sweet potatoes are good as are grapefruit, tomatoes, nuts and apricots among others on the list. The book's early chapters tell perhaps more than you want to know about the physiological reasons sugar is bad for you. There is a food "good & bad" list plus a meal plan to help you change your life.

Several months ago, as I was feeling completely at the mercy of tight clothes and rising numbers on the scale, several friends told me about the Atkins Diet and Protein Power. I did some research on the internet and concluded that I didn't think I could live with either of those plans. I stumbled onto the Sugar Busters book in the process and purchased it from Amazon. I started Sugar Busting on 6/6/01 and have lost 16 pounds so far. I do not have those same panicked, shaky feelings if I'm not consuming food all the time. When I'm hungry, it's an *awareness* that I'm empty and need filling. It took a week of feeling kind of lousy while following the program, and since then, I have never felt better. This is a way of eating that I can live with forever. I'm sure I've become an annoying evangelical Sugar Buster but I tell everyone I know (whether they have weight to lose or not) to try Sugar Busters for two weeks and see if they don't feel better.

For all of you who have given this book an unfavorable review...I wonder if you actually read the book. I'm sorry but the proof lies in my latest lab test results! My cholestral is down from 278 to 172 in just six and a half months, and my weight has dropped from 204 to 132! Before Sugar Busters my blood sugar was so out of control, at times I literally couldn't think straight. I moved throughout the day at a snail's pace, wondering every waking moment, as to why I felt awful all the time. This plan is not in any way, shape or form a high protein, low carbohydrate fad such as the dangerous Adtkins diet. If you think that eating meat, eliminating refined carbohydrate, in place of whole grains, eliminating sugar, and eating more fruits and vegetables is ''dangerous'' then you are simply a foolish person! I was able to lose 72 lbs. in 61/2 months while eating lasagne, pizza, tacos...you name it. You just have to make the necessary modifications....which are easy, providing you use whole grain products. To further illustrate my point....I paid $89 ten years ago for Susan Powter's Stop the Insanity. What a joke! Another one of those, high REFINED carb, low fat, sugar is just fine fiascos that just do not work! After one month, I had not lost anything while following the program religiously. Sugar Busters has given me my life back...and the reviewers who discourage people from trying this are doing many a grave injustice!

This cook book is a great tool for the Sugar Busters diet. When we started Sugar Busters before the holidays, I lost 10 pounds and my boyfriend lost over 15 (in less than 2 months!). It is great to have a cook book to aid with the concept of Sugar Busters. Diabetes runs in my family and I am CONVINCED that if I had not changed my eating habits that I was well on my way to having diabetes myself. I no longer crave carbohydrates in the afternoon and as a result I don't have that dip in energy in the late afternoon that I have experienced for years. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has struggled with weight loss. Some of the recipes may be a little higher in fat....but for those of us who were addicted to carbohydrates, this diet will do amazing things for both your health, energy level and weight!

I have followed the Sugar Busters diet successfully for sometime now. The Sugar Busters Quick & Easy Cookbook has really helped me stay on the plan. The recipes are delicious and easy. Please tell the authors we are ready for another.

Great recipes!I started this "lifestyle change" three weeks ago, and have lost 11 pounds.I've tried just about every fad diet...high-carb,high-protein,you name it.Sugar Busters is different-it's not something you do for two weeks.It's a lifestyle change.This cookbook has made meals easier for me because it provides you with lots of great alternatives.The authors do not suggest you cut out all carbs or eat fatty foods.It truly is a healthier way to eat!

This book may include more up-to-date statistics or info; but if you've read any of the other Sugar Buster books, you've got the concept. I found nothing new that was all that revealing. What I appreciate most is more new and easy recipes to help keep this lifestyle of eating interesting.

The Sugar Busters book was not only a rehash of the book before, it was a rehash of itself - if you actually take the time to read it straight through, you'll notice that half the content is the same material repeated over and over. And the print IS obnoxiously large.
However, if you are picking up Sugar Busters for the first time, this book is a great way to get the basic facts about the low-glycemic, right carbohydrate format of this diet, in a little more detail than the previous edition. The charts, recipes, and label information makes it easy to get started, and the lists of "acceptable" foods makes it easy to stick with it. The book is written in a simplistic, gimmicky format, but the diet makes sense - and it works.

About a month ago, in an effort at preventitive medicine to lower my cholestorol and resulting high blood sugars, my GP sent me to a cardiovascular surgeon. Well as a person that rarely has gone to doctors I wasn't exactly excited what this guy told me, but, when I asked him to explain what kind of a diet or program I should follow he just said buy the book Sugar Busters and follow what it says .....

I have been on all kinds of diets before (who hasn't) and every time some Doctor tried to explain to concepts to me they generally lasted only short periods since the darn diets just didn't make any sense, and it just felt like pieces were missing in the overall puzzle of chemistry in they body related to proteins, carbohydrates, sugars, chloesterol, good bad etc etc.....

What a great surprise this book was to me. Not only does it tie all the pieces together and explain its' diet as the 'Sugarbusters way of eating is roughly 40 percent carbohydrates 30 percent protein and 30 percent fat, it is a balanced diet' that makes overall sense.....

The authors go to great detail to explain the functions of the pancreas, the purposes of insulin, glucanol and exactly what happens when you eat a high protein meal vs a high cargohydrate meal....

For example, the book explains that "The glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how much of a specific amount of ingested carbohydrate (usually 50 grams) will cause a persons blood sugar to rise and remain elevated over time relative to the effect on blood sugar of the same amount of pure glucose (which is assigned a GI of 100)... NOW HERE's THE SHOCKER FOR ME the book continues that to "compare the potatoes blood stimulating effect realtive to table sugar is that it would take 118 grams of sugar to have the same impact as one potato. That is 29 1/2 teaspoons of sugar ... WOW all that from one miserable white potato ....

From a historical perspective the book explains that sugar is not even mentioned in the bible and is a modern phenomena dating back only to 500 AD .... obviously the authors have the hots against processed sugars, flour, white potatoes, even white rice (surprising to me cause I thought that rice was a salvation for me .... WRONG) .... The authors also do something that I would have thought was ABSOLUTE BLASPHEMY and even HERECY in that they talk about the famous US goverment food pyramid, that even my dog knows by heart, and advise the reader the this pyramid was formed after many battles with the sugar lobby, the flour lobby, the potato lobby, meat people, egg people, milk people etc etc etc ... needless to say the resulting pyramid is more than suspect, for lack of using stronger words .......

Ok .. so you get the picture ... and as an added bonus this book contains som 100 pages of recepies from restaurants around the US that are in line with the Sugar Busters diet ....

This is one FABULOUS book that is well written, easy to understand, clear cut (don't really need a PhD in chemistry to understand it)and I feel is a definive answer to all those bits and pieces of diet information and stupid, misleading and politically correct food pyramids that I have been exposed to over my 'sugar eating' lifetime.....