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Year of No Sugar

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Year of No Sugar

By: Eve O. Schaub
Narrated by: Hillary Huber, John Lee
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Where is your sugar coming from? Most likely everywhere. Sure, it's in ice cream and cookies, but what scared Eve O. Schaub was the secret world of sugar - hidden in bacon, crackers, salad dressing, pasta sauce, chicken broth, and baby food. With her eyes open by the work of obesity expert Dr. Robert Lustig and others, Eve challenged her husband and two school-age daughters to join her on a quest to eat no added sugar for an entire year. Along the way, Eve uncovered the real costs of our sugar-heavy American diet including diabetes, obesity, and increased incidences of health problems such as heart disease and cancer. The stories, tips, and recipes she shares throw fresh light on questionable nutritional advice we've been following for years and show that it is possible to eat at restaurants and go grocery shopping - with less and even no added sugar.

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©2014 Eve O. Schaub (P)2014 Tantor Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Memoir Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

"The diary I wish I had kept...the adventures of her family, the roadblocks they encountered, and the sheer daily difficulty of overcoming a national obsession." (From the foreword by David Gillespie, author of Sweet Poison)
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Table sugar is not Fructose, it is Sucrose. Glucose is not “healthy sugar” and Fructose “bad sugar”. Glucose in excess is also bad. High density lipoprotein is the good stuff, not the bad… but the message that we all eat too much, that it’s hidden in many forms in nearly everything, that it is like poison to us, that is all correct and well illustrated.

Factually incorrect but the message is correct

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There were one or two good tips but this
is just a blog. Excellent narrator.

Making a drama where there was none

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Interesting read. Inspired me to quit sugar and read ALL the labels. Well written and read.

Fabulous

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Amazing just as an anthropological study of what the food industry in the US is doing to the population. I've worked in advertising for many years and seen the destruction caused by these massive brands. The peer pressure to consume toxic food. A very important book and should be a warning to Europe which is next in line for US style obesity.

Should be compulsory reading

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What an amazing journey Eve is a natural story teller and the narration was so good I thought it was author narration as it seemed to capture the emotion in the story so well.

The story was a great journey and I read it because I’m on a journey with sugar myself. I was inspired by seeing how the author approached this with her family. As well as a great exposé on sugar I thought it was a great view of a really healthy family with healthy relationship habits as demonstrated by the excerpts from Greta’s diary. so thanks for sharing Eve!

The only thing I would say is those headaches are an indicator of the toxicity of the sugar and it’s a shame (in my opinion) that after going to all that effort to get it out of your diet that after the experiment was over that you let it creep back in. Refined Sugar strips your body of nutrients. You’d still be fun without sugar Eve you just need to reframe your beliefs around it a little (this was elucidated by the conflicts you had after the end of the project).

I love how down to earth you are and your humour and writing style - what a gift! I look forward to reading your book about a year to get to zero waste.. Thanks 🙏

What a journey!

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Would still have been having blood sugar spikes from all the carbs they were eating. When your on the blood sugar roller coaster food cravings will drive you crazy. Would like to hear more of what was happening to the body and how they were feeling emotionally and physically if anything.

Interesting story but not a proper experiment

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How does this lady think that this in any way constituted a year of no sugar? The whole book is largely her trying to figure out how she can make things sweet without adding sugar and her saviour appears to be dextrose. Man does she love the dextrose. FYI dextrose is very much sugar 😂 Also, the monthly sweet treat, the kids police yourselves when you’re out rule, and the no doubt many occasions by the sounds of it that they didn’t stick to her self imposed “rules”. This book really should have been titled “a year on reduced sugar whilst trying some alternative sweeteners”.

Ridiculous

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