Year of no sugar

a memoir

303 pages

English language

Published June 4, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-4022-9587-4
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OCLC Number:
870425549

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4 stars (1 review)

Schaub challenged her family to join her on a quest to eat no added sugar for an entire year. Along the way, she uncovered the real costs of our sugar-heavy American diet-- including diabetes, obesity, and other health problems. Here is what "kicking the sugar addiction" looks like for a real American family.

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We eat way too much sugar and kill ourselves with it

4 stars

Eve Schaub sees a video that tells her added sugar is toxic for us and should be treated as an attempt to poison us. She starts a year with no sugar for her entire family.

Our situation in Germany, Europe is way different than for Schaub in the US:

  • we don't have added sugar in any product (but in way too many, still)
  • I for one cook most of my meals myself, at home and at work

So the situation is not as bad here as compared to the US, where soon about 40% of the population are obese, have diabetes and other life-threatening sicknesses caused by eating too much added sugar.

What I still learn and want to do about this for me and my family:

  • stop drinking Cola and similar stuff and fruit juices (which I started to avoid already)
  • avoid added sugar in industrially manufactured sweets in …

Subjects

  • Food
  • Popular works
  • Sugar-free diet
  • Sugar
  • Physiological effect
  • Case studies
  • Nutritionally induced diseases
  • Sugar content
  • Dieters
  • Biography

Places

  • United States