Sugar Blunders!
Written: Oct 02 '00
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Pros: teaches about foods high in sugar
Cons: doesn't limit fat, eliminates entire food groups
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| doc4now's Full Review: Sugar Busters! |
Here's yet another "miracle diet" that pretends to be based in scientific fact. The underlying theme of "Sugar Busters" is avoiding foods with a high "glycemic index", i.e., foods that are rapidly converted to simple sugars during digestion and metabolism. It's an attractive theory, but doesn't have any proven backing.
As I've said in reviews of other diets, any diet plan that recommends COMPLETELY AVOIDING any food or food group should be viewed with suspicion. Vegetables such as corn and carrots, fruit, and pasta are "bad"? Not in any nutrition course that I've ever taken! In fact, one of the healthiest diets, the "Mediterranean diet" (that has scientific evidence to support it being a healthful diet and one that helps to prevent heart disease), contains plenty of these so-called "forbidden" foods! Do we really think all of those Italians are wrong?
Yes, avoiding too much pasta is good advice. And eating only starchy vegetables instead of a wide variety of green, red, and yellow ones is certainly not ideal. But "Sugar Busters" goes too far and eliminates many healthy, vitamin-rich foods entirely.
What concerns me even more about "Sugar Busters" is the lack of attention or limit to fat intake. This diet may cause an increase in LDL (bad cholesterol) levels, which might actually be dangerous for people with heart disease.
For those of us who crave carbohydrates, it's definitely a good idea to cut down on sweets and eat vegetables with more fiber and less sugar. This book can be helpful in identifying the foods that we might want to limit (not eliminate) in our daily diets.
So don't give up all the potatoes and pastas and wonderful comfort foods that we all grew up with. And don't give up the idea of limiting fat intake... fat is one of the few things that we KNOW is bad in unlimited quantities.
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