H. Leighton Steward - The New Sugar Busters!: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat

Readers may well ask why we have written a revised Sugar Busters! Do the recommendations for following the Sugar Busters! lifestyle need changing? Has the Sugar Busters! lifestyle turned out to be just another fad diet, as some critics asserted? Absolutely not! The lifestyle has proven to be solid, simple, successful, and most of all, healthful.

This success has created the need to add many new chapters to expand on the benefits of this way of eating and living. Eighteen key new chapters include Prevention (addressing weight and health problems), The Epidemic of Childhood Obesity (and what to do about it), Exercise (to further emphasize this important aspect of healthy living), Super Foods (to help make sure you consume some of the best of the best), Soft Drinks, Hard Facts (to further alert you to this growing problem), and Calculating Fatness and Obesity (to help determine how much you or your child is overweight).

There are also chapters to give you a more in-depth understanding of the Sugar Busters! lifestyle, including The Glycemic Index, Reading Labels, The Plateaus, Stocking and Unstocking the Pantry, Lifetime Meal Plans, Alternative Sweeteners, To Drink or Not to Drink, Fat Versus Low-Fat Diets and Products, and Why Sugar Busters!

We have included recipes from well known restaurants in North America and around the world so when you travel you will know there are Sugar Busters!-friendly restaurants in your path.

You will also find, from the Introduction onward, references to studies performed around the world that provide verification of the benefits of the various aspects of the Sugar Busters! lifestyle.

Because most diets are aimed at weight loss, they have historically recommended reducing calories and/or fat; this practice is unnatural to an affluent society or even the Eskimos of North America. America is in dire need of a way of eating (and drinking) that will allow its people to consume reasonable quantities of food that can improve their daily enjoyment of life. At the same time, this new way of eating should eliminate unwanted quantities of weight and, more importantly, the adverse effects current eating habits have on blood cholesterol, triglycerides, and causing, or negatively affecting, diseases such as diabetes.

Is a diet really needed to enhance everybody's health and performance? A large percentage of our population is faced with the daily decisions and stress levels that were afforded only to some of the country's top leaders just a few decades ago. In our lives today, at home and work and in between, we are faced with constant demands; phone calls, faxes, computer problems and opportunities, high speed, close-quarter traffic situations, and dawn-to-dawn media bombardments of local and worldwide murders, pestilence, catastrophes, and wars. So, we all need to be ready to best handle the mental and physical demands each day presents and a good lifestyle is the best way to prepare for the challenges.

We authors are still excited and highly motivated to get this message out to benefit humankindand humankind certainly is in need of some help in the area of eating habits.

One author, a former Fortune 500 CEO, is in his sixties and slim. He has been eating the way this book recommends for over nine years and is still twenty pounds down from his starting weight and has significantly improved his blood chemistry. All this at an average of over 3,100 calories a day!

Our three doctor authors include a cardiovascular surgeon, an endocrinologist, and a gastroenterologist. These are not ordinary doctors. Our heart surgeon has been voted the number-one cardiovascular surgeon in the greater New Orleans area by his peers, the most respected vote a doctor can receive. The endocrinologist is a member of the Audubon Internal Medicine Group at the largest hospital in New Orleans. Our gastroenterologist is chief of the gastroenterology section at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and is an expert in liver function and metabolism and was invaluable in pointing out the connections between various hormonal secretions and the liver, where cholesterol is manufactured.