H. Leighton Steward - The New Sugar Busters!

The authors of Sugar Busters!: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat have developed the Sugar Busters! Shoppers Guide to help you make better selections in your local grocery store, supermarket, and delicatessen, and how to make better selections when eating out. Many of you have voiced to us frustrations concerning which items are best for you. Grocery shopping is difficult. Advertising and labeling are often misleading and, at best, confusing. That is why we are including a section on reading labels. We, the authors of Sugar Busters!, know that our concept is valid, but, if you do not know how to make correct choices regarding what you eat, Sugar Busters! may not work for you. Therefore, we have developed this guide to help you succeed on Sugar Busters!

Sugar Busters! also has introduced its own products in categories where we feel there is the greatest demand. We have done this to ensure the availability of legal (acceptable) products as well as to protect the integrity of our concept. The authors have personally participated in the formulation of the products regarding ingredients and also to ensure that the foods are of excellent taste as measured by anyones standards. Many of the products are available in your local area, but if not, please ask your grocery store manager to contact Boudreaux Foods in New Orleans, Louisiana, at www.sugarbusterfood.com, who will try to make these products available in your local market.

In October 2003, the RAND Corporation reported that the number of people at least 100 pounds overweight had quadrupled since the 1980s. Do not become one of these high-risk people. Sugar Busters! can help you achieve this goal. The Sugar Busters! glycemic index or load approach for choosing the best carbohydrates has now been supported by the World Health Organization as well as many professional nutritionists.

The Sugar Busters! lifestyle is logical, practical, and reasonable. It does not involve weighing, measuring, or counting, but it does involve making better choices about what you eat, and it does involve moderation, especially in portion sizes. If you make healthy and nutritious choices and your servings of these choices are moderate, there is no need to worry about counting calories, which, in most instances, would be inaccurate and not even beneficial to what you are trying to achieve. Sugar Busters! is about lean and trimmed meats, high-fiber vegetables, whole grains, nuts, most fruits, and, if you choose, alcohol responsibly and in moderation.

Sugar Busters! is very careful and concerned about too much fat, especially saturated fat. This can be animal as well as trans-fats, which are hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oils that are frequently added to grocery products or used in commercial fast-food kitchens. On Sugar Busters! you generally will be eating 40 percent (or slightly more) carbohydrates, 30 percent protein, and 30 percent fat, only 10 percent of which should be saturated fat. These parameters are perfectly healthy and conform to those recommended by the American Heart Association. There are only a few common foods that you should avoid, such as white or red potatoes, beets, corn and corn products, white flour products, white rice, carrots, and a few of the higher glycemic fruits, such as ripe bananas and raisins.

You will notice when shopping for Sugar Busters! items that your best choices are around the perimeter of the store rather than in the center, where the processed foods are located. In making your choices, try to select those products that have as little refined sugar as possible, preferably no more than three grams of added refined sugar per serving. Always remember that fresh is best, then frozen, and canned is often the least desirable. Different brands of the same food often vary considerably in the added ingredients. Therefore, reading labels until you are familiar with those items that are best for you will really help in cutting sugar.

Sugar Busters! highly recommends exercise. Unfortunately, over 70 percent of you do not and will not exercise, but you can still improve your weight and health by following the Sugar Busters! nutritional lifestyle.

What will Sugar Busters! do for you? It will help you achieve your ideal body weight (genetically predetermined), reduce your risks of diabetes and hypertension, and slow the aging of your blood vessels, as well as help prevent many other obesity-related health problems. If you are diabetic, Sugar Busters! will make it much easier to control your blood sugars. Those of you who suffer from hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) will also benefit from the Sugar Busters! lifestyle.

How is all of this achieved on Sugar Busters!? By eating in a healthy and nutritious fashion and by making better carbohydrate choices, you can go through the day with lower insulin levels. You cannot live without insulin, but you can live much better without too much insulin. Insulin, in addition to transporting glucose into cells for some of our energy needs, also makes you store sugar and fat as fat, prevents you from burning fat efficiently, and instructs your liver to produce additional amounts of cholesterol. Simply stated, higher than normal levels of insulin make us fat and flabby and our blood vessels age more quickly. This is something that we all would like to avoid, and the Sugar Busters! lifestyle will help you achieve this goal.

Try Sugar Busters! You will like it. You will look and feel your best. It does not involve any costly supplements or additives but only involves making good, nutritious decisions about what you eat. This shoppers guide will help you get on your way. In addition, we have added a section on how to eat out successfully on Sugar Busters!

Enjoy and bon apptit!