Win The Fight Against Fat - The Sugar Busters!® Way

When Sugar Busters! hit the shelves almost five years ago, it quickly became a diet and lifestyle phenomenon. The millions of people across the country on the Sugar Busters! plan discovered that by simply choosing the correct carbohydrates and lowering their sugar intake, they could shed the pounds they failed to lose with other diets. Now the weight-loss program that swept the nation has been completely revised and updated - incorporating all the newest nutritional findings, health statistics, and scientific studies, and featuring all-new, easy-to-follow recipes and meal plans.

Among the wealth of new material in this edition, you'll find amazing testimonials from men and women who are losing weight and feeling fit the Sugar Busters! way; frequently asked questions and helpful answers; the latest on diabetes - and how Sugar Busters! can help prevent it; essential facts on women, weight loss, and nutrition; and new tips, updated charts, and practical exercise suggestions.

So arm yourself with the facts and get the figure you've always wanted. When it comes to optimal wellness on the Sugar Busters! program, it's survival of the fittest - a way of life in which everybody wins!

Preface

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, in-cluding "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 rea-sonable 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 humankind - and humankind certainly is in need of some help in the area of eating habits.

Copyright © 2002 by H. Leighton Steward.

Tags: Low Sugar Diet, Diets and Weight Loss

About the Author

H. Leighton Steward has a master of science degree from Southern Methodist University and is CEO of a Fortune 500 energy company. He also authored a booklet on causes of land loss of the lower Mississippi River wetland system. Sixty thousand of these booklets are in circulation worldwide and are referred to by many educational and governmental institutions. He is on the board of Tulane University as well as on several corporate boards. His own success and the success of others on this way of eating motivated him to write Sugar Busters! and Sugar Busters! for Kids.