Review: Clear Instructions to limit sugar-intake for a healthier lifestyle.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
Why is it that delicious foods like chocolate buns, cream and toffee can transform us into weebles with acne, while deformed atrocities we rip from the muddy ground have the power to improve our brain, our BMI and sort out our bowels? I remember discussing this subject with my teacher (after a barrelfull of school-dinner cabbage and carrots) and announcing that if carrots tasted like candy floss then world leaders would be much happier lunatics, and universal peace would surely follow.The sad truth is that nature has a humorous and paradoxical irony and sees fit to torment us with its produce at every turn. It is because of this that we need to arm ourselves in the war we have with our taste-buds with defences such as books like 'The Sugar Detox Diet Challenge - Ultimate Guide to Busting your Sugar Cravings' by Sampson Sharpe.The details within show how a harmless sweet tooth can develop into a sugar craving and eventual addiction, and why it affects the hormones in the body responsible for distributing nutrients throughout the biological system. It explains how a simple blood test could help you to monitor your diet and its effect on your body, and pinpoint areas in your diet that you need to change; having taken up the Author's challenge of writing a food journal to take an honest look at what I'm eating, I can only say that it is both an enlightening and embarrassing insight into the sad state of my usual eating habits.I was also interested to discover how sugar can be responsible for hormone imbalance, headaches, and even depression, to mention but a few of its side effects.The Author writes in a clear and understandable manner as he describes the differences between 'good sugars' and 'bad sugars' and why this is so. He gives concise instructions to help us create a nutrition filled, healthy and still enjoyable eating habit to maintain at first for a seven day sugar detox, but eventually to maintain 'a healthy limited sugar lifestyle for life'.I know there are a lot of books out there to do with diet but the reason I would give 'The Sugar Detox Diet Challenge' a five star rating is because it outlines the problem; why it is a problem, and how to solve it, in a way that your average Joe such as myself, can understand and relate to without difficulty. Highly recommended peeps!