Sugar crush
Subtitle: how to reduce inflammation, reverse nerve damage, and reclaim good health
By: Dr. Richard P. Jacoby and Raquel Baldelomar
Contributors: Baldelomar, Raquel, author
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780062348203
Subjects: Sugars in human nutrition; Inflammation; Diseases; Health aspects; Prevention; Peripheral Nerves; Sugar
Description: Postulates that "a diet high in sugar, processed carbohydrates, and wheat compresses and damages the peripheral nerves of the body, leading to pain, numbness, and tingling in the hands and feet, along with a host of related conditions, including migraines, gall bladder disease, and diabetes"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: This fine sweet mess. The 500-pound canary : a sugar tsunami ; the nerve of it all : how chronic inflammation crashes your miraculous hard wiring ; Killing you softly : the creep of compression ; Slightly diabetic : the metabolic syndrome and its ugly cousins; title: The train to nowhere. On track for nerve damage : are your nerves already inflamed? ; The five phases of peripheral neuropathy : heed the clarion call ; Meanwhile, just make it stop : what we suffer to ease the pain; title: So now what's stopping you? The sugar addition : #kickingthehabit ; The big fat lie : educated into ignorance ; So then what can you eat? : hot buttered coffee; title: My own awakening.