Good Sugar, Bad Sugar

How to Power Your Body and Brain with Healthy Energy

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Pub Date 07 Jan 2020 | Archive Date 25 Nov 2019
Inner Traditions, Healing Arts Press

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Description

A guide to replacing bad sugars in your diet with good sugars for physical, emotional, and mental healing and more energy

• Explains how to easily replace bad sugars, including white sugar and artificial sweeteners, with good sugars, such as those in fruit, honey, and whole grains

• Explores the difference between fast sugars and slow sugars and the regulating role of proteins to slow down the body’s use of sugar

• Reveals the harmful effects of bad sugars, including hypoglycemia, diabetes, obesity, cavities, thickened blood, acid-alkaline imbalances, hyperactivity of glands, mood swings, phobias, depression, and delusional states

One of the most valuable nutritive substances we can consume, sugar supplies the essential energy the body and brain need to function. But there are good and bad, healthful and harmful forms of sugar. Good sugars are those found naturally occurring in foods such as fruits, honey, maple syrup, and whole grains. These unrefined sugars not only provide energy but also trace elements, minerals, and vitamins--nutrients crucial to helping the body process sugar. Bad sugars are those that are man-made or refined, such as white sugar, white flour, and artificial sweeteners. Pervasive in the modern diet, bad sugars are difficult for the body to metabolize and lead to a host of health issues, including tooth decay, type 2 diabetes, brain fog, mood swings, and weight gain.

In this practical guide, Christopher Vasey, N.D., explains how to successfully replace bad sugars with good sugars as well as how to reduce sugar cravings and break your sugar addiction. He reveals how refined sugars not only cause well-known, sugar-related health issues such as obesity but also lead to acid-alkaline imbalances, hyperactivity of glands and organs, chronic fatigue, nutrient deficiencies, thickened blood, and mental disorders such as fits of rage, phobias, depression, and confused states akin to dementia--conditions uncommon before white sugar was introduced into the world’s food supply more than 200 years ago. Vasey describes how sugar, in the form of glucose, works in the body and explores the difference between “fast” sugars and “slow” sugars, emphasizing the importance of slow sugars for ensuring a constant energy level all day long. He looks at the glycemic index with regard to good and bad, fast and slow sugars and the regulating role of proteins to slow down the body’s use of sugar. He explains how dehydration and imbalance in the body’s pH level can trigger bad-sugar dependency and provides steps to correct both issues.

Offering a path out of sugar addiction and easy steps to power your brain and body with healthy energy, Vasey gives you with the tools to take ownership of your own health.

A guide to replacing bad sugars in your diet with good sugars for physical, emotional, and mental healing and more energy

• Explains how to easily replace bad sugars, including white sugar and...


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ISBN 9781620558089
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PAGES 176

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Featured Reviews

Although we've read in other places that ALL sugar is sugar, and there's truth in that, not all sugars are created equally. This book is about that. For those of us who don't want to go completely paleo and sugar-free, this will help guide you through making better choices in both your simple and complex sugars. Clearly laid out and easy to understand.

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This is a good reference book on the huge topic of sugar. It certainly gives you good advice on the do and don'ts and helps you make better food choices. Definitely worth a read if your in need of more information and some guidance when it comes to sugar.

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I loved this book, it is very informative and it really makes you think about what you are putting into your body. I liked how it tells you the difference between the bad sugars and good sugars and what options you should take to become more healthier. I would highly recommend this book.

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Good Sugar, Bad sugar.

We all need to know digest, understand and apply this information, to be able to make the best choices for ourselves and our loved ones.

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Like a good decluttering book that makes you want to throw away everything in your house in the first 20% of the book, this book makes you want to eat better right away. It goes through sugar, good and bad, and why. That might sound boring, but this book is written in such a way that you feel as if you are having an important, one on one discussion. One you are included in, but not one impressed upon you. Even if you eat really well this book is an amazing tool that will help you in years to come!

I received an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review.

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Good Sugar, Bad Sugar: How to Power Your Body and Brain with Healthy Energy by Christopher Vasey, is a very interesting book that I found very helpful. This book is an easy to understand about both good and bad sugars and how it effects our body, moods, and illnesses. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand sugars more.

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