As with Sugar Blues, I wholeheartedly agree that sugar is BAD. Many of the tips in this book were common sense, so I didn't find myself gleaning new ways of eliminating sugar. There were a few interesting recipes, though, that I will try.

This book is well over ten years old but still has a lot of good information in it. A fairly quick and easy book to read.

Good information, and good recipes.

Lots of great advice - though I found it tiresome to read a list of 501 tips. The recipes look yummy, and I do plan to try them. Out with sugar for good!

The book is old but was ahead of its time, when fat free was the big cure-all to weight loss. But fat free just added more sugar to make it taste better. Very scary stuff sugar is. In the last 100 years we have 250% more sugar in our diets and bodies.

i was overwhelmed with all the info in this book and sort of skimmed the last half. but it had some great tips.

I use to think I was better than: better than people who:
did drugs, drank alcohol, was addicted to things, shopaholics, sex addicts, adrenaline junkies.

I though I don't want any of those things, I don't crave any of those things, however I did crave something: sugar, chocolate, sweet treats, peanut butter. I know sugar in peanut butter? who knew. They hide sugar in everything. My favorite two foods in the world peanut butter and chocolate.
what to do what to do.

Now I know I'm no better than any addict because I don't know If I've ever gone a day w/o some form of sugar in my body. I don't know if i will ever be completely sugar free but I will try to be be half sugar and half sass. No better than. Just a little despondent. It must be withdrawal.

Important revelation about the massive quantity of sugar and sugar substitutes in the US diet. The body needs a balance of carbohydrates, protein and fat; the body does not need any sugar at all. Yet Americans eat hundreds of pound of sugar each year. More than anything else, this is what is driving the obesity epidemic.

I liked this book overall. The copyright is 1996, so it's not the most up-to-date, but I still think she had most things right on. I was pretty surprised by a few foods I eat that I thought were basically healthy that are packed with sugar. I think she is dead on about sugar being the main issue with the American diet currently and I hope I can slowly work the sugar down in my own, we'll see!

This is less of a book and more of a checklist. "Tips" include not eating sugar in soup, not eating sugar in bread, not eating sugar in condiments, and so on. I gave it two stars instead of one, though, because reading it made me check the label on my tomato-basil soup and made me realize what I thought was a healthy lunch had twenty-six grams of sugar.

Easy to read; easy to use as a quick reference. Much seems like common sense, but sometimes it's good to be reminded. I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, but would like to.

excellent..motivated me to really reduce my sugar and since i have, it has given me nothing but positive side effects.

the author really gives you ways to reduce the sugar by making small changes everyday. I love how the list is exhaustive...like i said, my life is changed forever