After years of blaming saturated fats, high-fat diets, and sedentary lifestyles, the medical fraternity has reviewed all the research about obesity and come to a new conclusion. That fats, and energy imbalance may not be out enemy no. 1. In Zero Sugar Diet, David Zinczenko talks about how every food package that we pick from the shelves includes sugar, which he says is the root cause of obesity. A claim that is echoed by Gary Taubes in The Case Against Sugar. Here, Zinczenko and Perrine give a similar argument about how the sugar lobby influenced research findings for years and influenced the discourse around obesity.
David Zinczenko is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zero Belly Diet, Zero Belly Cookbook, and Zero Belly Smoothies and the co-author of the Eat This, Not That! franchise (which has sold more than eight million copies worldwide) and the Abs Diet books. Currently the editorial director of Men’s Fitness, he is the award-winning former editor in chief of Men’s Health and editorial director of Women’s Health, Prevention, and Best Life magazines.
Stephen Perrine is also the author of The Men’s Health Diet and The New American Diet. He has appeared as an expert on health and nutrition on The Dr. Oz Show, Today, Good Morning America, and numerous other television shows.
Zero Sugar Diet: The 14-Day Plan to Flatten Your Belly, Crush Cravings, and Help Keep You Lean for Life
Author: David Zinczenko, Stephen Perrine
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1 edition (December 27, 2016)
ISBN: 0345547985, 978-0345547989
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The authors begin with an account of how the sugar industry managed to pump in millions into research tha exonerated sugar, and victimized fat for our bulging waistlines. And when reducing fat intake didn’t give the desired results they turned on people and blamed the new way of life and lack of physical effort for gaining weight. With that background, you will get to read the about the role of sugar in making of your flabby self.
Insulin is critical to controlling the glucose level in blood. As insulin consumes this glucose in you blood it converts the sugars either in energy or into that cushion on you body. So every time you gulp a sugary drink or chew on a sugar intense food, your pancreas go into an overdrive. The author explain this in an easy-to-understand text and drive home the point about role of insulin.
But it is not just the ice-cream or the candy you buy that is harmful. The authors point out the hidden added sugars in your daily packaged foods that are equally problematic.
With various case-studies and personal accounts, the authors show you how you can choose the right foods and plan you food intake to restrict added sugars to your diet. They tell you about the different ingredient labels, that actually mean sugar, used to mask this dangerous ingredient by manufacturers. You will also learn by Fructose is as, if not more harmful, than sugar and a how different types of sugars damage you in different ways.
With this, the authors give you a Zero Sugar 3-Day Detox at the end of the book to give you a jump-start and show you how sugars affect your body. With this strong head start, you can then go on the Zero Sugar Diet and continue to lose you belly fat. With chapters dedicated to how to eat zero sugar breakfast and zero sugar lunch, the Zero Sugar Diet book is your companion on your journey to lose weight gain because of excess sugar. The book also has an accompanying web site that makes your task of picking zero sugar diet foods off the shelf at your favorite stores.
Starting with a detox, the Zero Sugar Diet plan guides you toward a maintaining a healthy lifestyle, make the right diet choices, and stay lean.