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Potatoes Not Prozac, A Natural Seven-Step Dietary Plan to Stabilize the Level of Sugar in Your Blood, Control Your Cravings and Lose Weight, and Recognize How Foods Affect the Way You Feel

Kathleen DesMaisons

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Total reviews: 127 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Odd 4 out of 5 stars.
6 of 11 people found this review helpful.

There are some things that trouble me about this book, like push snacking to mealtime. Hum... and her idea of snacks is what sparks the whole sugar sensitivity process. I like Suzann Somers' book is better; she explains the carbs. This book just tells you to keep track of what you eat, when you eat and how you feel after eating whatever it is you eat. I think you should watch what you eat and you should know what you're eating. This book makes very few explanations about what each food is and how it helps your mind, except by saying eat protein and don't eat refined sugar.

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The same brain chemicals that are altered by antidepressant drugs are also affected by the foods we eat. According to addiction expert DesMaisons, many people, including those who are depressed, are "sugar sensitive." Eating sweets gives them a temporary emotional boost, which leads to a craving for still more sweets. The best way to keep these brain chemicals in the right balance and keep blood-sugar levels steady, she says, is through the dietary plan she describes in Potatoes Not Prozac. Her rules are fairly simple--eat three meals a day, eat proteins with every meal (especially those high in the amino acid tryptophan, which creates the calming neurotransmitter serotonin), and eat more complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains and, yes, potatoes. Not only will this make you less depressed, DesMaisons says, but it will also keep you from craving too much of the foods you shouldn't eat, making it a self-regulating system.

Grain-free Gourmet Delicious Recipes for Healthy Living (Grain-free Gourmet)

Jodi Bager, Jenny Lass

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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The ideal cookbook for healthy grain-free eating.

In Grain-Free Gourmet, Jenny Lass and Jodi Bager transform recipes for traditional favorites such as lasagna, pizza, cakes, pies, cookies and other classics into grain-free versions that taste exactly like, and are often better than, the originals.

Included are mouthwatering recipes for:

• Parmesan Cheese-stuffed Mushroom Caps
• Seafood Dumpling Soup
• Apple Pancakes
• Megaberry Muffins
• Gourmet Pizza
• Almond Butter Bread
• Coffee Biscotti

The recipes are free of grains, starches, refined sugars, and lactose, yet are packed full of flavor. This book offers delicious alternatives for carb- and health-conscious dieters as well as for individuals with high cholesterol, lactose and gluten intolerances, or digestive and intestinal disorders.

Each recipe was vetted by a registered dietitian and includes accurate nutritional information. The dishes are tasty and easy to make -- guaranteed to improve health, appeal to taste buds and amaze dinner guests.

Fantastic Food with Splenda: 160 Great Recipes for Meals Low in Sugar, Carbohydrates, Fat, and Calories

Marlene Koch

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A Perfect Fit 5 out of 5 stars.
18 of 20 people found this review helpful.

I have been on a moderate carb diet for a few years and was experimenting with recipes that would fit with my exchange diet and carb counting. Splenda had been on the market for only a year and few people knew how to cook with it and gain good results. Enter Marlene Koch into my life. Her recipes from this book were just what the doctor ordered. There is just enough sugar to make the textures in the food work, but the carb count and fat content was "a perfect fit" for my diet needs. Not only that, but every recipe I tried tasted fantastic and this book has allowed me to return classic recipes such as three bean salad, coleslaw, gingerbread and "sugar" cookies back into my diet without guilt or ill effects. I've made many of the recipes in this book and make her "Heavenly Cheesecake" for my holiday table each year.

Thank you Marlene for all your hard work. I'm looking forward to reading and cooking from more of your books!

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The first of its kind cookbook expands the uses of Splenda, proving that it is versatile enough to be used in many different recipes for all types of meals.

Little Sugar Addicts: End the Mood Swings, Meltdowns, Tantrums, and Low Self-Esteem in Your Child Today

Kathleen Desmaisons

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Sugar Is Not Love

Do you have a smart, creative, loving child who is also cranky, inattentive, and sometimes downright obnoxious? If you’ve written off this negative behavior as “typical” for your child’s age—whether toddler or teen—stop and think: Does your child have a taste for soda, sugary breakfast cereals, and treats like candy and cookies? Does she eat regularly scheduled meals or skip them? What, exactly, does he drink and snack on throughout the day?

Your child’s behavior may be linked to diet—specifically to the sugar in obvious sources like sweets and soda and to hidden sugars that lurk in many foods, fruit-based drinks, and “healthy” snacks like granola bars. And if your son or daughter is sugar sensitive, misbehavior and moodiness can be aggravated by missed or late meals and junk foods.

Now, bestselling author Kathleen DesMaisons offers you a workable solution for getting back your child by changing his diet—without creating a sense of deprivation, without setting unrealistic goals, and without turning sugar into “forbidden fruit.” This book offers:

• A step-by-step program, backed by years of research, for gradually improving the food your child eats—you and your whole family will benefit!
• Tips for navigating the sugar-laden world of birthday parties, holidays, and school cafeterias
• Ways to incorporate healthy snacking and regular mealtimes into your child’s day, including suggestions for meals and snacks, plus recipes

Little Sugar Addicts isn’t about strange foods, dramatic lifestyle changes, or complicated menus—just support, guidance, and real-life suggestions from other parents that work. It will help you make the connection between the addictive qualities of sugar and negative behavior and offer a healthy solution you and your whole family can live with.

The "I Can't Believe This Has No Sugar" Cookbook

Deborah E. Buhr

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Disappointing if you want it for the COOKIE recipes 2 out of 5 stars.
31 of 31 people found this review helpful.

After reading the positive reviews, I bought this book. The introduction said "a few" recipes contain date sugar. When I went to the section on cookies, I found that all but three of the cookies recipes contain date sugar...usually 1 to 1.5 cups!
There are many other books that focus on fruit-sweetened baking...if cookies are your interest, I'd recommend looking at others first.

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It's hard to believe that these tempting and delicious baked favorites contain no sugar, honey, or artificial sweetners:

Chocolate-Coconut Cake
Spelt Whole-Grain Yeast Bread
Peach Pie
Sugar-free, Dairy-free Fudge
Blueberry Crisp
Summer Afternoon Malt
Whole-Wheat Raisin Cookies
Graham-Cracker Cookie Cutouts
Apple-Nut Cinnamon Rolls
Raspberry Popsicles

The secret is fruit, pure and naural, along with fruit juice concentrates, date sugar, and other healthful alternatives to sugar. All recipes are dairy-free and most are cholesterol-free and can be adapted for common food allergies. Deborah Buhr's family-tested recipes are irresistibly good--perfect for children, diabetics, calorie counters, the food allergic, and anyone with a "healthy" sweet tooth.

Suzanne Somers' Get Skinny on Fabulous Food

Suzanne Somers

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Total reviews: 267 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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"I got skinny on fat," claims Suzanne Somers. It sounds too good to be true--a weight-loss program that lets you "eat incredible, rich foods in abundant portions while the unwanted pounds effortlessly melt away." Most nutritionists would cringe at the idea that people trying to lose weight don't need to restrict their dietary fat, but Suzanne Somers and her "Somercizers" insist it works. Fat (even saturated fat) isn't the enemy, she claims--it's "products loaded with sugar, white flour, hydrogenated oils, and chemicals and preservatives that replace real fats." Get Skinny on Fabulous Food follows Somers's Eat Great, Lose Weight with a recap of the Somersize program, which involves eliminating "funky foods" like sugar and starch and using a type of food combining. Also included are grateful letters from followers of the program, menu suggestions, and 150 new recipes. Recipes include such fat-filled dishes as Leslie's Mushroom Broccoli and Egg Cupcakes (with butter, oil, Swiss cheese, and nine large eggs), Beef Stroganoff (with butter, oil, and two cups of heavy cream), Ginger Creme Brûlée (with butter, heavy cream, nine large egg yolks, and even the enemy: sugar), Cappuccino Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake (with cream cheese, eggs, chocolate, sour cream, and--yup--sugar). No calorie counts or nutritional breakdowns are included. --Joan Price

Eat Fat, Look Thin: A Safe and Natural Way to Lose Weight Permanently, Second Edition

Bruce Fife

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Eat delicious, full-flavoured foods and lose weight permanently with this new, all natural, no-hunger, weight-loss program. You can enjoy rich, full-fat foods and lose weight without the hassle of counting calories, weighing portions, or suffering from hunger. This book exposes many common myths and misconceptions about fats. It reveals new, cutting-edge research on the world's only natural, low-calorie fat - a fat that not only has fewer calories than any other fat, but one which also stimulates metabolism and burns up calories. Yes, you can lose weight by eating fat, if you use the right kind. Combined with a sensible eating plan, you can shed excess weight, enjoy the foods you love, and gain better health. This revolutionary, total-wellness program is designed to keep you both slim and healthy using wholesome, natural foods, and the most health-promoting fats. It has proven successful in helping those suffering from obesity, diabetes, hypoglycaemia, heart and circulatory problems, yeast infections, chronic fatigue, and many other conditions.

Sensational Stevia Desserts

Lisa Jobs

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

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Sensational Stevia Desserts is overflowing with the widest selection of fantastic, low-carb desserts to help you take sugar and artificial sweeteners out of dessert preparation forever. You’ll enjoy 82 luscious, low-carb desserts using stevia, an all-natural alternative to sugar and artificial sweeteners! Stevia makes desserts delicious and lower in calories, without sacrificing flavor!

It’s the only stevia cookbook with exclusively dessert recipes; a beautiful, full-color, eight-page, photo insert; comprehensive nutrition information; detailed measurements for multiple stevia brands; and eye-opening nutritional comparisons to traditional sugar recipes and store-bought counterparts of recipes.

Lead a healthier lifestyle by reducing your sugar and artificial sweetener intake with these stevia desserts. Also, if you’re diabetic, dieting, hypoglycemic or suffer from candida, stevia may be of interest to you since it doesn’t affect glucose levels, has no fat, no calories, no carbohydrates and no sugar or artificial sweeteners!

Somersize Desserts

Suzanne Somers

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Now you can have your cake and eat it, too!

Suzanne Somers, whose revolutionary Somersizing program and bestselling books have helped millions of people lose weight, shares thirty delicious recipes for decadent, flavorful desserts that not only taste great but won’t make you gain an ounce. Sound too good to be true? Not if you Somersize! This remarkable program allows you to lose weight while eating delicious foods, including sinfully rich desserts such as:

* Crème Brûlée
* New York–Style Cheesecake with Raspberry Coulis
* Lemon Zabaglione
* Chocolate Layer Cake
* Wild Mountain Blueberry Pie
* Caramel Swirl Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream

You can lose weight while eating these tasty desserts because the key to weight loss is reducing sugar in your diet, not fat. Fat is not the enemy. In fact, fat is your friend. It’s the sugar that makes people put on the pounds. The fabulous, tempting desserts in this book are made with SomerSweet, a miracle product that won’t spike your insulin levels. This is a breakthrough for diabetics! And it’s perfect for Somersizers or anyone who just wants to eat a tantalizing, guilt-free dessert.

Never before has weight loss been so easy and enjoyable. Illustrated with mouthwatering photos, Somersize Desserts is the perfect companion to Suzanne Somers’ revolutionary series of weight-loss books. Don’t deprive yourself of those sweets; go ahead—they’re perfectly Somersized!

Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet

Ann Louise Phd Cns Gittleman

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"Avoiding sugar is the easiest, safest, and most permanent way to stay slim" is the bold promise nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman makes in her book Get the Sugar Out. Gittleman, who also authored Beyond Pritikin, gives the hard facts about why refined sugar contributes to weight gain, mood swings, weak immunity, diabetes, and more. Low-fat diets, the book claims, frequently let people down, because manufactured fat-free foods often contain more sugar than their full-fat counterparts!

Don't be fooled, though: ridding your diet of sugar will not be an easy task. The 501 tips provided in the book may seem rather daunting at times. Luckily, Gittleman doesn't expect you to incorporate all of them into your life. She notes, "Even if you incorporate only one-tenth of the tips in this book, you're sure to reduce the sugar in your diet and change your life in a positive and noticeable way." So even if you find it's too difficult to give up your diet sodas, you can still improve your health by learning all the names sugar hides under (including tongue twisters such as xylitol, sorghum syrup, mannitol, and maltodextrin) and avoiding products that contain them. Some of Gittleman's suggestions, though, are not only simple, but fun. For example, you can substitute frozen grapes, raspberries, and blueberries for hard candy. This easy-to-read book even has 50 delicious recipes (how about Peanut Butter Muffins or "Gone Nutty" Frozen Bananas?) and a week's menu to get you started. So if you're ready to get going on "a satisfying, high-energy, low-sugar regimen," this just may be the book for you. --Jenny Brown