Book Review: Year of No Sugar

If you are looking for motivation and inspiration to reduce added sugar, this book is for you. You can do it! Schaub is very open about their mess-ups and how they navigated the year. And perhaps most interesting, after the year-long project, the author continues to make most meals from scratch, avoid fructose when possible, and limits the number of desserts the family eats.

Proverbs 27:7, One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.

There were two things I didn't like about this book: its length and the reference of dextrose being OK. It could have been much shorter. I appreciate a succinct description of events. The author is verbose and colloquial. I can't really fault the author for substituting dextrose--this was her journey, her rules, her substitutions. I had to keep reminding myself that she is not a nutritionist and this was not a nutrition book--it is a memoir, as advertised.

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Schaub, E. (2014). Year of no sugar: A memoir. Naperville: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Book Review: I Quit Sugar

This book provides a step-by-step program to help you eliminate sugar. It is full of tips, tricks, and techniques to guide you through the process. The book begins with an introduction to the author’s story and an overview of what the reader can expect. The 8-Week Program chapter gives detailed instructions, week by week. The Getting Equipped chapter covers kitchen supplies and basic recipes you will need to know before getting started. The Recipe section provides 108 sugar-free recipes. The Bits at the Back of the Book section offers a shopping list for the recipes and additional resources.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in quitting sugar and requiring someone to hold his or her hand through the process. 

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Wilson, S. (2013). I Quit Sugar: Your complete 8-week detox program & cookbook. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers.