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Sourcebooks (2014), 320 pages
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Biography & Autobiography. Cooking & Food. Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. HTML: For fans of the New York Times bestseller I Quit Sugar or Katie Couric's controversial food industry documentary Fed Up, A Year of No Sugar is a "delightfully readable account of how [one family] survived a yearlong sugar-free diet and lived to tell the tale...A funny, intelligent, and informative memoir." â??Kirkus It's dinnertime. Do you know where your sugar is coming from? Most likely everywhere. Sure, it's in ice cream and cookies, but what scared Eve O. Schaub was the secret world of sugarâ??hidden in bacon, crackers, salad dressing, pasta sauce, chicken broth, and baby food. With her eyes opened by the work of obesity expert Dr. Robert Lustig and others, Eve challenged her husband and two school-age daughters to join her on a quest to quit sugar for an entire year. Along the way, Eve uncovered the real costs of our sugar-heavy American dietâ??including diabetes, obesity, and increased incidences of health problems such as heart disease and cancer. The stories, tips, and recipes she shares throw fresh light on questionable nutritional advice we've been following for years and show that it is possible to eat at restaurants and go grocery shoppingâ??with less and even no added sugar. Year of No Sugar is what the conversation about "kicking the sugar addiction" looks like for a real American familyâ??a roller coaster of unexpected discoveries and challenges. "As an outspoken advocate for healthy eating, I found Schaub's book to shine a much-needed spotlight on an aspect of American culture that is making us sick, fat, and unhappy, and it does so with wit and warmth."â??Suvir Sara, author of Indian Home Cooking "Delicious and compelling, her book is just about the best sugar substitute I've ever encountered."â??Pulitzer Prize-winning a… (more)
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LibraryThing member thehistorychic
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Overall Rating: 2.00
Helpful Rating: 2.00
Readable Rating: 2.00
Quick Thoughts: Year of No Sugar by Eve O. Schaub was just a total miss for me. I could not even fathom the extreme take on no sugar cold turkey for a whole family. Kudos to her for doing it and her family agreeing
Overall Rating: 2.00
Helpful Rating: 2.00
Readable Rating: 2.00
Quick Thoughts: Year of No Sugar by Eve O. Schaub was just a total miss for me. I could not even fathom the extreme take on no sugar cold turkey for a whole family. Kudos to her for doing it and her family agreeing
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it. However, I just can't imagine there wasn't more pushback from her family. Also there could have been a little bit more detail on how she went about it. I think this will work more for people who really are into giving up sugar. For those on the fence, I don't think it will convince you. Show Less
LibraryThing member LivelyLady
The author chronicles her family quest of having virtually no sugar for a year. Since her daughters were 6 and 11, this was quite a feat. I learned about lots of hidden sugar ingredients as well as how the sugars are the real reason for heart disease, not fat. A good read. I don't think I could do
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LibraryThing member REINADECOPIAYPEGA
I started out loving this book and the author's humor. As the book progressed, and thankfully I am nearly done with it, my feelings towards it changed. I understand we are all human and absolutes are very hard to keep up.
That said this book should definitely not be called Year of No Sugar as it is
They had sugar at birthday parties, on vacation, a once a month dessert with sugar and the kids were allowed sugar when they were out of the house.
So where is the year without sugar ??? Perhaps massive reduction of sugar, but definitely not a sugar free year
I also have a bone to pick with her shunning stevia yet buying huge tubs of dextrose and glucose syrup.
The final straw for me with this awful book was her absolute glee in going to watch chickens being killed and actually killing one herself. With the goat situation, when she went she was the only one not to eat it as she pitied it, in retrospect she decided if she had the chance now she would be the first in line and even drink some of the blood with milk.
I lost all respect for her, and when I started the book I gave it 5 stars, with every passing chapter it got lower and lower and after this chicken killing joyful day for her, I changed it to one.
Total turn off.
That said this book should definitely not be called Year of No Sugar as it is
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very very misleading. That family had sugar and enough of it to make the title a farce.They had sugar at birthday parties, on vacation, a once a month dessert with sugar and the kids were allowed sugar when they were out of the house.
So where is the year without sugar ??? Perhaps massive reduction of sugar, but definitely not a sugar free year
I also have a bone to pick with her shunning stevia yet buying huge tubs of dextrose and glucose syrup.
The final straw for me with this awful book was her absolute glee in going to watch chickens being killed and actually killing one herself. With the goat situation, when she went she was the only one not to eat it as she pitied it, in retrospect she decided if she had the chance now she would be the first in line and even drink some of the blood with milk.
I lost all respect for her, and when I started the book I gave it 5 stars, with every passing chapter it got lower and lower and after this chicken killing joyful day for her, I changed it to one.
Total turn off.
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LibraryThing member VhartPowers
A year of no sugar? Sounds simple enough right? But no, it was not just the white pure cane sugar one may think of as sugar, but all sweeteners. The plan wasn't well thought out or researched ahead of time and though I applaud her and her family's endeavor it may have been healthier to start with
After discussing this experiment with my family we determined we would have rebelled. We would choose the apple over the milk every time.
The author was counting the amount of fructose and based on some crazy percentage she worked out was how a food item made it on the list; ignoring some of the other more dangerous man made scientific worded ingredients. That meant honey was not allowed.
Having eggs and chips at breakfast is not what I would consider a "healthy" breakfast, but it was allowed on their vacation breakfast plan.
So my question is at what health expense did she put her family? Was it worth it in the end? Again, for my family, I would rather they eat the fruit higher in fructose family than dextrose, etc.
The author encouraged her older daughter to keep a journal of this experiment and at Christmas time had a bit of a meltdown. Unfortunately she displaces her anger onto a man who wrote a book about sugar and he lost a great deal of weight avoiding sugar. I do not know if he went to the crazy extremes of Mrs. Schaub, but it wasn't the man who was controlling this girl's life it was her mother.
She did tackle a subject no one really enjoys discussing and that is the amount of poo and how much her body was discharging. Was it the lack of sugar? Was it something they had added to their diet to compensate for the lack of sugar? Was it that they were eating more fruits? There's no answer and the topic ends there, but not the chapter. She switches topic to headaches and not feeling well after they're allowed their one month dessert. So your mind may think it wants the sweet, but the tongue and body is screaming no. Which is what she experienced. She then includes a chart of her children's school absences and the year they did the no sugar they missed the least amount of school.
The oldest daughter wrote in her journal how the kids were able to eat what they wanted outside the home, so at school if hot chocolate was offered to the class she could eat it. She did but then would feel guilty. The mom, to her credit, would explain the daughter didn't need to feel guilt, but having read about food disorders the red flags and alarms were waving and sounding as I read this.
She's scared of eating sugar again.
The mom made up the rules of the experiment as they went along. Even the mom was unsure of how the family would eat after the experiment was over. They could buy Hellman's mayo again and eat the restaurant bread that had one tablespoon of sugar.
I like the honesty of the author and sharing the experience of this adventure. I didn't agree with all of her choices, but I may have been further along the knowledge game of food and what I consider healthy may be different from what she considers healthy.
In the end I did like that she and her family will continue to make more meals homemade instead of the convenience of fast food, chain restaurants, but disagree with her continued use of dextrose and worse, consume diet soda. (shudders)
Bottom line, not all sugars are created equally and balance in every area of our lives is important.
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one "bad" thing at a time. Honestly, agave is not something I would feed my family, but in their list of items it was okay. Same with milk over an apple. After discussing this experiment with my family we determined we would have rebelled. We would choose the apple over the milk every time.
The author was counting the amount of fructose and based on some crazy percentage she worked out was how a food item made it on the list; ignoring some of the other more dangerous man made scientific worded ingredients. That meant honey was not allowed.
Having eggs and chips at breakfast is not what I would consider a "healthy" breakfast, but it was allowed on their vacation breakfast plan.
So my question is at what health expense did she put her family? Was it worth it in the end? Again, for my family, I would rather they eat the fruit higher in fructose family than dextrose, etc.
The author encouraged her older daughter to keep a journal of this experiment and at Christmas time had a bit of a meltdown. Unfortunately she displaces her anger onto a man who wrote a book about sugar and he lost a great deal of weight avoiding sugar. I do not know if he went to the crazy extremes of Mrs. Schaub, but it wasn't the man who was controlling this girl's life it was her mother.
She did tackle a subject no one really enjoys discussing and that is the amount of poo and how much her body was discharging. Was it the lack of sugar? Was it something they had added to their diet to compensate for the lack of sugar? Was it that they were eating more fruits? There's no answer and the topic ends there, but not the chapter. She switches topic to headaches and not feeling well after they're allowed their one month dessert. So your mind may think it wants the sweet, but the tongue and body is screaming no. Which is what she experienced. She then includes a chart of her children's school absences and the year they did the no sugar they missed the least amount of school.
The oldest daughter wrote in her journal how the kids were able to eat what they wanted outside the home, so at school if hot chocolate was offered to the class she could eat it. She did but then would feel guilty. The mom, to her credit, would explain the daughter didn't need to feel guilt, but having read about food disorders the red flags and alarms were waving and sounding as I read this.
She's scared of eating sugar again.
The mom made up the rules of the experiment as they went along. Even the mom was unsure of how the family would eat after the experiment was over. They could buy Hellman's mayo again and eat the restaurant bread that had one tablespoon of sugar.
I like the honesty of the author and sharing the experience of this adventure. I didn't agree with all of her choices, but I may have been further along the knowledge game of food and what I consider healthy may be different from what she considers healthy.
In the end I did like that she and her family will continue to make more meals homemade instead of the convenience of fast food, chain restaurants, but disagree with her continued use of dextrose and worse, consume diet soda. (shudders)
Bottom line, not all sugars are created equally and balance in every area of our lives is important.
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LibraryThing member wrightja2000
I think I enjoyed this book so much because it reminded me of my experience of eliminating food products with added fructose from my diet when I developed severe fructose malabsorption (and a corn allergy) during a pregnancy. I remember being shocked at realizing everything that had added sugar- I
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couldn't eat most bread, ketchup, my salads were plain without dressing until I figured out that I could ask for plain vinegar and oil at restaurants. Unfortunately for me, I didn't get to go back to eating all that stuff after a year since my body reacts cumulatively- I can have a tiny bit but once I hit some certain threshold, my body gets violently ill and every bit of food in my body is forcefully ejected in a painful way. So I'd rather spend my fructose allotment eating an apple or onions than a candy bar. One thing this book did was make me glad that some of the choice has been taken away from me. Being stuck in a bathroom for four or five hours because i ate some candy really makes it easy to decide i don't want to eat candy. And now i feel like I'm not really missing out- my body just recognizes a poison better than other people. Show Less
LibraryThing member reader1009
no added fructose/no processed foods memoir (whole fruits and powdered dextrose are deemed "ok"). This isn't science-heavy (for that you should seek out a different book), but it is one family's story of breaking their sugar habit and the things that worked for them (or didn't work, as the case may
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be). No one likes to hear that sugar may be much more harmful than commonly supposed, but it isn't a bad idea to be aware of just how pervasive it's become. Show Less
LibraryThing member jilldugaw
It was a blog’s worth of information, stretched out to make a book. And, as many others have said, it was not a year without sugar. Not to say that their experiment wasn’t difficult, I’m sure it was. And the increased awareness of the overwhelming amount of sugars (and other nasties) that are
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hidden in our food supply is an absolute bonus. An okay read, but, ultimately, a little disappointing. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2014
Physical description
320 p.; 5.75 inches
ISBN
9781402295874
UPC
760789245855