Sugar Crush: A Guide to Reducing Inflammation, Reversing Nerve Damage, and Restoring Optimal Health

Eric: A nice read

Canada on Jan 06, 2023

zoek5z: Its important to know what's going on inside the body when we eat sugar. Very good book that made me want to stop eating sugar over all other books on the subject. Scary reading.

United Kingdom on Jan 03, 2021

Amazon Customer: The author makes a difficult subject very concise, almost bullet pointed and black and white. We all have a choice...well he actually gives 2 choices and obviously ignoring those two choices. I considered myself a healthy eater with a perfect weight. I have now reconsidered that view and will be making some changes to my diet and eating habits..... kicking the unnecessary carbs.
I have read a lot of nutrition books. This is the only one I am recommending as a must (and uncomfortable) read. I would describe it as coming from a scientific and truthful medical perspective..... probably something all medical professionals should HAVE to read as part of their training, to open their eyes and provide full care to their patients no just drugs, surgery, quick fixes and inadequate dietary advice.

United Kingdom on Jan 12, 2020

Silverpen: The best thing about this book is that it totally convinced me that sugar in all of its refined forms is really, really bad for the body. Before reading this, I only knew about some of the most obvious problems with the white stuff (weight gain, feeling crappy, etc.). Formally, I was willing to put up with these symptoms in order to enjoy the taste and texture of sugary foods. Having read this book, I now know that sugar causes nerve damage. This explains a number of symptoms I have lived with for quite some time. Also, I am more aware of how and where food manufacturers hide sugars in their products. I am now planning my meals and snacks around whole foods as close to their natural state as possible. After just a few days, I am already feeling better. I also enjoyed reading Sugar Crush because the author has a very conversational style and a sense of humor.

The reason I am giving only four stars instead of five is because of the author's recommendation to follow the Paleo diet. I believe that a plant-based diet is more beneficial, for humans, animals, and the planet. Why buy expensive grass-fed beef for omega-3 fatty acids when you can get omega-3s directly from eating...

United States on Feb 15, 2018

Bri Con: It was amazing. We read everywhere that we aren't supposed to eat sugar, This book explains why we shouldn't be eating sugar. It explains that so many of the symptoms and problems we are feeling in our body comes from sugar alone. In so many instances I was just enlightened as I began to see just what sugar actually does and the negative effects it has. I have now been 2 months sugar free since reading this book and already I am feeling much better! I would recommend this book too all who not only are struggling with diabetes but anyone wanting to improve their overall health.

Canada on Mar 27, 2017

Lora S.: I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, the link between sugar and type II diabetes the author describes seems to be pretty generally accepted, and the accompanying ill effects are real. Not being a medical researcher, I can’t tell how many of the other conditions he attributes to sugar are real, but he makes enough of a case for them that at least some of them are likely to be true as well. Everything is well-researched, with lots of footnotes to prove it.

So, OK, I’m convinced. I need to cut my sugar consumption further. I already gave up soft drinks almost completely a couple of years ago. But then, what can you eat? Here is where I feel the book is somewhat of a letdown. The author advocates a ketogenic diet – one that is at least 75% fat. But it has to be good fat – from grass-fed organic animals. Also ok are cream and organic butter (from grass-fed animals again). And a few vegetables with low glycemic indexes and/or low glycemic loads. He also subscribes to the no-wheat idea.

There are actually two eating plans, one the strict ketogenic and the other one slightly more normal non-carb diet. There is a chart. My single biggest complaint...

United States on Feb 18, 2017

Amazon Customer: Sugar Crush is an absolute must read!! Dr. Jacoby has impacted my health, my chronic pain and my life in significant, positive ways. After almost 3 years of chronic inflammation in my forearms: bilateral tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis and golfer's elbow, I sought the journey of natural help to heal. Eliminating all forms of sugar and toxic carbohydrates, essentially all of them, has brought me incredible relief!!! The chronic pain, stiffness, edema of my fingers, numbness and tingling are gone!!!! I am on day 50 and will continue with my toxic carbohydrate and sugars free eating for the rest of my days!!

Canada on Jun 02, 2016

Mad Dog: If you are still eating some sugar in your diet after reading books like Robert Lustig's Fat Chance, this book will make you give it up for good. With terrifying detail, Richard Jacoby discusses the mechanics of how too much dietary sugar eventually leads to the crippling nerve damage, infection, gangrene and amputation that are the hallmarks of advanced metabolic disease. In fact, you could have serious damage long before the diabetes diagnosis. It is full of nuggets of new information, such as how such diseases as ALS, gallbladder disease, or even Bell's palsy may be related to this sort of damage caused by sugar.

That said, I have some reservations, none of which are enough to justify knocking off a star. I think he is too cool with dairy products and red meat, despite some evidence that they increase risk of cancer and heart disease. He misses the problems with too much protein, which is that it can increase cancer risk and also convert to glucose. In general, the longest lived and healthiest societies on earth, such as the Japanese and the Europeans that live around the Mediterranean, do eat some carbs in the form of grain products, rice for the former and pasta for...

United States on Apr 19, 2015