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Article: Diet touted in Sugar Busters! bestseller busted by EN.
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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Q. Can the diet in the book Sugar Busters! help me lose weight?
A. Sure, initially. But as with any fad diet, the results are not likely to last. A bestseller around the country and the talk of New Orleans where restaurants are serving up Sugar Busters/specials, this book offers nothing more than carbohydrate-bashing in disguise. Similar diets recur every few years. In the '70's, the Atkins Diet popularized the low-carb, high-protein approach; most recently, The Zone made news.
The book's premise is based on a few facts twisted to fit the Sugar Busters! theory: Eating sugar stimulates insulin, a hormone that promotes fat storage, while eating protein ...