Press Room for Sugar Shock! (Berkley Books)

How Sugar Shock! is Different From All Other Books:

This Book Tells The Full Sugar Story And Helps Readers to Break Free

 

1.   Sugar Shock! (Berkley Books, Jan. 2007) is the first book to give a complete, up-to-date picture of how eating many sweets and refined carbohydrates (“quickie carbs”) could adversely affect people’s physical and emotional well being. To date, most books have focused on the weight-related aspect of sugar consumption and the diabetes that could result, but this book reveals that weight gain is only part of the story. Sugar Shock! highlights recent, groundbreaking studies, which reveal that some 74 million to 147 million Americans could be suffering from a constellation of ailments that the author calls Sugar Shock!—symptoms like sugar cravings, mood swings, depression, memory problems, infertility, severe PMS, fatigue, sexual dysfunction, blood sugar disorders, cancer, heart disease, and skin problems—all brought on because of the soda, cookies, candies, and chips they’re over-consuming.

2.   Sugar Shock! is the first exposé about sugars and quickie carbs to include interviews with some 250 medical experts worldwide—researchers, physicians, obesity experts, nutritionists, and health industry insiders from such respected institutions as Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University. Author Connie Bennett draws her conclusions based upon the findings of these medical experts, who all “vetted” their quotes.

3.   Sugar Shock! is the first sugar book in more than 30 years written by an experienced journalist, who draws on her own nightmarish sugar-induced experiences and investigative skills to unmask sugar’s hidden perils. The granddaddy of the genre, William Dufty’s 1975 Sugar Blues, was a bestseller that sold 1.6 million-plus copies—and 32 years later, it still sells!  

4.   Sugar Shock! is the first book to reveal recent, eye-opening, revolutionary research studies documenting that you could become dependent on sweets much as an alcoholic or drug addict gets hooked on their substance of choice. This is mind boggling stuff!

5.   Sugar Shock! is the first book to explore whether or not “Big Sugar” is the next “Big Tobacco,” and it even includes interviews with renowned class-action attorneys.

6.   Sugar Shock! is the first book to examine recent, groundbreaking research showing that eating too many processed carbs and blood sugar imbalances could lead to memory loss, mental confusion, and chaotic thoughts.

7.   Sugar Shock! is the first book to present new research, which suggests that our Western, carb-laden diet could be to blame for pimples, wrinkles, and other unsightly skin problems.

8.   Sugar Shock! explores the little-known theory that overloading on sweets or quickie carbs could sour your moods, triggering overpowering depression, anxiety, irritability, hostility, anger outbursts, irrational behavior, thoughts of despair, aggressiveness, and even crime.

9.   Sugar Shock! sheds light on an oft-ignored fact—it documents that consuming too many quickie carbs could mess up your sex life, leading to sexual dysfunction and loss of libido.

10.  Sugar Shock! wakes women up to the connection between quickie carbs and developing polycystic ovary syndrome, severe PMS, menopausal symptoms, infertility, and Candida.

11.  Sugar Shock! ultimately offers readers easy, tangible, tried-and-true tips and techniques so they can break free of their addiction to sugar or much-like-sugar carbs.

12.  Unlike most sugar or diet books, Sugar Shock! is engaging, engrossing, and easy to read. What’s more, it has heart, warmth, compassion, and even some humor, in large, part, because the author used to be just like her book’s audience and readers relate to her. Ultimately, this book is eye-opening, motivating, and nurturing, and it offers hope for the future.