The paper provides the book review of “Lick the Sugar Habit”. The book is written by Dr. Nancy Appleton. The aim of the paper is to extricate how the addiction of sugar damages the functioning of the whole body. Further, it embraces the tips to mitigate the sugar consumption as much as possible. Moreover, she exemplifies her own experience of being sugarholic and the reason for her sudden switch from sugar addiction to normal consumption habit. In her book, Nancy portrays the damages of using sugar to one's health. The book extricate how sugar addiction gears up towards diabetes, headaches, obesity, hormonal imbalance, tooth decay and much more. The book elucidates the unbalancing acts of sugar consumption as well as it indicates the allergies related to excess sugar consumption. Further, in her book Nancy enlightens the correlation between the sugar intake and the stress as the psychological well being issue. At the wrapping up stage of the book she provides some good health attaining and maintaining self help tips.
Discussion
The book is precious lifesaver for all those prudent individuals who give priority to their health. Evaluate yourself whether you are sugarholic or not. Dr. Nancy Appleton discusses her own experience of being sugarholic and the damages to her health for being sugar addicted. She discusses her suffering from chronic diseases of bronchitis and pneumonia even with the chest tumor because of having pounds of sugar with the inability of her body to process this excessive amount of sugar. According to her statement got cure with the disease by changing her excessive sugar intake habit. In her extraordinarily researched study she extricates how most of the degenerative diseases like cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes etc can be either initiated or made worse by the excessive intake of sugar
The book starts with scrupulous tactics to conclude whether you actually are a sugarholic and to test the food allergies pertaining to the consumption of the sugar. Later on, Dr. Appleton elucidates three distinctive tactics to switch the sugar licking habit and transform the love for sweet factories into a need of healthy life style. At the end of the book she exclusively provides with so many easy and quick cooking recipes in order to start low sugar life style.
Sugar unbalancing act
In the second chapter of the amazingly informative book, Dr. Appleton describes the importance of minerals for the proper functioning of the body. He focused on the consumption of minerals by telling the benefits of consuming minerals such as minerals help in maintaining rigidity of hard tissues as well as it makes bones and teeth stronger and help in stimulating never impulses throughout the body. These core minerals include calcium (for making bones stronger), phosphorous (to stimulate metabolic functioning), magnesium (used as a catalyst to stimulate body functioning), iron (to increase hemoglobin), iodine (to cater thyroid gland) and zinc ( to stimulate liver functioning).