Beat Sugar Addiction Now! by Jacob Teitelbaum MD and Chrystle Fiedler

The rest of this book's title says it all "The Cutting-Edge Program That Cures Your Type of Sugar Addiction and Puts You on the Road to Feeling Great -- and Losing Weight!"

Update from fall 2011: The Cookbook to go with this book is now out! I've posted a piece about it a couple of comments down.  At Amazon you can purchase this book for $11.55 and the cookbook is $10.73 for a total of $22.28! I'm adding this note on Cyber Monday.  I suggest you consider purchasing these for gifting to those you love and care about AND ask for it from those who might have YOU on their list.  If you can afford more for someone, to make it more FUN, put some good dark chocolate that is recommended in the gift box or bag, a cooking gadget you like, etc.  

This book exceeded my expectations by a LONG shot and I was expecting it to be good!  I have to say that it is now at THE top of my list of books that I will recommend to essentially anyone who eats. If someone already eats like a nutrition guru then I'll recommend it to them so they can know about it as a resource to the inevitable many they see around them striving and struggling with their health and having eating and nutrition having the inevitable role. 

Not only does Beat Sugar Addiction Now! cover in the first two parts of the book four different 'types' (which have to do with 'reasons') of health issues or symptoms related to eating and drinking 'behaviors', there are 9 separate sections related to treating specific health problems: anxiety, CFS and FMS, depression, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, heart disease, hypothyroidism, irritable bowel/spastic colon, migraines and tension headaches, obesity, and sinusitus.   There are four appendices related to simplifying treatment plans, glycemic index information, finding a practitioner, and resources for obtaining all the things covered in the book.  From prescription medications to water filters to saunas, they've listed one or two options... same as I do with Lumigrate, in order to STREAMLINE it for people. 

And how handy that one of the two compounding pharmacies recommended is the one Lumigrate also recommends for our national following! (ITC -- we posted podcasts late March for our 2nd anniversary/birthday you can get to know them better -- what they're about as well as their overview about hormone testing and supplementation.  Podcasts don't yet have their own tab so they're in Forums in the top forum AND we're on iTunes too if you actually download to a devise as opposed to listening while at the computer or working around the kitchen the way I do).   I'll put their link at the bottom to encourage YOU to go to their website and order one because IF they see Lumigrate's people are buying the books they already sell they'll start carrying the ones on the Lumigrate bookshelf as well!  FibroWHYalgia and See it! Say it! DO it! , plus the companion cookbook to this book that Deirdre Rawlings provided the recipes to are my top choices if I can only get three through their doors.  They are good about not having things in the way people aren't needing or wanting.  

Then I provide a local option on Lumigrate as I felt it critical to demonstrate how a community can come together and have a strong network of providers and then if there's a gap, Lumigrate has a company/provider which will work remotely.  That way anyone in the US or beyond sometimes can access our 'virtual integrative community of providers' and hopefully find at least some providers in their local community and then do as I have done and reach beyond for the expertise desired/required. 

I've long been a fan of Dr Teitelbaum -- far enough back that I own the second edition of From Fatigued to Fantastic -- it's now in it's third edition.  That book and the timeframe it was produced initially is what makes me think of Dr T as 'the granddaddy of fibromyalgia and fatigue information' -- I hope he takes that as a compliment!  

It was a pleasure to present at the same conference with him on chronic pain during the summer of 2009 in Berkeley, California and observe him staying until the last person with FMS/CFS was done picking his brain -- which had to do with foot orthotics as I recall.  It was something that's not in any of the books or his website and just further impressed upon me the breadth of his information and helpfulness to people. It was very respectful of him to speak with me on his way out and follow up on my previous request related to if he would come to Grand Junction to train physicians if we were to get enough support for that.  That planted to seed for me of how to go about educating physicians through Lumigrate for smaller communities to ours in Grand Junction, Colorado that do not have the quantity of providers required to bring in a 'big name' like Dr Teitelbaum.  So it's interesting to me that again our paths cross with one of  the two compounding pharmacy he recommends being Lumigrate's answer to that challenge as of recently. (I hope the podcasts will be found by not only the public seeking information but also of interest to the medical providers.)

Dr T certainly was a "G-dsend" to me years back, as Yenta here at Lumigrate would write it, as I was very actively searching for information about CFS and FMS in bookstores at the time of my having FMS but not knowing that's what it was -- I'd guess I purchased my 2nd edition copy in Denver in the late 1990s.  When I re-read From Fatigued to Fantastic last year, I wished I'd done a better job in the late 90s and first five years after 2000 'staying with' what I'd learned in the book.  I think it's very easy to learn new information and incorporate it and 'get better and back to normal' and then let things unravel again.  Making lasting changes permanent is difficult as each person is but one grain of sand in the terrarium of our families and extended communities and it's easy to get washed away with the 'norms of society'.  At least that's my story ('and I'm stickin' to it', LOL).

That's why I'm very proud of having provided the video series on Lumigrate.com with our launch in 2009 which includes not only four full hour seminars on subjects such as detoxing, food allergies, hypothyroidism and supplements, but also our most popular full lenth seminar 'Strategies for Lasting Change'.  (the 20 minute Chronic Illness: Full Barrel Syndrome is actually the most downloaded likely due to it's 20 minute timeframe, but for those who want to spend more time investing in their health and like seminars, there are excellent free opportunities for you at Lumigrate). So please look at the videos section of Lumigrate if you haven't already and consider spending the time to download and watch and learn via a video seminar.  Maybe start with the 20 minute one on Chronic Illness and then go to the Strategies for Lasting Change by psychologist Dr Paula King and apply the concepts from those videos to what you learn when you obtain a copy of this outstanding new book from Dr Teitelbaum. "Integrate" the information into your life!  As I say, Live and Learn -- Learn and Live Better. 

I plan to purchase the companion and NEW cookbook when it comes out, which is also co-authored by Deirdre Rawlings, ND, PhD,  contributor to Lumigrate.com's Forums.  Her initial book Food That Helps Win the Battle Against Fibromyalgia, is an excellent resource related to more indepth information related to nutrition and really all the health issues listed above, but specifically focused to fibromyalgia.  So now I believe I'd recommend that book be read after this book by Dr Teitelbaum and presume that people will then be up for going to the recipe book (which I understand is due out December of 2011, HOLIDAY GIFT TIME, where's my wish list!) which is 'the best of both worlds' if it has Dr T and Dr Dee, if you ask me!

The recipe section in Dr Dee's first book, which is about 150 pages of wonderful recipes with beautiful photos and handy 'what's in this related to our learning concepts' at-a-glance boxes, is very appealing to people who enjoy cooking and I've suggested her book to as many people without FMS as who have it because of that.  Again, I'm looking forward to having the best of both worlds now with Dr Teitelbaum and Dr Dee having teamed up for the companion recipe book for Beat Sugar Addiction Now!  For NOW, be proactive and purchase somewhere (or ask your library to order it in and borrow it for FREE then help your community's information level when you turn it in.)  ~~ Mardy

Please consider purchasing a copy from ITC Pharmacy so they'll see that the Lumigrate consumers will purchase books and quality low cost supplements from them... all in the same package and keep shipping costs and 'green' things in line.  Simplifying this health care 'stuff' is what I as an OT recommend to people and education and supplements go hand in hand!  www.itcpharmacy.com  Click on their online store and "Books" is in the list there, you'll see.  THANK YOU, VOTE WITH YOUR $ and make change in whatever little ways we can for others in our footsteps/path we're paving the Groove for!