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A confirmed sugar addict since childhood, Schaub was shocked to discover the role of sugar in an array of illnesses and the fact that sugar (mostly high fructose corn syrup) is an ingredient in nearly every American food product. She challenged her family (husband and two young daughters) to join her in a year of abstention from added sugar (everything from table sugar to molasses to fruit juice) and chronicled their trials and triumphs. Inspired by the research of Dr. Robert Lustig (Fat Chance), Schaub learned the connection between overconsumption of sugar and cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Her own research identified sugar in most school and restaurant meals and in surprising places on the store shelves, including sauces, dressings, soups, and breads. She debunks questionable nutritional advice, pokes fun at her own past experiments with health fads, and recalls the particular challenges of sweets-laden Halloween and Christmas. At the end of the year, the family was healthier, and they had accumulated a store of ideas and recipes (included in the book) to counter the craving for something sweet. --Vanessa Bush
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"The diary I wish I had kept ... the adventures of her family, the roadblocks they encountered, and the sheer daily difficulty of overcoming a national obsession." - From the foreword by David Gillespie, author of Sweet Poison
"Eve O. Schaub's Year of No Sugar has the potential to alter your deeply rooted convictions regarding the innocent pleasure of sugar." - Betsy Shaw, Babycenter.com blogger and former Olympic snowboarder
"The surface charm of Year of No Sugar-breezy wit, blithe anecdote and effortless evocation of people and the stuff they put in their mouths-cannot conceal Schaub's deeper purpose: a takedown of sugar, its disarming myths, its dangerous presence in nearly everything we eat, and its cynical marketing. Delicious and compelling, her book is just about the best sugar substitute I've ever encountered." - Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Ron Powers
"[Schaub] debunks questionable nutritional advice, pokes fun at her own past experiments with health fads, and recalls the particular challenges of sweets-laden Halloween and Christmas. At the end of the year, the family was healthier, and they had accumulated a store of ideas and recipes (included in the book) to counter the craving for something sweet." - Booklist
"Delightfully readable account of how [Schaub] and her family survived a yearlong sugar-free diet-and lived to tell the tale. ... A funny, intelligent and informative memoir." - Kirkus
"informative and hilarious ... Eve and her husband tackled every blip, fit and question with a heaping dose of good humor." - Woman's World
Eve Schaub has certainly heightened my awareness of sugar. After reading Year of No Sugar, I haven't been able to walk in the grocery store without reading a label (which I always did, but now it's really consuming). If you're looking for an entertaining read, pick up a copy and see if you can't help but avoiding the sweet stuff-even that can be addictive.
I admire Eve and her family for their stick-to-itiveness, and I highly recommend Year of No Sugar. It's a quick read, but will leave you thinking for a long time. It certainly raised my awareness.
Schaub is a wonderful storyteller. Her sense of humor and ability to paint pictures of situations they find themselves makes Year of No Sugar a pleasure to read. Whether or not you decide to follow in her footsteps concerning limiting or removing sugar from your diet, you will undoubtedly enjoy reading her story, and find lots of food for thought as well.
"Eve O. Schaub's Year of No Sugar has the potential to alter your deeply rooted convictions regarding the innocent pleasure of sugar." - Betsy Shaw, Babycenter.com blogger and former Olympic snowboarder
"The surface charm of Year of No Sugar-breezy wit, blithe anecdote and effortless evocation of people and the stuff they put in their mouths-cannot conceal Schaub's deeper purpose: a takedown of sugar, its disarming myths, its dangerous presence in nearly everything we eat, and its cynical marketing. Delicious and compelling, her book is just about the best sugar substitute I've ever encountered." - Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Ron Powers
"[Schaub] debunks questionable nutritional advice, pokes fun at her own past experiments with health fads, and recalls the particular challenges of sweets-laden Halloween and Christmas. At the end of the year, the family was healthier, and they had accumulated a store of ideas and recipes (included in the book) to counter the craving for something sweet." - Booklist
"Delightfully readable account of how [Schaub] and her family survived a yearlong sugar-free diet-and lived to tell the tale. ... A funny, intelligent and informative memoir." - Kirkus
"informative and hilarious ... Eve and her husband tackled every blip, fit and question with a heaping dose of good humor." - Woman's World
Eve Schaub has certainly heightened my awareness of sugar. After reading Year of No Sugar, I haven't been able to walk in the grocery store without reading a label (which I always did, but now it's really consuming). If you're looking for an entertaining read, pick up a copy and see if you can't help but avoiding the sweet stuff-even that can be addictive.
I admire Eve and her family for their stick-to-itiveness, and I highly recommend Year of No Sugar. It's a quick read, but will leave you thinking for a long time. It certainly raised my awareness.
Schaub is a wonderful storyteller. Her sense of humor and ability to paint pictures of situations they find themselves makes Year of No Sugar a pleasure to read. Whether or not you decide to follow in her footsteps concerning limiting or removing sugar from your diet, you will undoubtedly enjoy reading her story, and find lots of food for thought as well.
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66 of 68 people found the following review helpful
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William M Choat
on April 8, 2014
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This book is filled with well-written and amusing stories of the author and her family surviving and thriving during the Year of No Sugar. But more importantly this book contains the author's detail-driven description of the background, living through the actual Year of No Sugar, and some summary information of life after the year of eating food containing absolutely no added sugar.
When beginning this book I was mildly bored with perhaps too much about the history of the author's Vermont lifestyle and the interactions among the community members. However, once my reading began to flow with the author's writing style, the book became much more entertaining. Of particular interest to me was the number of food-filled events in the life of her family to which I could so easily relate with my family and the raising of our daughter. The candy, the cookies, the cakes, the birthdays, the holidays...all far too descriptive of exactly how things had been in my home.
My family became interested in the No Sugar concept after finding Dr. Robert Lustig's youtube video to which Ms. Schaub so frequently refers. Of further interest is a book by David Gillespie titled Sweet Poison, which Ms. Schaub also uses as a primary reference for her book. There were numerous times I turned to the internet to find more information about these two sources and to search amazon.com for so many cooking ingredients mentioned in this book, more often than not ending with the actual ordering of the product (such as powdered dextrose and glucose syrup). I also have placed a Champion juicer machine in my amazon.com shopping cart for possible purchase; don't suspect for a minute the influence of her father-in-law ended with just her immediate family. <smile>
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When beginning this book I was mildly bored with perhaps too much about the history of the author's Vermont lifestyle and the interactions among the community members. However, once my reading began to flow with the author's writing style, the book became much more entertaining. Of particular interest to me was the number of food-filled events in the life of her family to which I could so easily relate with my family and the raising of our daughter. The candy, the cookies, the cakes, the birthdays, the holidays...all far too descriptive of exactly how things had been in my home.
My family became interested in the No Sugar concept after finding Dr. Robert Lustig's youtube video to which Ms. Schaub so frequently refers. Of further interest is a book by David Gillespie titled Sweet Poison, which Ms. Schaub also uses as a primary reference for her book. There were numerous times I turned to the internet to find more information about these two sources and to search amazon.com for so many cooking ingredients mentioned in this book, more often than not ending with the actual ordering of the product (such as powdered dextrose and glucose syrup). I also have placed a Champion juicer machine in my amazon.com shopping cart for possible purchase; don't suspect for a minute the influence of her father-in-law ended with just her immediate family. <smile>
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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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thesweetersong
on April 11, 2014
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Year of No Sugar: A Memoir is one of those books that I'm just glad I purchased and read cover to cover. Schaub brings a lot of lightheartedness and fun to the pages, and I came to really appreciate her writing style. I felt like I was in her cozy living room, sharing a glass of wine as she recounted her most interesting year - the year of no sugar. It's very anecdotal, very casual, and, for me personally, it fit me like a glove.
It didn't reach the five star mark for me, however. I have long been a David Gillespie fan (author of Sweet Poison), and I was delighted to know Schaub was, also. I was nodding along with the author as she expressed how sugar was so engrained into American society, and that shocked and horrified her. She even goes as far as joking about the fact that she felt like she had a superpower of seeing all the hidden sugar on the victim's plate, that of course they were unaware of (things like ketchup, mayonnaise, white bread). Towards the end of the book, however, I was left puzzled. After the year of no sugar that she and her family had endured, they go back to their sugary eating again - not in the high quantities as they once did, but not as far as their sugarless 365 days. This is not criticism of her personal choices, but rather, left me a little... I don't know. Confused? Without closure?
Schaub compares it to enjoying alcohol. A little won't hurt you. Yet, I have to wonder if we're dealing with what she recounts often as "poison." A little "poison" intentionally will surely hurt you.
I also wasn't sure where Schaub got the idea that dried fruit was okay in her plan, as Gillespie, as far as I know, isn't an advocate of it, saying that it was far too concentrated. I would've perhaps liked a better explanation as to her reasoning behind this.Read more ›
It didn't reach the five star mark for me, however. I have long been a David Gillespie fan (author of Sweet Poison), and I was delighted to know Schaub was, also. I was nodding along with the author as she expressed how sugar was so engrained into American society, and that shocked and horrified her. She even goes as far as joking about the fact that she felt like she had a superpower of seeing all the hidden sugar on the victim's plate, that of course they were unaware of (things like ketchup, mayonnaise, white bread). Towards the end of the book, however, I was left puzzled. After the year of no sugar that she and her family had endured, they go back to their sugary eating again - not in the high quantities as they once did, but not as far as their sugarless 365 days. This is not criticism of her personal choices, but rather, left me a little... I don't know. Confused? Without closure?
Schaub compares it to enjoying alcohol. A little won't hurt you. Yet, I have to wonder if we're dealing with what she recounts often as "poison." A little "poison" intentionally will surely hurt you.
I also wasn't sure where Schaub got the idea that dried fruit was okay in her plan, as Gillespie, as far as I know, isn't an advocate of it, saying that it was far too concentrated. I would've perhaps liked a better explanation as to her reasoning behind this.Read more ›
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44 of 53 people found the following review helpful
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Randal Schlosser
on April 12, 2014
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When your recipe includes 3 1/2 cups of dextrose it is hard to tell if you know what the word, "sugar," even means.
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65 of 81 people found the following review helpful
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hereswhatithink
on April 15, 2014
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3 1/2 Stars
I'm a little mixed on this. I did enjoy it, very much actually, but the title is a little wrong. I don't want to be pedantic but it was not 'a year without sugar', it was an attempted year with no sugar; and there's a big difference. I know because Ive done it myself.
I had "no sugar in any shape or form, no substitutes and no cheating" for 18 months, several years ago. Yes, I had a health reason for doing so (and therefore more impetus) but I'm just saying it can be done. Diabetics do it all the time.
This was more of a "We're having no sugar for an entire year~ except dextrose, glucose syrup, rice syrup, mashed dates and of course one REAL cheat a month. What?? I know, I know, I'm a spoilsport, but sugar alternatives aside, ~I'm not going to touch that one~ I don't think there should have been monthly cheats. Period. Full stop. It's either "A Year without Sugar" or it isn't.
Anyway, you're probably wondering why I still gave it 3 1/2 stars.
The fact is, I enjoyed it. It's a fun read. It's honest and REAL and I think most people will relate to the "we're only human and its gelato for goodness sake" ideology.
I also felt pretty nostalgic while reading it since the authors background and my own was so similar. Even down to the ethical vegetarianism, growing up in Vermont,the 80s, affection for maple syrup, rhubarb and other things that make up "me".
So it's not a health book, like "Sugar Blues" which by the way is excellent if you're looking for a health book) its more of a memoir of trying to make healthier choices in one's own family, and how that panned out in reality.
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One thing that I wish was cleaned up a bit more was the language.Read more ›
I'm a little mixed on this. I did enjoy it, very much actually, but the title is a little wrong. I don't want to be pedantic but it was not 'a year without sugar', it was an attempted year with no sugar; and there's a big difference. I know because Ive done it myself.
I had "no sugar in any shape or form, no substitutes and no cheating" for 18 months, several years ago. Yes, I had a health reason for doing so (and therefore more impetus) but I'm just saying it can be done. Diabetics do it all the time.
This was more of a "We're having no sugar for an entire year~ except dextrose, glucose syrup, rice syrup, mashed dates and of course one REAL cheat a month. What?? I know, I know, I'm a spoilsport, but sugar alternatives aside, ~I'm not going to touch that one~ I don't think there should have been monthly cheats. Period. Full stop. It's either "A Year without Sugar" or it isn't.
Anyway, you're probably wondering why I still gave it 3 1/2 stars.
The fact is, I enjoyed it. It's a fun read. It's honest and REAL and I think most people will relate to the "we're only human and its gelato for goodness sake" ideology.
I also felt pretty nostalgic while reading it since the authors background and my own was so similar. Even down to the ethical vegetarianism, growing up in Vermont,the 80s, affection for maple syrup, rhubarb and other things that make up "me".
So it's not a health book, like "Sugar Blues" which by the way is excellent if you're looking for a health book) its more of a memoir of trying to make healthier choices in one's own family, and how that panned out in reality.
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One thing that I wish was cleaned up a bit more was the language.Read more ›
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