Synopses & Reviews
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“If you are ready to love yourself and your body, abandon the wounds of your past, and free yourself from unhealthy addictions, then read Beyond Sugar Shock. Then, combine the information it contains with your new-found inspiration.” –Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of A Book of Miracles and Faith, Hope & Healing
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“We are born loving sugar for its sweetness and its ability to help us store up fat for lean times. Times are no longer lean for most and too much sugar is ruining our health and our lives. Beyond Sugar Shock gives you everything you need to bring more sweetness and health into your life..... without the risk of sugar!" -- Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers:Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause
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“Sugar is NOT good for your brain. It increases erratic brain cell firing, promotes inflammation and is clearly addictive. Beyond Sugar Shock can help you get sugar out of your life and replace it with health and vitality. It is a powerful program full of easy tips and tactics.” –Daniel G. Amen, M.D., bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, Magnificent Mind at Any Age, and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
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"If you're a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life." --Kathy Smith, International Fitness Expert
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“This enjoyable book shows you how to change your diet, reduce your sugar intake, lose weight and enjoy greater energy than ever before.” –Brian Tracy, motivational speaker and author, Earn What You’re Really Worth “
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“Connie Bennett’s Sugar Shock! is one of the best books ever written about the toll taken by excess sugar consumption, and Beyond Sugar Shock! is a worthy and logical follow-up. Anyone can use her six-week action plan to break their sugar addiction—and make no mistake, sugar is addictive, not to mention complicit in diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, and an long list of other health calamities when consumed to excess. Connie is a true expert in the field, and this latest book of hers represents yet another major contribution. I give it my highest recommendation.” –Jeff O’Connell, Bodybuilding.com Editor-in-Chief, author of Sugar Nation
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"Beyond Sugar Shock fearlessly tackles the nation's Number One health crisis - the diabesity epidemic. Connie Bennett offers real life solutions, recipes, take-action programs and spot on science to help break the sugar addiction that is fueling our nation's health epidemic. In the right hands, this book could change the course of America's health with Connie Bennett's unique 6-week plan for a slimmer, sexier and sweeter YOU!” –Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S. author of The Fat Flush Plan and Fat Flush for Life
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“Break free! This refreshing and enlightening book shows how to release sugar addiction easily. It can save your life. Read it!” –Dr. Joe Vitale, author, The Attractor Factor
Synopsis
From Connie Bennett, author of the bestseller
Sugar Shock --the book that Mehmet Oz said "spills the beans" on the shocking impact of sugar and simple carbohydrates--comes
Beyond Sugar Shock, the first book to provide a simple, practical, mind-body-spirit plan to help readers break free of their sugar or carb addiction.
For the millions of people who suffer with problems such as low libido, excess weight, overpowering fatigue, and many other unexplained ailments, Beyond Sugar Shock provides a step-by-step, six-week program to gently guide readers to a healthier life. In this friendly, compassionate book, they'll find:
- A playful, but serious Sugar Shock Quiz to help readers learn about their personal sugar addiction.
- Easy, tried-and-true techniques that Connie used--and that her clients and Sugar Freedom Now participants now use--to successfully quit her sugar habits.
- Dozens of easy tips and tactics to stomp out carb cravings.
- Simple meal plans, tasty recipes, and a food/lifestyle pyramid that shows readers how to let go of quickie carbs and nonfoods (the Standard American Diet or SAD) and instead enjoy real, wholesome, health-giving nutrition.
- Entertaining, interactive "adventurcises" (adventurous exercises) such as "Do Sugary Soul Searching," "Party with the Produce," and "Snatch the E-Z Vitamins."
- Affirmations to refresh, rejuvenate, and renew the mind, body, and spirit.
- Remarkable success stories with before-and-after photos.
In Beyond Sugar Shock, readers will find out that letting go of their sugar or carb addiction is much simpler than it seems--and it can even be fun And once they've addressed their addiction, readers will not only look and feel better, but will also experience an overpowering sensation of joyous freedom and a sweeter, balanced life.
About the Author
Connie Bennett, C.H.C., C.P.C., A.C.C., is a nationally recognized motivational speaker, journalist, blogger, former sugar addict, and author of the best-selling book Sugar Shock!, which has been praised by Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Marilu Henner, Dr. Joseph Mercola, and many others. She is also a certified health coach, who studied at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN); a professional life coach, who trained with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC); and the host of the popular Gab with the Gurus Radio Show for which she interviews experts in health, human potential, social networking, and relationships such as Dr. Mehmet Oz, Marianne Williamson, Suzanne Somers, Marilu Henner, and Dr. Bernie Siegel.
Known as the “Smart Habits Girl” and the “Sugar Freedom Coach,” Connie helps people worldwide easily release their sugar addictions and other bad habits. Since 2002, Connie has offered her groundbreaking Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction Program (now called the Sugar Freedom Now Course).