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Sugarless
A 7-step Plan To Uncover Hidden Sugars, Curb Your Cravings, And Conquer Your Addiction
Nicole M. Avena(0)
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Break free from sugar addiction and take control of your health. In Sugarless, pioneering neuroscientist Dr. Nicole Avena provides a revolutionary step-by-step plan to help readers curb sweet cravings and quit sugar once and for all. With surprising sources of hidden sugars exposed, Dr. Avena's 7-step program empowers you to overcome sugar addiction by identifying sugar traps, taming your sweet tooth, and breaking the vicious diet cycle.
Backed by over 100 studies, Dr. Avena reveals how processed foods with refined sugars can be even more addictive than illicit drugs. She dispels myths blaming lack of willpower, and proves biologically how sugar affects the brain. With a foreword by Dr. Daniel Amen and 30 sugar-free recipes, this book provides the perfect blueprint for your sugar detox.
Hailed as the first to study sugar addiction, Dr. Avena is the world's foremost authority on the topic. Her blend of compelling research and actionable solutions makes embarking on your own sugar detox for beginners straightforward. Simply follow her advice to feel more in control, stop craving sugar, and start feeling healthier.
Key Features:
• Science-backed 7-step program to reduce sugar consumption
• 30 delicious sugar-free recipes
• Foreword by Dr. Daniel Amen, 12-time New York Times bestselling author and integrative psychiatrist
• Surprising sources of hidden sugars revealed
• Tools to resist sweet cravings and manage sugar withdrawal
• Practical plan to break the cycle for good Nicole M. Avena, PhD, is a pioneering research neuroscientist, author, and expert in the fields of nutrition, diet, and addiction. She's the author of more than 100 scholarly journal articles, and the first in the field to study sugar addiction in the laboratory. She has written several books on nutrition and diet, including What to Eat When You're Pregnant and Why Diets Fail. Dr. Avena received her PhD in neuroscience and psychology from Princeton University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biology at The Rockefeller University in New York City. Dr. Avena has regularly appeared on TV and radio, including The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors, Jonathan Van Ness's Getting Curious, and CNN; and speaks at universities, government agencies, and special interest groups about her research. She's also a frequent contributor to PsychologyToday.com, MindBodyGreen, and Sharecare. INTRODUCTION
In the summer of 2001, most of my friends, like me, had just graduated from college. They had chosen to move to big cities, get fancy jobs, and spend their nights hanging out with friends and going to concerts-typical stuff for twenty-something-year-olds. I, on the other hand, had chosen a different way to spend my evenings. I spent them feeding rats.
Let me back up for a minute and give you some context. I had started graduate school at Princeton University that summer. I arrived in Princeton with a huge case of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the psychological term used to describe the feelings that people can get when they think they don't deserve to be someplace, and that at any moment someone is going to discover they are a fraud or an "imposter" and expose them. (A topic for another book, I suppose.) No one in my family had ever even been to college, and here I was getting a PhD in neuroscience from an Ivy League school. I couldn't help but feel that clearly, someone had made a mistake in letting me in.
Despite the negative voices in my head, I resolved to push forward and do my best. I was assigned to work with a professor named Dr. Bartley Hoebel. His friends and students all called him Bart. He was a very tall (6′7″-ish), lean man, who had a quiet, gentle nature. He was a true Ivy Leaguer, having trained at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, and was now a well-respected professor at Princeton. He was accomplished, with hundreds of published scientific
Backed by over 100 studies, Dr. Avena reveals how processed foods with refined sugars can be even more addictive than illicit drugs. She dispels myths blaming lack of willpower, and proves biologically how sugar affects the brain. With a foreword by Dr. Daniel Amen and 30 sugar-free recipes, this book provides the perfect blueprint for your sugar detox.
Hailed as the first to study sugar addiction, Dr. Avena is the world's foremost authority on the topic. Her blend of compelling research and actionable solutions makes embarking on your own sugar detox for beginners straightforward. Simply follow her advice to feel more in control, stop craving sugar, and start feeling healthier.
Key Features:
• Science-backed 7-step program to reduce sugar consumption
• 30 delicious sugar-free recipes
• Foreword by Dr. Daniel Amen, 12-time New York Times bestselling author and integrative psychiatrist
• Surprising sources of hidden sugars revealed
• Tools to resist sweet cravings and manage sugar withdrawal
• Practical plan to break the cycle for good Nicole M. Avena, PhD, is a pioneering research neuroscientist, author, and expert in the fields of nutrition, diet, and addiction. She's the author of more than 100 scholarly journal articles, and the first in the field to study sugar addiction in the laboratory. She has written several books on nutrition and diet, including What to Eat When You're Pregnant and Why Diets Fail. Dr. Avena received her PhD in neuroscience and psychology from Princeton University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biology at The Rockefeller University in New York City. Dr. Avena has regularly appeared on TV and radio, including The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors, Jonathan Van Ness's Getting Curious, and CNN; and speaks at universities, government agencies, and special interest groups about her research. She's also a frequent contributor to PsychologyToday.com, MindBodyGreen, and Sharecare. INTRODUCTION
In the summer of 2001, most of my friends, like me, had just graduated from college. They had chosen to move to big cities, get fancy jobs, and spend their nights hanging out with friends and going to concerts-typical stuff for twenty-something-year-olds. I, on the other hand, had chosen a different way to spend my evenings. I spent them feeding rats.
Let me back up for a minute and give you some context. I had started graduate school at Princeton University that summer. I arrived in Princeton with a huge case of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the psychological term used to describe the feelings that people can get when they think they don't deserve to be someplace, and that at any moment someone is going to discover they are a fraud or an "imposter" and expose them. (A topic for another book, I suppose.) No one in my family had ever even been to college, and here I was getting a PhD in neuroscience from an Ivy League school. I couldn't help but feel that clearly, someone had made a mistake in letting me in.
Despite the negative voices in my head, I resolved to push forward and do my best. I was assigned to work with a professor named Dr. Bartley Hoebel. His friends and students all called him Bart. He was a very tall (6′7″-ish), lean man, who had a quiet, gentle nature. He was a true Ivy Leaguer, having trained at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, and was now a well-respected professor at Princeton. He was accomplished, with hundreds of published scientific