- Sugar Busters
The Sugar Busters diet is a
low-carbohydrate diet focused on eliminating foods containing refined carbohydrates such as refinedsugar ,white flour , andwhite rice , as well as naturally-occurring carbohydrates rating high on theglycemic index such aspotatoes andcarrots .cite book
last = Steward
first = H. Leighton
coauthors = et al
title = The New Sugar Busters
origdate = 2002-12-24
accessdate = 2007-12-27
publisher = Ballantine Books
isbn = 978-0345455376
pages = 368 pages ] cite web
url = http://www.webmd.com/content/pages/7/3220_290.htm
title = Sugar Busters! What It Is
author = Grayson, Charlotte E.
accessdate = 2007-12-27
publisher = WebMD ]Sugar Busters was created by H. Leighton Steward, Sam S. Andrews, Morrison C. Bethea, and Luis A. Balart.
The original "Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat" was
self-published by the authors in 1995 and became a local hit in their hometown ofNew Orleans , after whichBallantine Books republished the book nationally. The Ballantine edition hit #1 on theNew York Times bestseller list in June 2001 [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101980706-139508,00.html] . An updated "The New Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat" was published in 2003.References
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