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Becoming Sugar-Free: How to Break Up with Inflammatory Sugars and Embrace a Naturally Sweet Life
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
*SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Taste Canada Award for Health and Special-Diet Cookbooks*
Nutritionist and bestselling author of Meals that Heal Inflammation , Julie Daniluk shows readers how to kick sugar once and for all and enjoy a sweet life.
Julie Daniluk has helped thousands of people find freedom from sugar cravings. Drawing on personal experience and the latest research, she demystifies the science and explains the dangers of sugar and how you can kick your sugar habit, restore your health and empower your performance. By decreasing and ultimately removing sugar from your diet, you can reduce inflammation in your body and improve your overall health. It can be one of the first steps to relieving the struggle and pain of arthritis, bursitis, colitis, heart disease, weight gain, memory loss, depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and a myriad of other inflammatory conditions.
In Becoming Sugar-Free , Julie walks you through everything you need to know to create a powerful sugar-free from why sugar is the most harmful food ingredient, to how to make easy swaps for healthy sweeteners. She shares what happens in your brain when you eat sweets and how to conquer emotional eating and kick sugar to the curb. Featuring over 25 healthy alternative sweeteners explored in depth, an effective plan to easily begin using them in daily life and over 85 delicious anti-inflammatory recipes, Becoming Sugar-Free is the essential go-to guide for those who want to break up with sugar once and for all.
*SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Taste Canada Award for Health and Special-Diet Cookbooks*
Nutritionist and bestselling author of Meals that Heal Inflammation , Julie Daniluk shows readers how to kick sugar once and for all and enjoy a sweet life.
Julie Daniluk has helped thousands of people find freedom from sugar cravings. Drawing on personal experience and the latest research, she demystifies the science and explains the dangers of sugar and how you can kick your sugar habit, restore your health and empower your performance. By decreasing and ultimately removing sugar from your diet, you can reduce inflammation in your body and improve your overall health. It can be one of the first steps to relieving the struggle and pain of arthritis, bursitis, colitis, heart disease, weight gain, memory loss, depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and a myriad of other inflammatory conditions.
In Becoming Sugar-Free , Julie walks you through everything you need to know to create a powerful sugar-free from why sugar is the most harmful food ingredient, to how to make easy swaps for healthy sweeteners. She shares what happens in your brain when you eat sweets and how to conquer emotional eating and kick sugar to the curb. Featuring over 25 healthy alternative sweeteners explored in depth, an effective plan to easily begin using them in daily life and over 85 delicious anti-inflammatory recipes, Becoming Sugar-Free is the essential go-to guide for those who want to break up with sugar once and for all.
328 pages, Paperback
Published September 7, 2021
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March 28, 2022There seems to be a race to the bookshelves for decadent books featuring outrageous desserts and recipes packed with sugar, and books that offer recipes that are void of sugar, presenting healthier alternatives.
Julie Daniluk has made it a career of presenting books that offer healthier food choices. She has the credentials and expertise to become someone whose advice you should heed. In her latest, BECOMING SUGAR-FREE, she presents to readers ways to shirk sugar and still enjoy your meals. She states that, “Sugar has a grip on society. It is estimated that Canadians eat, on average, 26 teaspoons of sugar per days, which translates to a shocking 88 pounds of sugar per year. The World Health Organization recommends that women eat less than 6 teaspoons per day and men eat less than 9 teaspoons because of its negative impact on health.” She goes on to offer facts and figures on sugar and the damage it can do.
She relates the benefits of a sugar free lifestyle. Among those benefits are looking younger, improving gut health, protecting one’s memory, achieving hormonal balance, reducing risk of cancer, and protecting your heart, among others. A chapter on the complete guide to natural sweeteners and sugar alternatives, gets into the heart and soul of sugar, providing factual data on the worst sugars and the best sweeteners we can use. Artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame are not given a passing grade, as Daniluk shows their hazards also.
The main fact is there are alternatives that are healthy, and will take away one’s dependence of sugars. We find those in the variety of recipes at the back of the book. There are many to choose from including: Banana bread cookie crackers, baked porridge in a jar, avocado keto brownies, chippy chocolate cookies, baked gingerbread pancakes, onion ring chips, green bean casserole, carrot cake muffins, and wonderful grain-free waffles, give readers the starting point for enjoying food without the reliance on so much sugar.
With lots of photos to add to the recipes, the author definitely presents alternative to sweets that will transform your body and health into something you never deemed possible. Now it can happen thanks to Julie Daniluk.
Julie Daniluk has made it a career of presenting books that offer healthier food choices. She has the credentials and expertise to become someone whose advice you should heed. In her latest, BECOMING SUGAR-FREE, she presents to readers ways to shirk sugar and still enjoy your meals. She states that, “Sugar has a grip on society. It is estimated that Canadians eat, on average, 26 teaspoons of sugar per days, which translates to a shocking 88 pounds of sugar per year. The World Health Organization recommends that women eat less than 6 teaspoons per day and men eat less than 9 teaspoons because of its negative impact on health.” She goes on to offer facts and figures on sugar and the damage it can do.
She relates the benefits of a sugar free lifestyle. Among those benefits are looking younger, improving gut health, protecting one’s memory, achieving hormonal balance, reducing risk of cancer, and protecting your heart, among others. A chapter on the complete guide to natural sweeteners and sugar alternatives, gets into the heart and soul of sugar, providing factual data on the worst sugars and the best sweeteners we can use. Artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame are not given a passing grade, as Daniluk shows their hazards also.
The main fact is there are alternatives that are healthy, and will take away one’s dependence of sugars. We find those in the variety of recipes at the back of the book. There are many to choose from including: Banana bread cookie crackers, baked porridge in a jar, avocado keto brownies, chippy chocolate cookies, baked gingerbread pancakes, onion ring chips, green bean casserole, carrot cake muffins, and wonderful grain-free waffles, give readers the starting point for enjoying food without the reliance on so much sugar.
With lots of photos to add to the recipes, the author definitely presents alternative to sweets that will transform your body and health into something you never deemed possible. Now it can happen thanks to Julie Daniluk.
December 2, 2022
There's a lot of good recipes in this book. Many are easy and some, like the yummy mushroom soup, don't require specialized ingredients. Low carb pecan stuffing replaces the bread with cauliflower rice which i think is a fantastic idea for a lighter dish. i like the light me up bread which uses no sugar or flour. Like many of the recipes, they are easier to make and there aren't too many ingredients. This book is definitely worth looking at if you want to try something a little different than you would normally make it.
I found the amount of pages dedicated to sugar substitutes overwhelming and unnecessary. Unfortunately it's easy to be put off by this book because the recipes follow all the knowledge Daniluk shares about sugar substitutes. Her knowledge impressed but to me was unwanted. I was also disappointed the author didn't also focus on low salt recipes ( there's a recipe for deep fried pickles). To me had the book aimed to provide delicious recipes for low salt and low sugar, it would have been a better book.
I found the amount of pages dedicated to sugar substitutes overwhelming and unnecessary. Unfortunately it's easy to be put off by this book because the recipes follow all the knowledge Daniluk shares about sugar substitutes. Her knowledge impressed but to me was unwanted. I was also disappointed the author didn't also focus on low salt recipes ( there's a recipe for deep fried pickles). To me had the book aimed to provide delicious recipes for low salt and low sugar, it would have been a better book.
June 26, 2022
Well, it got me to throw all the basic sugars out of my kitchen.
I didn't go extreme. Didn't worry about old dressings or ketchup. Still have maple syrup.
But all the white sugar for baking is gone - and I used a lot of it.
I feel way better after a batch of maple or date brownies than I did with my best recipe before the sugar culling.
It's a journey, and I'm taking it one step at a time. This book started that.
I didn't go extreme. Didn't worry about old dressings or ketchup. Still have maple syrup.
But all the white sugar for baking is gone - and I used a lot of it.
I feel way better after a batch of maple or date brownies than I did with my best recipe before the sugar culling.
It's a journey, and I'm taking it one step at a time. This book started that.
December 2, 2021
Lots of heart
I have been addicted to sugar all my life and wanted to want to break free but never made the transition. This book plus Julie’s membership program and becoming sugar free online course is making all the different. I finally want to be sugar free. Julie has written this book with her heart. My heart recognizes her heart💕😍😍😍
I have been addicted to sugar all my life and wanted to want to break free but never made the transition. This book plus Julie’s membership program and becoming sugar free online course is making all the different. I finally want to be sugar free. Julie has written this book with her heart. My heart recognizes her heart💕😍😍😍
September 21, 2021
Great information about the effects of sugar on our brains and bodies, and some really delicious recipes.
June 27, 2022
Not strictly sugar-free as it uses alternatives to sugar, which should be a consolation for those who can't go completely sugar-free if you have an addiction to sugar....
October 22, 2022
Many of the recipes still use sweeteners like stevia & monk fruit. Very processed.
November 23, 2025
Lots of great information. Not sure I will ever be able to go sugar free because it is hidden in so many products.
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