The Malaysian Insider :: Books
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| New book details one family’s sugar-free year Posted: 10 Apr 2014 06:24 PM PDT In a world full of processed foods, added sugar is everywhere. No longer limited to desserts and breakfast cereals, added sugar has made its way to virtually every aisle of the supermarket and can be found in baby food, condiments, savoury sauces and even cold cuts. But it is possible to avoid sugar, as the Schaub family learned. Eve Schaub, who lives in Vermont with her cat and her five chickens, embarked upon her "Year of No Sugar" in 2011, along with her husband and her two daughters, aged six and eleven at the time. The mother of two was inspired – or rather, alarmed – by the work of the pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, who compares fructose to a poison, particularly for children. Judged to be responsible for an increase in obesity and type 2 diabetes, excess sugar consumption has also been linked to certain kinds of cancer and heart disease, Schaub learned. Over the course of one year, the family learned how to identify added sugar in its various forms on food labels. Eventually, the Schaubs found ways to avoid sugar without drastically changing their diet. For example, the family switched from store-bought to homemade for a number of dishes, such as mayonnaise and bread. In her book and her blog, Eve Schaub shares recipes and tips on how to dine out and shop while eliminating added sugar. And even after just one year, the efforts paid off. "We felt healthier, it seemed like we got sick less, like we got better faster or got milder colds. My kids missed significantly less school," the author told the Huffington Post in an interview. She specifies that no one lost weight, but that this was not one of the family's goals. "I'm not a doctor, I'm not a nutritionist. I'm a mum who decided to go on an adventure," Schaub explains. Today, two years after the end of the experiment, Schaub says she and the rest of the family still have "more sensitive palates and a more subtle appreciation for sweetness" than before. Desserts in the household are small, infrequent and almost always homemade. – AFP/Relaxnews, April 11, 2014. |
| Sue Townsend, creator of Adrian Mole series, dies at 68 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 06:03 PM PDT According to the broadcaster, her son Danny Townsend confirmed that the novelist had died at home yesterday after a short illness. After writing a series of well-received plays, Townsend was catapulted to mainstream fame when she released "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾" in 1982. Within three years, the book had sold close to two million copies and was followed in 1984 by "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole", which helped her to become Britain's top-selling author of the 1980s. "Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years", the last of the eight-part series, was released in 2009. Townsend, who was born in the central England city of Leicester in 1946, lost her sight after being diagnosed with diabetes in the 1980s. She underwent a kidney transplant in 2009, with her eldest son Sean donating one of his organs, and suffered a stroke over Christmas 2012. – April 11, 2014. |
Sue Townsend (pic), the British author responsible for the multi-million selling Adrian Mole series documenting the hum-drum life of an awkward teenager, has died aged 68, her son told the BBC today.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider : Books To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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