Anita Flegg of Ottawa is on a mission.
The author of Hypoglycemia: The Other Sugar Disease believes that Americans and Canadians alike would benefit greatly by kicking their sugar habit, ditching fast foods, eliminating caffeine, quit eating of processed foods like TV dinners, and remove soft drinks from home fridges and school vending machines.
A woman after my own heart.
"All of us have dreams of utopia,’’ says Anita. "Mine involves community gardens and neighborhood potluck dinners where no one brings KFC or Timbits…and in my world, kids would spend more time on their bikes than on their X-boxes and there would be no 200-pound 12-year-olds on insulin.’’
Anita espouses this romantic, idyllic image in announcing the release of the second edition of Hypoglycemia: The Other Sugar Disease, which she recently self-published.
Ron Rosedale, M.D. a nationally known expert in nutritional and metabolic medicine, wrote the foreword.
Like many of us who’ve kicked sugar, Anita has an inspiring story, as I’ve learned over the past couple of years through e-mails and phone conversations with her.
Indeed, Anita is a hypoglycemic and former sugar addict, who turned her life around by cutting out sweets and eating right.
She now works hard to get the word out about the dangers of sugar and hypoglycemia through her book, Hypoglycemia: The Other Sugar Disease and her Hypoglycemia Survival Tips.
The horrendous facts that Anita states simply can’t be repeated often enough.
If people don’t stop their sugar and junk food habit, they could develop such life-threatening diseases as type 2 diabetes, which is now tragically hitting children as young as 8.
In the latest edition of her book, Anita contends that as many as 100 million North Americans suffer from hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), which can be triggered by a diet heavy in sweets and refined carbs. (Actually, I cite even higher figures.)
The sad part is that when people suffer from such hypoglycemic symptoms as weight gain, irritability before meals and loss of concentration, many of them have no idea why they’re so miserable, Anita points out.
Check out the testimonials for Anita’s book. (In fact, I’m one of the people offering one.)
You may also wish to see a partial list of sugars, which Anita used, with my permission.
You can get Anita’s book, Hypoglycemia: The Other Sugar Disease, 2nd Edition, at Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com.