Essential information about the most important breakthrough in nutritional science in half a century - a new class of nutrients that modern diets (organic or not) are severely depleted in. Whether you are wanting to regain or maintain health - you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to understand the see the power of these supplements.

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Product Description

Putting the terms "sugar" and "health" together seems almost like a paradox, but emerging evidence shows that certain types of sugars - commonly called saccharides or glyconutrients - are responsible for fighting off disease and maintaining overall health.

In Miracle Sugars, author Rita Elkins explains how eight essential sugars are at the core of our cells' ability to communicate and cooperate in the maintenance and balance of our bodies. The book outlines how these essential saccharides - which are found naturally in food and in available supplements - can fight infection, enhance immune function and battle an impressive variety of health disorders.

These sugars have been shown to reverse autoimmune disorders and diabetes, ease allergy symptoms, lower risk of heart disease, and improve overall function of the body's immune processes. Common infections, including cold, flu, ear infections, and herpes, respond well to use of saccharides, as do symptoms of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and lupus. Even cancer patients have found gylconutrients to enhance traditional treatments while lessening their debilitating side effects.

Supported by current and exciting research, Miracle Sugars provides authoritative proof that these "miracle" glyconutrients promise a world of benefits when it comes to your health.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #719221 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 203 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781580543675
• Condition: NEW
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About the Author
Rita Elkins, M.H., has worked as an author and research specialist in the health field for over ten years. She is the author of numerous books, including the award-winning Soy Smart Health (with New York Times' best-selling author Neil Solomon, M.D.) and A Maverick of Medicine Speaks to Women (with Duane Townsend, M.D.) Rita resides in Utah, is married, and has two daughters and two granddaughters.

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Customer Reviews

Miracle Sugars
This is sugar education that everyone needs....no, not table sugars! This packed 41 pages gives plenty of evidence that we should be paying attention to our intake of the 8 essential sugars so we can attain proper cell-to-cell communication, and why. Several studies cited conclude that the addition of glyconutrients to the diet allowed folks with all kinds of immune system diseases, ADHD, even cancer, benefitted greatly through supplementation. Elkins includes the best natural sources and her suggestions about supplementation. For anyone who wants to restore their health and understand how this "new class of missing nutrients" can help, this is a great tool.

The best book on Glyconutrients
This book is easily read in 30 minutes time. It answers all my questions on glyconutrients. In fourteen chapters, it tells me the advantages of glyconutrients to mend the damage to our bodies resulted from pollution of chemicals and viruses. The eight saccharides - glucose, galactose, fucose, mannose, xylose, N-acetylneuraminic acid, N-acetyglucosamine and N-acetylgalactosamine are miracle ingredients to good health. The book also provides references of published articles on the goodness of glyconutrients, which makes reading more interesting.

Repetitious, lots of errors in what she calls facts, not on topic and no real conclusions!
I am such a happy reader and just happy to have any new tid bit of information that I am rarely disappointed with the books that I read. This book was one of my rare disappointments.

I feel as though I learned little.

It was extremely unorganized. For example, in one place, she has a list of one type of thing followed, seemingly randomly, with an explanation of some other issue/topic. The headings were not at all parallel one to the next or consistent. And there was a huge disconnect between WHAT these sugars were and WHERE they can be found. It is so unorganized that after careful reading, I am still not sure of where to get mannose, for example, if I felt that I needed that. A pill? A powder? Food? Medicinal mushroom? I don't know what the PRIMARY use if of mannose, or any of the other sugars. And it was so unorganized that I often could not figure out whether she was talking about a sugar or a type/category of sugar or a source of that sugar. Her referencing of these things was not at all consistent in a way to be sure.

There are many places where what she put out as fact was simply wrong/untrue. This was particularly true in the first half of the book which had almost nothing to do with "sugars" but was about health maintenance in general. She is an extremely simplistic thinker relative to health matters and appears to get some of her health paradigms from the unreferenced mainstream FDA propaganda about health (ie the food pyramid type of thinking). The errors were many and the simplistic view of things was significant. For example, for her, meat=bad, and that's that. It is obvious to her that we are not intended to eat meat - ever. It would have been far more valuable to not include any general primer on health maintenance if she was only able to do one simplistic to the point of so often being wrong.

And is it repetitious! This is related to its being unorganized. If it were organized, then when something was said once, it would be understood because the whole of the full organized context was there. Instead, she talks of mannose, for example, over and over again and I still don't know how I might use it....where to find it, in what form, how much, in what foods, etc. What was told in 187 pages could have been told far better in 15.

Normally, I am interested in the quality of the book (writing and facts of) and do not require credentials. It was only after I was so surprised at how poor the quality of this book was that I looked at her credentials. She has no EARNED degree, rather an honorary degree of a Master Herbalist. Ideally, school assignments require us to raise to an academic rigor which is not the central point in some other areas of life. Clearly, she has not learned how to be rigorously organized or to make a firm point or to clearly guide someone to a solution. Her conclusion at the end of the book is for me to eat "a variety of plants, herbs, flowers, gums, fungi and molds."

I did like the various clear phrasings in the book, the analogies and the definitions attached to the technical terms. Her writing style is clear within one sentence but is not organized throughout the book and she is missing functional actions and conclusions which might be useful for the reader.

Rather than get this book, just google the 8 sugars:
* Glucose (don't really need to google this!)
* Galactose
* Fucose
* Mannose
* Xylose
* N-acetylneuraminic acid.
* N-acetylglucosamine
* N-acetylgalactosamine

And google medicinal mushrooms! Good luck!