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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction to the New Edition | |
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| The Science | |
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| The Experience | |
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| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
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| Sugar Sensitivity | |
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| Naming the Problem | |
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| "Don't Tell, Don't Feel, Don't Share" | |
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| Turning to Sugar for Solace | |
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| Lessons from the "Drunks" | |
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| Discovering Food as Pharmacy | |
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| Finding Out Why It Worked | |
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| Are You Sugar Sensitive? | |
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| Diagnosing Sugar Sensitivity | |
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| Can You Be Addicted to Sugar? | |
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| It's Not Your Fault | |
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| The Level of Sugar in Your Blood | |
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| Brain Chemicals: Serotonin | |
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| Brain Chemicals: Beta-endorphin | |
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| A Delicate Balance | |
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| The Ups and Downs of Blood Sugar | |
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| How Normal Blood Sugar Works | |
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| The Impact of Sugar Sensitivity | |
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| Adrenal Fatigue | |
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| Brain Chemistry 101 | |
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| Neurotransmitters: Messengers of the Brain | |
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| Cleaning Up and Regulating the System | |
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| Downregulation | |
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| Upregulation | |
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| Withdrawal | |
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| Serotonin | |
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| How Antidepressants Work | |
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| Beta-endorphin | |
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| Sugar and the Beta-endorphin Response | |
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| Sugar and Isolation Distress | |
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| Sugar and Learned Helplessness | |
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| Why Not Sugar? | |
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| Cravings and Relapse | |
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| The Sugar-Sensitive Dilemma | |
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| Balance Once Again | |
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| The First Step: Getting Started | |
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| Don't Use the D-Word | |
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| Take It One Step at a Time | |
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| The Seven Steps to Feeling Great | |
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| Eat Breakfast with Protein Every Day | |
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| Have the Right Amount of Protein | |
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| Eat Within an Hour of Waking Up | |
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| Have a Complex Carb with Your Meal | |
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| Do It Every Day | |
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| The Second Step: Keeping a Food Journal | |
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| Starting Your First Food Journal | |
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| What to Do If You Don't Know How You Feel | |
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| Learning to Read Your Body | |
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| The Third Step: Three Meals a Day | |
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| Adequate Protein at Each Meal | |
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| Foods with Protein | |
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| A Protein That Raises Serotonin | |
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| What About Cholesterol? | |
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| Just Do Three Things | |
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| The Fourth Step: Increasing Your Serotonin Naturally | |
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| Vitamins to Ready You for Detox | |
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| Finally the Potato | |
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| Giving Tryptophan a Helping Hand | |
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| The Fifth Step: Going from White to Brown | |
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| The Carbohydrate Continuum | |
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| Alcohol | |
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| Simple Sugars | |
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| "White Things" | |
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| "Brown Things" | |
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| "Green Things" | |
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| More About Fruit | |
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| Shifting Your Place on the Continuum | |
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| The Sixth Step: Dealing with Sugars | |
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| Reducing or Eliminating Sugars | |
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| On the Trail of Secret Sugars | |
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| Take It Easy | |
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| The Next Step | |
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| Going Off Sugars | |
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| Planning Your Sugar Detox | |
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| Doing It | |
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| The Seventh Step: Coming Alive | |
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| Living Your Radiant Recovery | |
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| Activities to Support Your Radiant Recovery | |
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| Safeguarding Your Progress | |
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| Stopping the Journal | |
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| Holding It | |
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| Continue Your Food Journal No Matter What | |
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| Maintain Your Blood Sugar Level | |
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| Enhance Your Serotonin Level | |
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| Enhance Your Beta-endorphin Level | |
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| Enhance Your Dopamine Level | |
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| Discerning Food Issues from Life Issues | |
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| There's No Such Thing as Perfection | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Detoxification from Alcohol | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Resources | |
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| Website | |
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| Newsletter | |
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| George's Shake | |
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| Motivational Tools | |
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| Books | |
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| Audio | |
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| Support Groups | |
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| Weight Loss | |
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| Seminars | |
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| Online Classes | |
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| Consulting with Kathleen | |
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| Radiant Recovery Store | |
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| Index | |