Ex-sugar addict Nicki Waterman, the face of GMTV fitness, describes how and why she beat her sugar habit - and how you can too. The Sugar Addict's Diet is a brand new nutrition plan that will help you lose weight and eliminate ailments by eliminating sugar entirely from your diet and increasing your levels of good fats to bust those cravings. Nicki Waterman's struggle with her own sugar addiction introduces this excellent and topical diet book. Refined sugar is the big baddie in our lives - food companies and marketing executives are making the 'cocaine of the food industry' enormously difficult to avoid. Hidden sugars are everywhere and Nicki helps you to negotiate your way around the pitfalls on supermarket shelves. * Discover if you are a sugar addict by checking your symptoms - are you overweight, lacking energy, suffering headaches, irritable.? * Learn how sugar contributes to major health issues, including obesity, diabetes, cancer, depression, candida, acne and a host of other problems. * Understand the physical and emotional aspects of your addiction and what the real cost to your well being is.

* Cope with 'sugar dealers' - people and situations that could set you on the wrong track. * Lose weight and stop cravings by increasing your intake of the right fats - follow Nicki and Martha's easy-to follow 14 day plan with delicious recipes. * Win the sugar war with your kids by helping them choose healthier options - and defeat the marketing industry's ever-present and invasive temptations. Gold title * Nicki is the new health columnist in The Sun. With GMTV it makes her the highest-profile diet guru in the media. * Guaranteed major serial and TV coverage. Nicki's own story of how she recently beat her sugar addiction makes this book hugely feature-worthy * This book will be included in the New Year New You campaign which will commence on the 4th Jan with a 5 week TV sponsorship promotion with Discovery Health channel * An incredibly topical book with the average person eating their weight in sugar every year and type 2 diabetes and obesity in children on the rise: 18% of 15-year-olds are obese as are 10% 6-year-olds. There is a growing awareness for how sugar and other refined carbs have a serious impact on weight and health.

* Nicki Waterman's strand on GMTV - Inch Loss Island Junior - gripped the nation. It revealed how teens today were often existing almost entirely on coke and sweets from school vending machines. Competition: Sugar Busters by Leighton Stewart (Vermillion 1998). The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Programme by Kathleen Desmaisons (S&S 2002). Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton (Avery 1996).