The authors of the 'Glucose Revolution' series present an overview of the glycaemic index and the positive impact it can have on your health. There is a guide to choosing low GI foods - which produce minimal fluctuation in blood sugar levels. They cover weight loss and how, on a low GI diet, it becomes healthy and sustainable.
100 Delicious Low GI Recipes to Help You Lose Weight and Keep it Off
Science has proven that low GI, slowly digested carbohydrates, are key to healthy and sustained weight loss. THE LOW GI COOKBOOK brings you over 70 tempting recipes based on these established principles. The book covers everything from sustaining breakfasts and brunches, substantial but healthy dinner dishes, to quick salads and sweet treats, and even includes recipes from celebrity chefs. Packed with beautiful photographs, handy tips, and with a complete breakdown of fat, protein and carb content, calorie values and GI values for every recipe, THE LOW GI COOKBOOK is your blueprint for healthy low GI eating for life.
Forget Atkins. Low-GI eating has now become established as the biggest and healthiest new diet trend. From the original team who brought us THE NEW GLUCOSE REVOLUTION, here is a simple twelve-week diet action plan which shows you exactly how to switch to a low GI lifestyle. The science behind this series has turned around the way people view dieting and carbohydrates. This book presents the principles of low-GI eating in an easy-to-understand diet. There are delicious recipes and meal plans to help you choose the best foods, plus exercise suggestions and regular progress checks to inspire and reward. The six months ahead are often the make-or-break months for weight loss, so the authors look in detail at this time and provide encouraging targets and case studies. Simple and lasting, this is the perfect diet book for those wishing to adopt - and stick to - the low-GI lifestyle.
The glycemic index--a system of ranking foods according to how fast they affect blood sugar levels--started out as a dietary tool for people with diabetes. Foods with the highest GI values cause a fast, high-blood-sugar response; foods with the lowest GI values break down slowly, releasing glucose into the bloodstream gradually. Now the GI concept has spread as a way to evaluate carbohydrates for people who are not diabetic. High-GI carbs (to be avoided) include processed breads, most cold cereals, potatoes, short-grain white rice, and some fruits. Low-GI carbs (fine to eat) include whole grains, brown rice, pastas, legumes, sweet potatoes, oats, and some fruits. The book also includes discussions of good/bad fats, the Mediterranean diet, and why high-protein diets don't work long-term. The Glucose Revolution Life Plan emphasizes how to eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, fish, and lean meats for a satisfying, low-GI diet. After you understand the concepts, four different seven-day menus (including one for "busybodies") help you get started. Then 50 recipes follow, with dishes as diverse as Pepper, Corn, and Barley Patties; Apricot and Muesli Muffins; Vegetable and Sesame Noodle Stir-Fry; Tuna-Veggie Toss; Thai Chicken Curry; and Summer Pudding. The authors also coauthored The Glucose The Authoritative Guide to the Glycemic Index and other books in the Glucose Revolution series. --Joan Price
The Authoritative Guide to the Glycemic Index--the Dietary Solution for Lifelong Health
In 1999 The Glucose Revolution provided the most authoritative and comprehensive information ever published about the glycemic index—widely recognized as the most significant dietary finding of the last twenty-five years. It instantly became a national bestseller, garnered praise from major health and medical figures worldwide, and has sold more than half a million copies in ten countries, including 300,000 in North America alone. In the past three years, the results of clinical and observational studies, including the Harvard Nurses Health Study, have continued to affirm the dietary benefits of low-glycemic foods and to demonstrate the importance of maintaining blood glucose control for lifelong health. Now, with this completely revised and updated second edition, The New Glucose Revolution will be necessary reading for an ever-expanding audience—people managing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and everyone seeking to make dietary choices for lifelong health. Completely new to this edition is coverage of the glycemic load, a calculation of the carbohydrate content in a food multiplied by its glycemic index. Also included are extensively expanded tables of glycemic-index values for nearly 800 foods—more than double the number of foods covered in the previous edition—along with their glycemic load values.
The Authoritative Guide to the Glycemic Index - the Dietary Solution for Lifelong Health
Vous souffrez de surpoids, de diabète, de maladies cardiovasculaires ou vous souhaitez tout simplement augmenter votre espérance de vie ? Ce guide est fait pour vous ! Grâce à lui, apprendra à préserver son capital santé tout en goûtant au plaisir d'un repas savoureux est aujourd'hui possible... Issu des résultats des études scientifiques les plus récentes et les plus pointues, cet ouvrage vous propose d'organiser votre alimentation en fonction de l'index glycémique qui permet de mesure la qualité des glucides ingérés, et donc de vous maintenir en bonne santé. Découvrez au quotidien comment contrôler votre poids, maîtriser votre appétit et brûler les graisses en fonction des pathologies et des besoins de chacun (femmes enceintes, enfants, sportif personnes souffrant d'hypoglycémie...). De nombreux conseils et recommandations simples et facile à suivre vous aideront à sélectionner les aliments qui vous conviennent le mieux et à vous sentir bien dans votre corps Des recettes gourmandes et diététiques et des tableaux indiquant pour chaque aliment l'index glycémique, la teneur en glucides la charge glycémique vous permettront d'atteindre rapidement vos objectifs.
