Complete Low Gi Diet Handbook

Description

The Low GI Diet Handbook is a one-stop resource for all those who want to switch to the healthy low-GI lifestyle. This simple-to-follow guide includes: brand-new coverage of the glycemic load and its significance and daily application; fifty all-new delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes with complete nutritional information; comprehensive, up-to-date tables of glycemic index values for almost 800 individual foods and their glycemic load values; clever tips on low GI shopping and cooking; an indispensable seven-day meal plan; scientifically proven ways to lose weight and keep it off; how to make easy substitutions from high to low GI foods; over 300 quick meal, snack and treat suggestions; tips for becoming more active. Simple and comprehensive, this is all you need to change your health for the better - today.

Author description

Dr Jennie Brand-Miller is a world authority on the glycaemic index of foods and Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Sydney. Kaye Foster-Powell is an expert dietician who consults on all aspects of GI. Philippa Sandall has been working in the areas of health and nutrition for over 20 years, and involved with the pioneers of the low GI eating revolution since 1996.