Synopses & Reviews
Diet trends come and go, but eating according to the glycemic index (to avoid blood sugar spikes) is a consistent, scientifically proven way to manage your health through your eating habits.
The Low GI Shoppers Guide to GIValues 2015 makes it easier than ever! This go-to reference has everything you need to know to use the glycemic index, whether you are trying to lose weight or manage a chronic condition like diabetes. The GI tablescomprehensive lists of foods and their glycemic index valuesare the key to unlocking the health benefits of a low GI diet. The 2015 edition of the Shoppers Guide also offers: nutritional data for more than 1,200 popular foods; definitive at-a-glance tables arranged by food category; tips for maintaining a gluten-free, low GI diet; facts about sugar and sweeteners; and shopping lists and tips for everyday meals and dining out.
Synopsis
Every year, their
Shopper’s Guide helps thousands of readers to achieve and maintain health and wellness by providing an easy guide to eating according to the glycemic index. The key to this go-to reference is the GI tables--comprehensive lists of foods and their glycemic index values—which allow readers to unlock the remarkable health benefits of a low GI diet.
About the Author
Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D., one of the world’s leading authorities on carbohydrates and the glycemic index, has championed the GI approach to nutrition for more than twenty-five years. Professor of nutrition at the University of Sydney and the president of the Nutrition Society of Australia, Dr. Brand-Miller was recently awarded Australia’s prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Award for her commitment to advancing science and technology. She is one of the world’s most in-demand speakers on the GI, and her laboratory at the University of Sydney is the world’s foremost GI-testing center. Professor Brand-Miller is coauthor of the books in the internationally bestselling
New Glucose Revolution series, which has more than 3.5 million copies in print worldwide.
Kaye Foster-Powell, M. Nutr. & Diet., an accredited dietitian-nutritionist with extensive experience in diabetes management, is the coauthor, with Dr. Brand-Miller and Fiona Atknison, of the author of the authoritative tables of GI and glycemic load values published in Diabetes Care. Foster-Powell is also coauthor with Brand-Miller of the more than fifteen books in the internationally bestselling New Glucose Revolution series..
Fiona Atkinson is a research dietician and the manager of the University of Sydney’s Glycemic Index research Service (SUGiRS). Along with Jennie Brand-Miller and Kaye Foster-Powell, she is the author of the authoritative tables of GI and glycemic load values published in Diabetes Care. She is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Sydney focusing on the glycemic index.
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