Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-334) and indexes.
Review
"[This book] explains what we know about the glycemic index and its importance in designing a diet for optimum health." Andrew Weil, M.D.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
JENNIE BRAND-MILLER, PH.D., is Professor of Human Nutrition in the Human Nutrition Unit, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney, and President of the Nutrition Society of Australia. She has taught postgraduate students of nutrition and dietetics at the University of Sydney for over twenty-four years and currently leads a team of twelve research scientists, whose interests focus on all aspects of carbohydratediet and diabetes, the glycemic index of foods, insulin resistance, lactose intolerance, and oligosaccharides in infant nutrition. She has published sixteen books and 140 journal articles and is the co-author of all books in the Glucose Revolution series.
THOMAS M.S. WOLEVER, M.D., PH.D., is Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, and a member of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, St. Michaels Hospital, Toronto. Since 1980 his research has focused on the glycemic index of foods and the prevention of type 2 diabetes. The co-author of most titles in the Glucose Revolution series, he lives in Toronto, Canada.
KAYE FOSTER-POWELL, M. NUTR. & DIET., is an accredited practicing dietitian with extensive experience in diabetes management. She has conducted research into the glycemic index of foods and its practical applications over the last fifteen years. Currently she is a dietitian with Wentworth Area Diabetes Services in New South Wales and consults on all aspects of the glycemic index. She is the co-author of all books in the Glucose Revolution series.
STEPHEN COLAGIURI, M.D., is the Director of the Diabetes Centre and Head of the Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, New South Wales. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers to his name, many concerned with the importance of carbo-hydrate in the diet of people with diabetes, and the co-author of most books in the Glucose Revolution series.