Product Description

The Complete Guide to GI Values for More than a Thousand Popular Foods--Newly Revised and Updated for 2008.

Whether you're looking to lose weight, help manage conditions like diabetes or hypertension, or simply eat for lifelong good health, adopting a low-GI diet is the scientifically proven way to reach your goal. This 2008 guide, updated with more than 500 new foods, makes it easier than ever to select smart, low-GI choices for all your meals. Featured are:

* The GI value for over 1,000 popular foods and prepared meals--twice as many as 2007
* All-new expanded nutrient data--including serving size, calories, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, fiber, and sodium per serving of each food
* Advice on shopping and eating out to guide your daily food choices
* Essential advice for incorporating low-GI foods into a gluten-free diet

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #146035 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D., one of the world's foremost authorities on the glycemic index, and Kaye Foster-Powell, M. Nutr. & Diet., an accredited dietitian-nutritionist with extensive experience in diabetes management, are coauthors of the New York Times best-selling New Glucose Revolution series.

Customer Reviews

Glucose guide
This was an interesting book but the downside was the products you would find at a grocery store were Canadian products. Products in the USA do not have a GI listing.

not so great
I was disappointed with this book. Most of the name brand products they had on their list are only available in Canada. This was of very little use to me since I live in California.

A MUST READ FOR DIETERS
One of my problems with trying to maintain a healthy weight is continuing feeling of hunger. The concept of Glycemic Index (G.I.), i.e. how fast food is turned into blood sugar, which in turn causes the pancreas to put out a lot of insulin, which in turn causes extreme hunger,always made sense to me. The problem was, how do you know what is the G.I. of all the food around you. Well this book perfectly listed almost every food that you will be exposed to. Once I selected to only eat really low G.I. foods, my hunger left me right away and my weight started to come off.
The only reason I didn't rate the book a 5 star is something they did that they maybe thought would be helpful but got in the way. They classified all the foods like vegetables, nuts, meats, etc. then within that classification listed them alphabetically. Well that kept getting in my way because, not being a food expert, I couldn't always guess what was the food I was looking for classification. Many times, I thought they hadn't listed the food, but in actuality it I was looking in the wrong clarification. It would have been better if all the foods were simply listed alphabetically. I didn't care about its classification because that had no nutritional impact to me.