Product Description

All you need to know about the glycaemic index for better health and weight loss. Included are easy-to-read tables: an A to Z food listing, a comprehensive listing by food categories, and an at-a-glance table sorted according to low, intermediate and high GI values. Each entry in every table also gives serving size, net carbohydrate per serving, and the glycaemic load, which is clearly explained. An essential addition to the hugely popular and bestselling Glucose Revolution series, this invaluable book is a one-stop GI reference.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #354091 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
'Forget Sugar Busters. Forget The Zone. Read this book.' -- Jean Carper, bestselling author of Food: Your Mir 'Here, at last, is a book that explains what we know about the glycemic index and its importance in designing a diet for optimum health. Carbohydrates are not all bad. Read the good news about pasta and even -- believe it or not -- sugar!' -- Andrew Weil, MD, bestselling author of Spontaneous 'A groundbreaking guide to the glycaemic index' -- Pride

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'A groundbreaking guide to the glycaemic index'

About the Author
Professor 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.

Customer Reviews

Why is this book published over here?
Having read The Low GI Guide to Managing PCOS by the same author, I bought this book as I thought it would give me the GI values for a lot of different foods. It did just that, but sadly, I live in England and the GI values relate to food products available in the USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.Many of these are not available here and if they are, the values can differ due to the different ingrediants used!

Tha author states that the GI values of foods not available in Britian have been left in the book as they can be used as an approximate guide for a similiar brand, but quite frankly, what is the point in that? If I wanted to play a guessing game, I wouldn't have taken the time and trouble to purchase the book.

Broken Promises
This book promises so much and simply doesn't deliver. Quite apart from containing data on many foodstuffs not available in the UK (it is an Australian book after all and most of the research into the GI diet has been done over there), it's far from complete, focuses way too much on processed foods, and it's not easy to find the food you're looking for.

The book usefully includes "an A to Z list of individual foods for easy reference" in addition to "a comprehensive list of foods and food categories for in-depth knowledge". A nice idea, except that the alphabetical section is itself subdivided into several categories, thus splitting this section into numerous A to Z subsections. To find a food in this section you must therefore first figure out which subsection it's in and that's not so obvious when, for instance, (Walker's Scotland) Highland Oatcakes are listed under "Cookies" rather than Crackers.

Average figures are sometimes given for similar, grouped products, but in the first one of these I saw the figures didn't add up.

Sloppy English/Australian makes this book even less readable. A "serve" can be a noun when, for example, it refers to tennis, but here "serve" is readily interchanged with "serving" to refer to a quantity of food. And perhaps terms such as "middy" (a medium sized glass of beer) are a little too colloquial for an international audience.

Someone's obviously put a lot of work into collating the data for this book, but it has the strong flavour of a rushed job, published to fill a gap in the market without much care being taken over content or usability. A nice little money earner I'm sure, but I hope someone out there writes a far better version sometime soon. If they do and they use colour on the pages to help identify GI values, that'll be even better.