Science has proven that low GI, slowly digested carbohydrates, are key to healthy and sustained weight loss. THE LOW GI COOKBOOK brings you over 70 tempting recipes based on these established principles. The book covers everything from sustaining breakfasts and brunches, substantial but healthy dinner dishes, to quick salads and sweet treats, and even includes recipes from celebrity chefs. Packed with beautiful photographs, handy tips, and with a complete breakdown of fat, protein and carb content, calorie values and GI values for every recipe, THE LOW GI COOKBOOK is your blueprint for healthy low GI eating for life.

A collection of recipes caters to both high-protein and low-glycemic-index dieters, covering all three meals as well as dessert, and highlights the use of minimally processed ingredients to reap the greatest nutritional benefits.

Cook these recipes up-and keep blood sugar down. With over 325 delicious and healthy recipes, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Glycemic Index Cookbook is an invaluable reference for choosing foods according to their GI-a system of classifying carbohydrate-based foods by how much they raise blood sugar. Diabetes, insulin resistance, heart disease, and obesity may be avoided by following the glycemic index. Practical and easy to use, this is the one cookbook anyone concerned with their blood sugar will want to have in the kitchen. • More than 325 recipes • Includes both the GI value and a GL (glycemic load) rating for each recipe • 18 million people in the U.S. have type 2 diabetes and the number is growing

Presents a collection of recipes designed to help maintain weight control whether losing or gaining weight for maximum health.

Ahead of its time, the hardback of this book (titled Fast, Fresh and Fabulous) was much more than a collection of recipes from Britain's most respected vegetarian author. It offered inspiring, mouth-watering dishes that also had a low GI rating. Now available in an updated paperback format, Rose shares the secrets of healthy vegetarian and low-GI living. She gives essential information on living as a healthy vegetarian or vegan, whether you want to lose weight, feed your baby or start eating well to look younger and live longer. Inspired in particular by Mediterranean and Far Eastern cuisine, she combines an abundance of organic vegetables with fresh herbs, exotic spices, beans and grains to produce simple, delicious, energizing dishes. Rose also gives ideas for menu-planning, whether it's for fast, afterwork meals, or celebratory dinner parties. Beautifully illustrated with over 50 stunning recipe shots, this cookbook will inspire and delight vegetarians, non-vegetarians, and those wanting to follow a low-GI diet.

This book is sure to be a welcome addition to diabetic kitchens, with over 100 beautifully presented recipes, each individually selected to achieve a healthy diet and be suitable for anyone suffering with diabetes. Eat Well Live Well with Diabetes is the next book in the new, contemporary and stylish special diet series from Murdoch Books. This book offers people who need to watch their blood glucose levels a complete book of delicious and innovative low-GI recipes. It features an approachable and informative introduction written by respected nutritionist, Karen Kingham. Other titles in the Eat Well Live Well series include: Eat Well Live Well with Gluten Intolerance Eat Well Live Well with High Fibre Eat Well Live Well with High Cholesterol

"The low GI (Glycemic Index) nutrition approach ... ranks foods based on how quickly they raise your blood-sugar levels ... low-GI foods satisfy your hunger, increase your energy levels, and eliminate your desire to eat more than you should."--Page 4 of cover.