The Low GI Handbook: The New Glucose Revolution Guide to the Long-Term Health Benefits of Low GI Eating
Posted by Eky Dakka and is filed under Healthy Diet Thursday, 29 July 2010 08:16
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If you want to lose weight; manage your diabetes; and improve your blood glucose levels, cardiovascular health, and sense of well-being, this is the book for you.
Amazon.com Review
Forget the high-carb, low-carb debate. The glycemic index (GI)–a measure of carbohydrate quality based on how quickly a food raises blood-glucose (blood sugar) levels–is the dietary key to health, say the authors. Contrary to other diets that treat carbohydrates as all alike, The New Glucose Revolution divides carbos according to their GI into two categories. One is high GI (less desirable): carbohydrates that break down quickly during digestion, leading to fast and high blood-glucose response. Examples are baked potatoes, sports bars, instant rice, corn flakes cereal, and baguettes. The other is low GI (more desirable): carbohydrates that break down slowly during digestion, leading to a gradual glucose release. Examples here are pasta, whole grains, fruit, legumes, and yams.
A low-GI diet is especially recommended for people with diabetes, abdominal overweight, and Syndrome X, say the authors, who have strong medical, nutritional-science, and diabetes education credentials. They explain the importance of understanding GI values, how GI is determined, health applications, and how to choose low-GI foods and balance the overall GI load. They give cooking tips, menu ideas, and 47 recipes. A 68-page table gives the GI values of many foods, including brand names. The New Glucose Revolution is recommended for health-conscious readers who want to understand the glycemic index and how to incorporate it into their diet. –Joan Price
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Suger is bad for you. That’s the book. Save your money.
Rating: 1 / 5
Confusing and dissappointing. I couldn’t make heads or tails of this. The structure of the book dosen’t make sense. Too bad.
Rating: 2 / 5
If it ignores biochemical individuality and pretends that all foods have the same effects on all bodies, the book is worthless and very dangerous nutritionally. It will certainly help some, though that is only because around 50% of people in the world would apply to its recommendations. For instance, foods can have different effects in different bodies.
If you want to know more about your body type before you begin a nutritional program, I suggest the following books instead. Most of the information presently known is from the sympathetic system side and very little is known about the autonomic, though these recommendations can protect you from such false suggestions of a ‘common good program’ for all people. Know thyself, before you make a nutritional plan. With the following books you can:
Day, Phillip. 2001. Health Wars. Kent, England: Credence Publications.
Wiley, Rudolf A, Ph.D. 1989. Biobalance: The Acid/Alkaline Solution to the Food-Mood-Health Puzzle. M.D. Foreword by Howard E. Hagglund. Hurricane, Utah: Essential Science Publications.
Kristall, Harold J, D. D. S, and James M Haig, N.C. 2002. The Nutrition Solution: A Guide to Your Metabolic Type. M.D. Foreword by John R. Lee. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books.
Kliment, Felicia Drury. 2002. The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet: An Innovative Program for Ridding Your Body of Acidic Wastes. Chicago, Illinois: Contemporary Books.
Rating: 1 / 5
What the heck does that have to do with what the “Glucose Revolution” is about? What a joke!
I found the book to be a good repreive from the Atkins pundits. Atkins seems to link all carbs into two major categories with very little real evidence as to how it effects the insulin levels. Not all carbs are equal and can’t be lumped into two simple divisions. Raw carrots do not equal cooked. “….Revolution” has some real answers.
I know people that have lost “10 pounds a week” on Atkins plan without stepping back and examining what that “weight” actually is. Let’s do the math. sparing all the physiological details: 3500 calories per pound of body fat times 10lbs, equals about six days of running at ten hours each! (35,000/10 calories per minute/60 = 58 hours of running) Where does the weight come from? Not likely to be fat lose with Atkins plan!
Better to get advice from sources that have the numbers from sound science.
Rating: 4 / 5
I agree with the other reviewer who talks about contradictions. Nourishing traditions was a much better book on nutrition.
Rating: 2 / 5