The Family Gi Diet - Softcover

Gallop, Rick; Gallop, Dr Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753510340 ISBN 13: 9780753510346

Publisher: Virgin Books, 2006

Synopsis

The latest in Rick Gallop's market leading Gi Diet series, The Family Gi Diet offers individualized weight-loss and healthy eating strategies for every member of the family - whether to help lose weightor simply eat healthy and keep in good shape.
No two people have the same body chemistry, nutritional needs and eating habits, so how do you prepare a healthy meal to suit every member of the family? How do you help your overweight child? What can you do about bad eating habits? What if you're pregnant? Does BMI apply to older people?

For The Family Gi Diet Rick has teamed up with his wife, Dr Ruth Gallop, to address all of these
questions and more. With sound advice, practical tips, and fifty new green-light recipes, you'll be well on your way to improving the health of all your loved ones.

About this title

About the Author

Rick Gallop, graduate of Oxford University and former president and CEO of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, has teamed up with his wife, Dr Ruth Gallop, internationally acclaimed expert on women's psychological health, to bring you a family perspective, lookig at a diet from a male, female and parental outlook. Whether to help lose weight or simply keep in good shape, The Family Gi Diet provides maximum nutritional benefit and a healthy way for all the family to eat.

From the Inside Flap

The Gi Diet, Rick Gallop s acclaimed traffic-light system for choosing the right foods to eat based on the Glycemic Index, has proved to be the easy and healthy way to permanent weight loss for hundreds of thousands of people. Now, following the phenomenal success of both The Gi Diet and Living the Gi Diet, The Family Gi Diet offers individualised weight-loss strategies for every member of the family. No two people have the same body chemistry, nutritional needs and eating habits, so how do you prepare a healthy meal to suit everyone, from the very old to the very young, from expectant mothers to hungry husbands? As well as fifty new green-light recipes, The Family Gi Diet answers all your questions, covering: what to eat and avoid if you re pregnant, nursing or menopausal; healthy eating strategies for tots to teens, whether overweight or not; motivating the reluctant spouse/partner; and staying healthy and active in our senior years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753510340
• ISBN 13: 9780753510346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272