The New Glucose Revolution: The Authoritative Guide to the Glycemic Index, the Dietary Solution for Lifelong Health - Softcover

Foster-Powell, Kaye M.; Wolever, Thomas M. S.; Colagiuri, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569245061 ISBN 13: 9781569245064

Publisher: Marlowe & Co, 2003

Synopsis

Completely revised, updated, and expanded to include the latest information, an essential guide describes the negative effects of carbohydrates on blood sugar; emphasizes the importance of maintaining blood glucose control; includes tables of glycemic-index values for nearly 800 foods; and much more. Original.

About this title

Review:

"The concept of the glycemic index has been distorted and bastardized by popular writers and diet gurus. 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." -- Andrew Weil

About the Author:

Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D., one of the world’s foremost authorities on carbohydrates and the glycemic index, has championed the GI approach to nutrition for more than 20 years. Professor of Nutrition at the University of Sydney and the President of the Nutrition Society of Australia, Brand-Miller manages a GI food-labeling program in Australia (www.gisymbol.com.au) with Diabetes Australia and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to ensure that claims about the GI are scientifically correct and applied only to nutritious foods. Winner of Australia’s prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Award in 2004 for her commitment to advancing science and technology, Brand-Miller is one of the world’s most in-demand speakers on the GI and her laboratory at the University of Sydney is the world’s foremost GI-testing center.

Thomas M.S. Wolever, MD is professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, and a member of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto. He is a graduate of Oxford University (BA, MA, MB, B.Ch, M.Sc, and DM) in the United Kingdom. He received his PhD at the University of Toronto. Since 1980 his research has focused on the glycemic index of foods and the prevention of type 2 diabetes. The coauthor of many books in the Glucose Revolution series, he lives in Toronto, Canada.

Kaye Foster-Powell, M. Nutr & Diet, an accredited dietitian-nutritionist with extensive experience in diabetes management, counsels hundreds of people a year on how to improve their health and well-being and reduce their risk of diabetic complications through a low-GI diet. She is the lead author of the authoritative tables of GI and glycemic load values published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. She is the coauthor of all books in the Glucose Revolution series.

Stephen Colagiuri, MD is the Director of the Diabetes Centre and Head of the Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, New South Wales. He graduated from the University of Sydney and received his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has a joint academic appointment at the University of New South Wales. He has more than 100 scientific papers to his name, many concerned with the importance of carbohydrates in the diet of people with diebetes, and is coauthor of many books in the Glucose Revolution series.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Marlowe & Co
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1569245061
• ISBN 13: 9781569245064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Brand-Miller Jennie, Brand Miller Janette