Synopses & Reviews
The New Glucose Revolution for Diabetes is the first comprehensive guide to using the glycemic index to control type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and more. The book features the latest, most accurate information with new findings by the authors. It includes GI-based recipes and menus for type 1, type 2, prediabetes, gestational diabetes, and juvenile diabetes, as well as related conditions like obesity and celiac disease, plus practical dietary guidance on sugar, sweeteners, alcohol, snacking, and eating out.
Synopsis
- Major addition to NY Times best-selling series: The New Glucose Diabetes Revolution is an important addition to the best-selling New Glucose Revolution series, which has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. An unprecedented, comprehensive guide to the utility of the glycemic index in the dietary management of diabetes, this should become an instant classic on the shelf.
- A revolution more than twenty-five years in the making: Since the initial development of the glycemic index in 1980, the authors' and others' medical research has steadily confirmed how making low-GI food choices is a vital dietary tool in managing diabetes. This is in direct opposition to using a dietary system of carbohydrate exchanges to control diabetes, which for years had been advocated by medical organizations. Wholly unique among diabetes books, The New Glucose Diabetes Revolution presents, for the first time, the authoritative guide to using the GI to manage diabetes conditions.
- Glycemic index widely and increasingly endorsed for people with diabetes: The GI is endorsed in clinical dictary guidelines by the Joslin Diabetes Center and by many prominent international diabetes organizations. In its clinical practice recommendations for 2006, the American Diabetes Association noted the benefit of the glycemic index for the first time.
- A scientifically proven treatment road map: The book features the latest, most accurate information with new findings by the authors. Includes GI-based recipes and menus for type 1, type 2, prediabetes, gestational diabetes, and juvenile diabetes, as well as related conditions like obesity and celiac disease, plus practical dietary guidance on sugar, sweeteners, alcohol, snacking, and eating out.
About the Author
Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D., one of the worlds 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 Australias prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Award in 2004 for her commitment to advancing science and technology, Brand-Miller is one of the worlds most in-demand speakers on the GI and her laboratory at the University of Sydney is the worlds foremost GI-testing center.
Kaye Foster-Powell, M. Nutr and 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 diabetes, and is coauthor of several books in the Glucose Revolution series.
Alan Barclay is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and is completing a PhD at the University of Sydney, researching the association between glycemic carbohydrate and the risk of developing chronic lifestyle-related diseases like Type 2 diabetes.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Diabetes Australias Health Professional magazine, Diabetes Management Journal, and was a founding Director of Glycemic Index Ltd, the company behind Australias Glycemic Index Symbol Program, which provides information about the glycemic index on food labels