GI Diet: Over 100 Low Glycemic-Index Recipes for Healthy Weight Loss
Author: Antony Worrall Thompson
Americans are gluttons for diet fads. The trouble is, trendy diets--no matter how effective in helping you lose weight--usually fail when it comes to keeping the weight off. And most impose so many restrictions that they make eating a grim duty.
The G.I. Diet Cookbook pursues a much more enjoyable strategy. Its 100-plus recipes, created by British food celebrity Antony Worrall Thompson, emphasize satisfaction, not deprivation. The glycemic index focuses on the benefits of low-G.I. foods from every category, including carbohydrates. Because they're slow to digest, low-G.I. foods make you feel less hungry, allowing you to shed pounds effortlessly. And because the book's dishes are so varied and delicious, maintaining weight loss is easier than ever before.
The G.I. diet is rooted in sound nutritional principles that have long been used by diabetics to control their weight and blood sugar. But Thompson's culinary ingenuity--and his devotion to preparing food that's as tasty as it is healthy--has transformed this formerly "medical" diet into one that everyone will find irresistible.
Library Journal
Noted British chef Thompson, along with Mabel Blades and Jane Suthering, has produced a visually stunning cookbook. While there are approximately 100 recipes presented-a relatively small amount-the full range of culinary options is here, and all focus on the low glycemic index. In the solid introduction to the glycemic-index diet, readers learn about its emphasis on healthy and unhealthy carbohydrates. Recipe sections include breakfast, soups, salads, appetizers/sandwiches, vegetables, fish, meat, and even desserts. Beautiful illustrations accompany about one-third of the recipes; each recipe has a nutritional breakdown, including calories per serving, total fat, saturated fat, sodium, and carbohydrates. The inclusion of a breakdown on fiber would have made the recipes more attractive to other health-conscious readers, but that is a small drawback. Whether it's the chicken, chile, and corn soup with its Mexican flair or the comfort of the rice pudding, just about everyone will find something to love in this eclectic gathering. Recommended for all cookbook collections.-Deborah Lee, Mississippi State Univ. Libs., Starkville Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Book about: A Modern Herbal or Complete Idiots Guide to Cooking for Guys
Total Breast Health
Author: Robin Keunek
The latest studies reveal vitamins and other nutrients that prevent breast cancer work best when they come directly from the foods you eat. Now Robin Keuneke has created a guide and cookbook focused on foods that prevent breast cancer and help in recovery. Up-to-date and comprehensive, this long-awaited book brings women strong protection against a disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. Here at last are revolutionary findings about the role fats play in women's health, clear do's and don'ts for food selection and preparation, and the facts you need to encourage breast health through diet and lifestyle choices.
Publishers Weekly
According to Keuneke, food editor of Total Health magazine, the key to healthy breasts is found in what she calls "superfoods," drawn from three culinary traditions: flax seed and oil from northern Europe, soy foods from Japan and extra virgin olive oil from the Mediterranean. Keuneke, neither a scientist nor a physician, devotes an entire chapter to an interview with nutritionist Udo Erasmus (Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill) who urges consumption of unheated oils rich in omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. To protect against breast cancer and to aid recovery from it, she also recommends organically grown antioxidant-rich vegetables to promote a favorable hormonal balance, herbal teas to enhance the immune and lymphatic systems, special baths protective against mammography radiation, and chemical-reducing water filters for the kitchen and bath. Recipes appear throughout the text as well as in a special section featuring "breast-protective power foods," such as miso, tempeh, tofu and sea vegetables. Keuneke's approach, backed by Dr. Lendon Smith's foreword, is directed toward women who are willing to make the serious commitment to a broad life-style change. (June) (PW best book of 1998)
Library Journal
Keuneke, the food editor of Total Health magazine, has written a book advocating a nutritional plan for the prevention and healing of breast cancer. Her plan includes organic vegetables, soy, and "good oils" to provide necessary fatty acids. She discusses many nutrition topics lately in the news, such as Olestra and transfatty acids, and tells readers which advice is based on medical studies and which is her own opinion. One chapter, an interview with Udo Erasmus, author of Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill (Alive Books, 1993), seems like an advertisement for his health food products. Though recipes make up a quarter of the book, many people will have problems locating the health food-store ingredients used in them. Of interest to patrons looking for alternative health solutions; for larger health collections.Elizabeth A. Williams, HAM-Texas Medical Ctr. Lib., Houston
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction: Creating Breast Health | ||
| Ch. 1 | The Effects of Fats and Oils on Breast Cancer | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | An Interview with Udo Erasmus, Author of Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill: The Importance of Fats to Women's Health | 24 |
| Ch. 3 | The New Millennium: Challenging the Myth of the Low-Fat Diet | 57 |
| Ch. 4 | The Importance of Organic Food | 62 |
| Ch. 5 | Raw Foods and Juices Provide Protective Enzymes | 66 |
| Ch. 6 | Flaxseed and Flaxseed Oil: Nature's Superfoods for Breast Health | 71 |
| Ch. 7 | Soybeans Protect Against Breast Cancer | 77 |
| Ch. 8 | Nutrient-Dense Green Vegetables: Protective and Cleansing | 88 |
| Ch. 9 | The Hidden Power of Plant Foods | 92 |
| Ch. 10 | Herbs, Spices, and Mushrooms: Potent Enhancers of Flavor and Health | 110 |
| Ch. 11 | Food, Hormones, and Breast Cancer: What's the Connection? | 119 |
| Ch. 12 | Preventing Carbohydrate Overload: A New Equation for Health | 155 |
| Ch. 13 | Rejuvenating Your Immune and Lymphatic Systems: What You Can Do Now | 169 |
| Ch. 14 | The French Mediterranean Diet: Natural Food at Its Best | 178 |
| Ch. 15 | Alcohol, Coffee, and Sugar | 202 |
| Ch. 16 | Power Teas | 208 |
| Ch. 17 | Mammography: Foods and Supplements That Offer Protection | 213 |
| Ch. 18 | Secrets of a Healthy Kitchen | 221 |
| Ch. 19 | Summary | 243 |
| Recipes | 249 | |
| Ch. 20 | Personal Care Guide | 344 |
| Resource Guide | 368 | |
| References | 381 | |
| Index | 407 | |
| Metric Conversion Table | 417 | |
| About the Author | 419 |
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