The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide To Diabetes

A revised, updated edition of the best-selling guide to controlling diabetes continues to help sufferers of this disease manage their lives with low glycemic foods. Original.

Describes the negative effects of carbohydrates on blood sugar; emphasizes the importance of maintaining blood glucose control; and includes tables of glycemic-index values for nearly eight hundred foods.

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.

Explains how to use glycemic index values in making daily food decisions, and provides the GI value, glycemic load, carbohydrate, fiber and fat content for 100 foods with the lowest GI values.

Widely recognized as the most significant dietary finding of the last 25 years, the glycemic index (GI) is revolutionizing the way people manage diabetes. Now, from the authors of the New York Times bestseller The New Glucose Revolution — an authoritative guide to managing diabetes in young people — The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Childhood Diabetes explains how the GI can be used to specifically benefit children with diabetes in simple and direct language. Written by the world’s leading authorities on the GI, the book directly addresses the parents of children with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and answers their most common diet concerns. It covers all of the basic information about the GI and blood sugar levels, dispels all of the diabetes food myths, and provides age-specific advice for children of all ages—from babies to teenagers. Complete with a table containing the GI, glycemic load, and carbohydrate values of more than 800 foods and drinks, this useful guide is a vital tool for every parent with a diabetic child.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Improve all areas of your health—your sleep, cravings, mood, energy, skin, weight—and even slow down aging with easy, science-based hacks to manage your blood sugar while still eating the foods you love. Glucose, or blood sugar, is a tiny molecule in our body that has a huge impact on our health. It enters our bloodstream through the starchy or sweet foods we eat. Ninety percent of us suffer from too much glucose in our system—and most of us don't know it. The symptoms? Cravings, fatigue, infertility, hormonal issues, acne, wrinkles… And over time, the development of conditions like type 2 diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome, cancer, dementia, and heart disease. Drawing on cutting-edge science and her own pioneering research, biochemist Jessie Inchauspé offers ten simple, surprising hacks to help you balance your glucose levels and reverse your symptoms—without going on a diet or giving up the foods you love. For example: * How eating foods in the right order will make you lose weight effortlessly * What secret ingredient will allow you to eat dessert and still go into fat-burning mode * What small change to your breakfast will unlock energy and cut your cravings Both entertaining, informative, and packed with the latest scientific data, this book presents a new way to think about better health. Glucose Revolution is chock-full of tips that can drastically and immediately improve your life, whatever your dietary preferences.

Based on the most up-to-date information about carbohydrates, this guide to the glycemic index and diabetes helps Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics make informed choices about their diets. Other authors include Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D., Thomas Wolever, M.D., and Stephen Colagiuri, M.D. Includes tables and charts.

Available for the first time is a pocket guide devoted exclusively to comprehensive tables of glycemic-index values in an easy-to-read format.