You only have to cruise the aisles of your local bookshop to find shelf upon shelf of diet books that promise staggering amount of weight loss, with minimal effort, and all achieved in the blink of an eye. What most of these ‘quick fix’ diet books don’t tell you is that a lot of the weight you’ll lose is water, sometimes you’ll miss out on valuable nutrients, and what you eat is so dull, boring, and bland that you’ll feel as if you’re in prison rather than trying to get healthy!
The GL Diet For Dummies cuts through the diet hype and gives you an eating plan that helps you safely lose and maintain your weight for life – and boost your overall health at the same time. We don’t make any empty or false promises, but we do give you heaps of tips and strategies to make the diet as easy as possible, together with delicious recipes you’ll want to eat again and again. After a week or two, eating the low-GL way will feel like a way of life rather than a here today, gone tomorrow fad – that’s our promise to you.
In this book we pull together everything you need to get started on a low-GL eating plan, get the results you want, and keep them forever.
About This Book
The GL Diet For Dummies doesn’t give you strict rules and lists of banned foods that leave you feeling deprived and full of guilty food cravings. Instead, in this book we explain how you can stay feeling fuller for longer, experience fewer food cravings, and control your weight with an energised, healthyspring in your step. As well as being a great way to control weight, the GL Diet’s best bonus is the diet is increasingly recognised as offering some real health benefits, such as lowering your risk of heart disease and diabetes.
We show you how to pick one food over another, or mix foods to lower the GL of your meal so that you’re always making the best choices for your health. We also offer great tips for planning menus, food shopping, eating out, and keeping motivated on the plan.
How This Book Is Organised
We designed this book so you don’t have to start with Chapter 1 and read straight through to the end. You can dive in absolutely anywhere and still come up with tons of tasty information about the GL Diet.
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1 homes in on why eating the low-GL way makes so much sense, and why GL is here to stay. If you want to take a whistle-stop tour through the last few decades of the low-carb diet world and find out how science has led us to understand that GL is both an effective and healthy way to control weight, head to Chapter 2. Chapter 3 gets down to business with your start-up guide, suggested eating plans, and ways to fit in all the other elements of a healthy diet.
Part II: Shopping and Eating Out
In Chapter 4 you get the lowdown on getting in and out of the supermarket with everything you need and nothing you don’t, simply buying fantastically healthy food to keep you in the driving seat where your weight is concerned. You can also find the best choices when eating on the run or grabbing a quick lunchtime bite. Chapter 5 takes you on a round the world trip of eating out GL-style, from Indian to Mexican food.
Part III: Morning to Night Recipes
Head to Chapter 6 for breakfast recipes to suit every taste and give you the perfect start to your low-GL day. Chapter 7 has low-GL lunches in a box for the office or out on the run, as well as delicious lunches to have at home. You’ll find Chapter 8 full of our favorite dinner recipes; some that you can pop on the table in minutes and others that you can take your time over or dish up for a special occasion. Chapter 9 spills over with delicious desserts, and Chapter 10 has nutrient-packed snacks for those in-between times.
Part IV: Optimising GL
Want to know how to mix high- and low-GL foods to control the overall GL of a meal? Jump to Chapter 11. Chapter 12 explains where GL fits into the other aspects of healthy living, and also looks at getting your head in the right place to make positive changes to your lifestyle. Skip to Chapter 13 for the health benefits of the GL Diet, so even if you don’t want to lose weight, you can really see how your health can benefit from eating the low-GL way.
Part V: The Part of Tens
You can’t have a For Dummies book without The Part of Tens! This part gives you ten positive health benefits of eating low GL, plus ten great sources of help, support, and further information along with the Web address to get you there quickly. You can also find ten super-easy food swaps to get you around any high-GL food dilemma.
About the Authors
Nigel Denby trained as a dietitian at Glasgow Caledonian University, following an established career in the catering industry. He is also a qualified chef and previously owned his own restaurant.
His dietetic career began as a Research Dietitian at the Human Nutrition Research Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. After a period working as a Community Dietitian, Nigel left the NHS to join Boots Health and Beauty Experience where he led the delivery and training of Nutrition and Weight Management services.
In 2003 Nigel set up his own Nutrition consultancy, delivering a clinical service to Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s Hospital Women’s Health Clinic and the International Eating Disorders Centre in Buckinghamshire as well as acting as Nutrition Consultant for the Childbase Children’s Nursery Group.
Nigel also runs his own private practice in Harley Street, specialising in Weight Management, PMS / Menopause and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Nigel works extensively with the media, writing for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, Zest, Essentials, and various other consumer magazines. His work in radio and television includes BBC and ITN news programmes, Channel 4’s Fit Farm, BBC Breakfast, and BBC Real Story. He is the author of Nutrition For Dummies.
Sue Baic is a Lecturer in Nutrition and Public Health in the Department of Exercise and Health Sciences at Bristol University. She has a first degree from Bristol University followed by a Master of Science in Human Nutrition from London University. Sue is a Registered Dietitian (RD) with over 15 years’ experience in the field of nutrition and health in the NHS and as a freelance consultant. She feels strongly about providing nutrition information to the public that is evidence based, up to date, unbiased, and reliable.
As a member of the public relations committee of the British Dietetic Association she has written for the media on a variety of nutrition related health issues. Sue lives in Bristol and spends her spare time running up and down hills in the Cotswolds in an attempt to get fit. She is the author of Nutrition For Dummies.
Book Details
The GL Diet For Dummies cuts through the diet hype and gives you an eating plan that helps you safely lose and maintain your weight for life – and boost your overall health at the same time. We don’t make any empty or false promises, but we do give you heaps of tips and strategies to make the diet as easy as possible, together with delicious recipes you’ll want to eat again and again. After a week or two, eating the low-GL way will feel like a way of life rather than a here today, gone tomorrow fad – that’s our promise to you.
In this book we pull together everything you need to get started on a low-GL eating plan, get the results you want, and keep them forever.
About This Book
The GL Diet For Dummies doesn’t give you strict rules and lists of banned foods that leave you feeling deprived and full of guilty food cravings. Instead, in this book we explain how you can stay feeling fuller for longer, experience fewer food cravings, and control your weight with an energised, healthyspring in your step. As well as being a great way to control weight, the GL Diet’s best bonus is the diet is increasingly recognised as offering some real health benefits, such as lowering your risk of heart disease and diabetes.
We show you how to pick one food over another, or mix foods to lower the GL of your meal so that you’re always making the best choices for your health. We also offer great tips for planning menus, food shopping, eating out, and keeping motivated on the plan.
How This Book Is Organised
We designed this book so you don’t have to start with Chapter 1 and read straight through to the end. You can dive in absolutely anywhere and still come up with tons of tasty information about the GL Diet.
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1 homes in on why eating the low-GL way makes so much sense, and why GL is here to stay. If you want to take a whistle-stop tour through the last few decades of the low-carb diet world and find out how science has led us to understand that GL is both an effective and healthy way to control weight, head to Chapter 2. Chapter 3 gets down to business with your start-up guide, suggested eating plans, and ways to fit in all the other elements of a healthy diet.
Part II: Shopping and Eating Out
In Chapter 4 you get the lowdown on getting in and out of the supermarket with everything you need and nothing you don’t, simply buying fantastically healthy food to keep you in the driving seat where your weight is concerned. You can also find the best choices when eating on the run or grabbing a quick lunchtime bite. Chapter 5 takes you on a round the world trip of eating out GL-style, from Indian to Mexican food.
Part III: Morning to Night Recipes
Head to Chapter 6 for breakfast recipes to suit every taste and give you the perfect start to your low-GL day. Chapter 7 has low-GL lunches in a box for the office or out on the run, as well as delicious lunches to have at home. You’ll find Chapter 8 full of our favorite dinner recipes; some that you can pop on the table in minutes and others that you can take your time over or dish up for a special occasion. Chapter 9 spills over with delicious desserts, and Chapter 10 has nutrient-packed snacks for those in-between times.
Part IV: Optimising GL
Want to know how to mix high- and low-GL foods to control the overall GL of a meal? Jump to Chapter 11. Chapter 12 explains where GL fits into the other aspects of healthy living, and also looks at getting your head in the right place to make positive changes to your lifestyle. Skip to Chapter 13 for the health benefits of the GL Diet, so even if you don’t want to lose weight, you can really see how your health can benefit from eating the low-GL way.
Part V: The Part of Tens
You can’t have a For Dummies book without The Part of Tens! This part gives you ten positive health benefits of eating low GL, plus ten great sources of help, support, and further information along with the Web address to get you there quickly. You can also find ten super-easy food swaps to get you around any high-GL food dilemma.
About the Authors
Nigel Denby trained as a dietitian at Glasgow Caledonian University, following an established career in the catering industry. He is also a qualified chef and previously owned his own restaurant.
His dietetic career began as a Research Dietitian at the Human Nutrition Research Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. After a period working as a Community Dietitian, Nigel left the NHS to join Boots Health and Beauty Experience where he led the delivery and training of Nutrition and Weight Management services.
In 2003 Nigel set up his own Nutrition consultancy, delivering a clinical service to Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s Hospital Women’s Health Clinic and the International Eating Disorders Centre in Buckinghamshire as well as acting as Nutrition Consultant for the Childbase Children’s Nursery Group.
Nigel also runs his own private practice in Harley Street, specialising in Weight Management, PMS / Menopause and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Nigel works extensively with the media, writing for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, Zest, Essentials, and various other consumer magazines. His work in radio and television includes BBC and ITN news programmes, Channel 4’s Fit Farm, BBC Breakfast, and BBC Real Story. He is the author of Nutrition For Dummies.
Sue Baic is a Lecturer in Nutrition and Public Health in the Department of Exercise and Health Sciences at Bristol University. She has a first degree from Bristol University followed by a Master of Science in Human Nutrition from London University. Sue is a Registered Dietitian (RD) with over 15 years’ experience in the field of nutrition and health in the NHS and as a freelance consultant. She feels strongly about providing nutrition information to the public that is evidence based, up to date, unbiased, and reliable.
As a member of the public relations committee of the British Dietetic Association she has written for the media on a variety of nutrition related health issues. Sue lives in Bristol and spends her spare time running up and down hills in the Cotswolds in an attempt to get fit. She is the author of Nutrition For Dummies.
Book Details
- Paperback: 252 pages
- Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (July 3, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470027533
- ISBN-13: 978-0470027530
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches