THE
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GLYCEMIC
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COOKBOOK 300 appetizing recipes
to keep your weight down and energy up!Nancy T. Maar, coauthor of The Everything Gluten Free Cookbook,
with technical review by Barb Pearl, M.S., R.N., L.D.
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Glycemic Index Cook book Dear Reader, This book is designed to broaden your recipe horizons when it comes to healthy eating. The research has been extensive and thorough. You will learn what veggies are loaded with carbohydrates and high on the Glycemic Index (GI) and which are low.
You'l learn how to mix the high GI and high carbohydrate foods with low to create a style of eating that both satisfies you and helps you control almost any condition based on diet. Whether you have diabetes, hypoglycemia, a heart condition, or are obese, you may find you are eating better because you are food-savvy. When you need energy for strenuous activities, you can draw on your diet to provide it. When you are sitting at a desk and must stay alert, you can plan your diet around that activity, decreasing hunger pangs by snacking intelligently. This book is all about intelligent consumption of a variety of foods for maximum health. Isn't that what we all want? Here's to the delicious recipes that will make you feel wonderful and look terrific, too.
Enjoy!
This book is dedicated to my mother, Patricia Walsh Toensmeier, whose fight on behalf of diabetics for good-tasting sugar-free candies and drinks was tireless. She would love this book!
Acknowledgments
Many thanks go to editor Kate Burgo for her understanding. I can't say enough good things or sufficiently express my gratitude to Ellen Stringer for her organizational prowess and diligence. She faithfully figured the stats and pre-edited the recipes, making sure that I didn't make any dangerous assumptions that would have left the reader wondering what I meant. I must also thank my husband, Leonard Maar, for his years of encouraging me to write.
Introduction
The other night while fixing a dinner of baked fish, baby artichokes stuffed with garlic and cheese, and a big salad, I thought of how delicious this dinner would be.
Introduction
The other night while fixing a dinner of baked fish, baby artichokes stuffed with garlic and cheese, and a big salad, I thought of how delicious this dinner would be.
How healthy and satisfying! A dessert of fresh fruit made it both low calorie and filling. When I began creating recipes for this cookbook, I had a special interest in the topic of controlling blood sugar by making dietary changes. My mother contracted type 2 diabetes in her early sixties, and my sister is hypoglycemic. I often thought that my mother ate her way into diabetes. She'd skip a decent lunch or dinner and have two pieces of cake instead! Her body lied to her giving her unhealthy cravings that exacerbated her heart condition. As a result of my sister's condition, she has to be extremely careful not to overload her system with glucose or to allow her glucose level to drop excessively.
The slow-release carbohydrates in the recipes listed in this book are perfectly suited to improve her health and energy. Enjoying very good health and not wanting to contract either hypoglycemia or diabetes, I embraced this project with enthusiasm. As people get older, their metabolisms tend to slow. A meal that includes a fast-released carbohydrate coupled with a slow one will keep your blood sugar more level and maintain a comfortable level of energy for your body. When you understand the Glycemic Index as your guide to meal planning, you will, with regular exercise, lose excess pounds, have loads of energy, and generally last longer at whatever you are doing. It works for me!
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Understanding the Glycemic Index
The Glycemic Index (GI) is a tool to help you decide what to eat to help you achieve various goals, including increasing your energy and endurance, losing weight, and managing hypoglycemia and diabetes.
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