Jennie Brand-Miller

Professor Jennie Brand-Miller holds a Personal Chair in Human Nutrition in the School of Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. Her research interests focus on all aspects of carbohydrates—diet and diabetes, the glycemic index of foods, insulin resistance, lactose intolerance and oligosaccharides in infant nutrition. She holds a special interest in evolutionary nutrition and the diet of Australian Aborigines. She has published 16 books and 150 journal articles. Her books about the glycemic index, The New Glucose Revolution, are international best-sellers with more than 2 million in sales since 1996. The most recent title in the series, The Low GI Diet, was published in September 2004.