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The Low GI Guide to Your Heart and the Metabolic Syndrome
Shopper’s Guide to GI Values 2006
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[Find More]The Metabolic Syndrome and Your Heart Pocket Guide
ISBN 073361650X Hodder RRP$12.95
Release June 2003
NB: This title has been republished as The Low GI Guide to Your Heart and the Metabolic Syndrome.
Did you know that heart disease is the single biggest killer of Australians? Every ten minutes, every day, someone in Australia suffers a cardiovascular event.
Now a new ‘silent’ disease is also affecting one in two Australians: the metabolic syndrome (sometimes called the insulin resistance syndrome or Syndrome X), a collection of abnormalities that increases your risk of heart attack.
Few people realise that the type of carbohydrate you eat can help stop these deadly diseases. A diet rich in carbohydrates with a low glycemic index (GI) helps control blood glucose, insulin sensitivity and weight, reducing the risk of heart disease and the metabolic syndrome.
This handy guide tells you all about the GI and its benefits for heart health, and shows how easy it is to follow a low GI diet, with:
The latest statistics and studies on heart disease
A 7-day low fat, low GI meal plan
Easy-to-understand information about the GI
Practical tips to make GI a part of your diet.
Author Info
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 … [more]
Kaye Foster-Powell is the co-author of the worldwide best-selling New Glucose Revolution series. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney and holds a BSc (Hons) in biochemistry and a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is the senior dietician at Wentworth Area Diabetes Service. Kaye … [more]
Dr Anthony Leeds is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at King’s College, London. He graduated in medicine from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, in 1971. He conducts research on carbohydrate and dietary fibre in relation to heart disease, obesity and diabetes, continues part-time medical … [more]
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