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The Glycemic Load Diet Cookbook:150 Recipes to Help You Lose Weight and Reverse Insulin Resistance

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We've heard a lot about the glycemic index in recent years, but not many people know exactly what that means and why they should care. The problem with GI is it is an incomplete equation when it comes to figuring out what impact a particular food will have on the body. A better tool is to determine the glycemic load of what you eat and that's something Dr. Rob Thompson has devoted himself to with his diet plan. In this book of recipes that serves as a companion to The Glycemic-Load Diet, Dr. Thompson teams up with world-famous low-carb cookbook author Dana Carpender to whip up some yummy recipes that are designed to control insulin spikes which lead to weight gain, hunger, and disease. One thing you can always count on when Dana Carpender contributes recipes to a cookbook is variety, mouthwatering dishes, and a commitment to keeping them low-carb. You get 150 outstanding recipes to enjoy for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and everything in between with this book!

A straight forward and immensely useful review of the Glycemic Load Diet plus lots of really delicious recipes. Dana's work is in my experience always well researched, entertaining, educational and makes for fabulous food that contributes to your health. If you're thinking of returning to health this New Year this should be your first buy and if you have Dana's other cookbooks you won't find this redundant, but fresh and inspiring.

Having read The Glycemic Load Diet, I was interested to get this book and try some new recipes. Every dish I have tried so far has been easy to prepare and quite tasty. Also, this book includes an overview of information from The Glycemic Load Diet, which may be helpful for those who do not own that book.

I found this book to be not quite what I had expected. The part written by the doctor contains perhaps the most concise and well written explanation of insulin resistance that has so far been penned. I only wish the recipe part with Danna Carpenter had been well rounded and included at least a few recipes for people who did not want to make meat their be all and end all in the diet process.

Clearly the aim was to focus on what the authors saw as the average American and hence if you shun meat for ethical or religious grounds the recipe section can offer you almost nothing. Additionally if you are lactose sensitive the recipes will be near impossible with heavy reliance on milk products, including whey protein powder. Once again there is no mention of possible low carbohydrate cheese substitutes Gluten is mentioned in two sentences - not a single recipe, textured vegetable protein not even mentioned and certainly no recipes using it and the same for tofu.

Not a good book of non- meat eaters or those lactose intolerant. Otherwise contains good if not great information and moderately easy to make, meat based, recipes the average person should enjoy

Pretty easy to follow this diet, especially when it makes you feel better and you can get off medicines. Before I started the diet, I was taking 7 different meds a day for high cholesterol, GERDS, high triglycerides, and rapid pulse, plus I was diabetic. I was also almost 25 pounds over my ideal weight and kept gaining. In only a few months after changing my diet, I dropped over 20 pounds and even after two years am still taking 0 (zero, none, nada, no) meds. All my numbers are fine and I am no longer diabetic. I am the poster child for this diet. It is great!

If you are really following the Glycemic Load this book is one you want. If you have diabetes and are not following the G L you really should be. I was told to watch my "sugar" levels because my mothers side of family has diabetes bad. Because now I understand a lot better what to do, only because I have read all of Rob Thompson's books, I have had no problem with my levels. I maintain, unless I "Cheat", levels at just about 100 to 105 and that is testing at anytime.

Highly recommend all of his books.

This is not a diet book. This book explains just exactly which types of foods help you to gain weight and which types help you to lose weight in plain English. A refreshing change from all of the "diet" books out there.

Dana Carpender has another winner with this book! What I like about her books is that they are what you really want to eat! I love the bran muffins, the curried cashews, and the rice-a-phoney! I'm sure I will enjoy other recipes as I continue to explore the book.

Interesting information regarding starches I had not heard before.

Some good cooking tips such as how to make a pretty omelet.

Changing the Kindle to landscape mode using smallest font allowed one of the glycemic load tables to be mostly viewed (just a bit fuzzy on the last character).

The formatting is not the greatest for the Kindle or for cooking.

The recipes look to be delicious, but will require trips to an Asian food market and/or a health food store as ingredients include items I do not normally carry in my cupboard such as: fish sauce, guar, xanthan, shirataki, coconut oil, peanut oil, dark sesame oil, whey, etc, etc. If you normally prepare foods using these or similar items you may not have the immediate expense of grocery shopping I would.

The recipes are such that they can be said to not trigger insulin production causing spikes and drops in blood sugar (thus broadly they are GI) but certainly not what I expected and was hoping for. The recipes are fat-laden. I calculated the percentage of fat for each recipe. I found 12 with fat under 30% and 8 with fat under 40%. The remaining recipes (although they sound tasty) will not be going onto my table due to their high-fat content.

This book is what I was basing my eating on, following the list of glycemic loads in the back. Now I have run into a very different list, in two places, and I'm confused. I don't know which to believe. The other is from an international list, in 2002. I haven't found in this book if it tells the source of its glycemic load info. I want to follow the correct list.