The Good News Eating Plan for Type II Diabetes [Paperback]

Elaine Magee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998

An easy-to-follow, personalized eating plan --loaded with the foods you really want!

At last, a book that can help you eat better, stay healthier, and enjoy the foods you love-written by a registered dietitian and bestselling nutrition author. The Good News Eating Plan for Type II Diabetes considers your personal dietary and lifestyle preferences as it provides the tools you need to start making choices that are right for you.

Here is delicious proof positive that it's possible to eat well and stay within the American Diabetes Association's new guidelines. Elaine Magee's nutritionally sound strategies for sensible blood sugar management and weight control will help you create a practical eating plan that will not leave you feeling deprived of your favorite foods. Packed with invaluable information, The Good News Eating Plan for Type II Diabetes includes:
* 50 healthy and delicious recipes that allow you to enjoy many of the foods you miss most
* An easy new plan --the C-F-F plan for counting carbohydrates, fat, and fiber --that makes sense of the newest guidelines
* Scores of tables that help you easily keep track of your diet
* An easy-to-use supermarket "scorecard" that rates the best-tasting fat-free and sugar-free foods
* Guidelines for simplified carbo-counting
* Answers to your most frequently asked questions about food and nutrition

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Diabetics no longer need to feel deprived by the dietary restrictions they must follow. Here, registered dietitian and best-selling nutrition author Elaine Magee proves that it's possible to eat well without departing from the American Diabetic Association's new guidelines. Armed with a battery of easy-to-use tools--including tables, recipes, and a supermarket "score card" that rates the best fat-free/sugar-free foods--diabetics can create individualized eating plans that allow them to safely enjoy the foods they love.

From the Back Cover

An easy-to-follow, personalized eating plan —loaded with the foods you really want!

At last, a book that can help you eat better, stay healthier, and enjoy the foods you love-written by a registered dietitian and bestselling nutrition author. The Good News Eating Plan for Type II Diabetes considers your personal dietary and lifestyle preferences as it provides the tools you need to start making choices that are right for you.

Here is delicious proof positive that it's possible to eat well and stay within the American Diabetes Association's new guidelines. Elaine Magee's nutritionally sound strategies for sensible blood sugar management and weight control will help you create a practical eating plan that will not leave you feeling deprived of your favorite foods. Packed with invaluable information, The Good News Eating Plan for Type II Diabetes includes:

• 50 healthy and delicious recipes that allow you to enjoy many of the foods you miss most
• An easy new plan —the C-F-F plan for counting carbohydrates, fat, and fiber —that makes sense of the newest guidelines
• Scores of tables that help you easily keep track of your diet
• An easy-to-use supermarket "scorecard" that rates the best-tasting fat-free and sugar-free foods
• Guidelines for simplified carbo-counting
• Answers to your most frequently asked questions about food and nutrition

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471176249
• ISBN-13: 978-0471176244
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,215,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm THE RECIPE DOCTOR and my motto is...changing the way America eats, one recipe at a time! My other motto is...healthy food isn't going to do anyone any good if no ones eating it--it HAS to taste good and be easy to make.

So, are you with me? I spent a year researching all the research examples of FOOD SYNERGY (how components within food and between food work together in your body for maximum health benefit) and the result was one of my favorite books: FOOD SYNERGY (Rodale, 2008). If you don't have a lot of time, read the introduction and go straight to chapter 7. This chapter will blow your mind...it's the "aha" chapter and it puts everything together and shows you how the 10 synergy superfoods can transform your diet. The rest of the book is filled with fun and easy to make recipes and each recipe includes "food synergy notes" which list for you the various food synergy partnerships represented in that recipe (and there are usually at least 3 in each).

My next book is coming out in Spring 2010, TELL ME WHAT TO EAT IF I SUFFER FROM HEART DISEASE, and it's going to help anyone who is at risk of heart disease or has heart disease. I'm really excited about this book because it includes and makes sense of the latest research advancements. I had several well known cardiologists review the book and I'm thrilled that they loved it and thought it would help their patients greatly.

On a lighter note... I often get asked what my favorite type of cooking is and hands down it's good old homestyle cooking...you know...fruit crisps, lasagna, oven-fried chicken, chocolate chip cookies, etc. Nothing too fancy, just delicious! So, imagine how much fun I had working on my cookbooks "Comfort Food Makeovers" and "Fry Light, Fry Right!."

I love to "makeover" all your favorite recipes into healthful versions that taste just as great but have less calories, fat, and saturated fat and more smart fats (like omega-3s), and fiber and nutrients.

Please join my FREE Recipe Doctor club where I email you one of my all-time favorite recipe makeovers each month (just go to my website, www.recipedoctor.com and look in the upper right-hand corner).

If you've made it this far down the page, I'll let you in on a little secret--My big professional hope is to have a cooking show (a healthy one of course). In my books I try to write so that you feel like I'm right there with you holding your hand as we talk about whatever the subject of the book is (diabetes, menopause, IBS, etc...) Maybe with a cooking show, I really can be there with you!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

64 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most helpful diet guide I've found yet!, April 15, 2000

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Cati (Silicon Valley) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Good News Eating Plan for Type II Diabetes (Paperback)

I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes two and a half years ago. My first response was to research diet, nutrition and exercise as means of controlling my blood sugar. I've gone through dozens of books since then, and this is the first one I've found that actually pulls the information together in a practical way that works for me.

There are hundreds of diabetic cookbooks and meal planners on the market. The problem is that different people will have different responses to certain combinations of carbs, fat, and protein in their diets. This book takes the time to explain why some diabetics may need to have as little as 30% of their daily calories coming from carbohydrates, while others may need to have as much as 60% of their daily calories from carbs. The author also talks about the effect fiber has on glucose levels, and her system for balancing a diabetic diet relies on counting carbohydrates, calories, and fiber rather than exchanges.

Many other books provide menus and specific meal plans. The big problem with that approach, from my point of view, is that it can be very difficult to apply those meal plans to a family situation. This book focuses on strategies rather than specific menus, which allows me to control my diet more effectively even when I am in unexpected situations.

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, to the point, encouraging, and informative, November 9, 1999

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Sally (Bothell, Washington, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Good News Eating Plan for Type II Diabetes (Paperback)

During the time of denial, anger, depression and total rejection of my diagnosis as Diabetic, I purchased several books to research and find out what to do. The Good News Eating Plan For Type II Diabetes by Elaine Magee gave me the immediate help and information I needed as if I were speaking with the author. Clear, to the point, encouraging, and full of information for the newly diagnosed. I have returned to it repeatedly for assistance. Thank you, Elaine.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good information and advice, January 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Good News Eating Plan for Type II Diabetes (Paperback)

This book provides an excellent resource for Type II diabetics. The first section clearly explains essential information needed to manage diabetes and especially nutritional and dietary approaches.The author makes good arguments for balancing carbohydrates with fat and fiber, the advantages of mono-unsaturated fats, and especially that sugar alone is not the enemy. The role of the glycemic index is stressed and how foods that have lower indices are also likely to make you feel less hungry longer. The nutritional goals and strategies are easy to read and absorb. The book however falls short of its potential in the sections which describe how to implement all this advice. Quantitative information on nutritional content and glycemic index are presented inside the text in 3 long tables of every food known to man which are repetitive and disturb the flow of reading the text. These should have been combined into a single table highlighting foods high in fiber and low in index; as it stands one must flip back and forth to figure out which foods provide what. There is a lot of good information here - especially useful is a list of best tasting foods that are "light" - one can look for substitute brands for foods in one's own present diet, which are thus likely to be used. There is some information presented on how to balance some meals e.g. adding cram cheese to a bagel actualy helps! However, one is left to figure out meal plans and menus, where the book could have really helped with suggestions for a week of menus for several of the stategies suggested. All in all, this was a very helpful book, but it could have been MUCH better with a little more organization and detail.