Healthy Eating for Diabetes [Paperback]

Antony Worrall Thompson (Author), Azmina Govindji (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2007 | Series: Healthy Eating

Diabetes and sugar are traditionally seen as mutually exclusive and it is frequently believed that people with diabetes have to give up their favourite foods, especially sweet dishes, and maintain strict eating habits. The truth is that by observing a few simple rules like basing meals on starchy, carbohydrate foods, and eating a balanced diet, it is possible to live with diabetes and still enjoy good food. And by adapting recipes for cakes and puddings you can continue to eat your favourite desserts. This book explains how to manage your diabetes through food and eat a balanced diet. It explains the glycaemic index (GI) of foods and how to use it to manage your glucose levels. And although there are a few foods (fizzy drinks, sweets) that should be avoided, sweet foods can still be enjoyed as long as you balance them with low GI foods. Anthony Worall Thompson explains how to adapt recipes so that they use less sugar and fat - for example, using the natural sweetness of fresh or dried fruit instead of sugar - and also offers delicious, low-sugar recipes created specially for this book.

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About the Author

Antony Worrall Thompson is one of the UK's most recognised chefs. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, he studied hotel and catering management at Westminster College. Starting as a sous chef at Brinkley's Restaurant, he was head chef within a month and has since opened his own restaurants. Most recently he revamped his popular restaurant in Notting Hill, formerly known as Wiz and now called Notting Grill. Antony is also the co-presenter of BBC's Food and Drink and a regular chef on BBC2's Ready, Steady, Cook. Passionate about organic farming, he also grows fruit and vegetables at his home on the banks of the Thames. Author of several recipe books, he has recently completed his autobiography and has already worked with Diabetes UK. He has also been diagnosed with Syndrome X, a pre-diabetes medical condition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Kyle Cathie (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1856265056
• ISBN-13: 978-1856265058
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,983,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Healthy and Adventurous Food, July 17, 2010

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KimbesasCloset "kimbesa" (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healthy Eating for Diabetes (Paperback)

I'm looking at the Chicken Tagine recipe (page 115) and its accompaniment Jeweled Couscous (page 61). The only ingredients I'm going to have to buy are the chicken thighs, garlic, saffron and fresh cilantro.

For the couscous, easily available in the metro area where I live, I'll also get the flat leaf parsley and a lemon.

Both recipes will use the slivered almonds and dried apricots I keep on hand, and the cilantro purchased for the tagine.

If you want to eat healthier, you are probably going to have to change what you have in your pantry, as well as what and how often you shop.

This book was originally published in Great Britain, and has an international sensibility to the recipes. Some might call it a gourmet approach. But I'm very happy with it.

Beyond trying new foods that I've not tried to make myself (explained simply and clearly, with beautiful photos), I believe attention to glycemic index is important, at least for my metabolism. This is the concept where you take into account how fast a certain food is metabolized by the body, so that you even out the sugar highs and lows.

I give this a 5 because it is an easy introduction to a healthier diet, with how to information in the front section, and tasty recipes in the rest. I may never get to the tea-smoked quail, but there are lots of tempting choices. Tagine, here we come... The apple crisp will be next.

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1.0 out of 5 stars healthy eating for diabetics..., April 20, 2009

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Margaret A. Chapman (indianapolois, indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healthy Eating for Diabetes (Paperback)

the recipes weren't with common kitchen products.
no one wants to have to shop for something you will only use one time