"The phenomenal success of Rick Gallop's The Gi Diet - based on a simple traffic-light system for choosing the right foods to eat according to their rating on the Glycemic Index - has proved to be the easy and healthy way to permanent weight loss for hundreds of thousands of people. It's so simple to use that you will never have to count another calorie, gram or point ever again!
Rick Gallop earned his master's degree from Oxford University before emigrating to North America. After a highly successful career in marketing and advertising, he spent the next 16 years as President and CEO of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.
During this time, due to a back injury, he had his own weight gain struggle which resulted in his first book the G.I. Diet, in 2002. This was followed by a further eight titles including the GI Diet Cookbook; a pocket guide to Shopping and Eating out; and three books based on actual e-Clinics for "big people"; menopausal women; and diabetics.
The books are sold worldwide in over 20 countries in 17 languages.
He resides in Toronto and in the Muskoka Lakes and is married with three children.
