Customer Reviews

The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Family Cookbook: Raise Food-Smart Kids--100 Fun and Delicious Recipes Made Healthy with the Glycemic Index

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This book helped me to eat right. I was a pre-diabetic weighing 235 lbs. Since following this book's guidelines in August, 2007, my blood glucose now is less than a 100, my weight has dropped to 188 pounds, and my trouser size has gone from a 42 to a 36. I highly recommend this book to anyone with heart trouble, diabetes, to anyone wanting to live a health lifestyle.

We're trying to eat a healthier diet as a family, so I've been hunting for cookbooks to help. A lot of recipes in this category would be too "weird" for my kids to try--they'd just turn up their noses at it. This cookbook offers many kid-friendly recipes, plus has a chapter on helping your kids eat a healthier diet in general. The only complaint I have is that the dinner section falls back on some of those "weird" recipes that I know my kids would never touch, plus many recipes that call for some unusual ingredients like lamb--not a staple in my corner of the world.

Living with Diabetes in the family becomes a challenge for meal planning, at times.
This book gives a refreshing new look at easy to make, delicious meals

I just received this book in the mail. I was really looking forward to it, and what a disappointment! I will be returning it. Being newly diagnosed with Diabetes and wanting to lose some weight I've decided to do the low glycemic thing. My only problem is, I tend to be somewhat of a picky eater. I bought this book thinking that the recipes would be "picky-eater" friendly since it's geared towards children and families. How wrong I was.

Not only are half of the recipes something I would never consider eating (and most likely children too), but many contain questionable ingredients on the glycemic index, such as brown sugar, etc. Additionally, nowhere do they provide approximate GI values or GL values for any of the recipes. Ridiculous! They do indicate total number of carbohydrates per serving, of which many recipes reach into the 50s, which is relatively high.

All in all, I'm very disappointed. I had previously purchased The Glycemic Index Diet for Dummies and The Complete Idiot's Guide Glycemic Index Cookbook, both of which were far superior to this book which is claimed to have been written by the world's foremost authority on the glycemic index. HA!

Fun, healthy food for the entire family. Not too difficult to prepare for busy moms and dads, either. Kids should love most of it, although the look and textures may be off-ptting for some.

I read the other reviews before purchasing the New Glucose Revolution Low GI Family Cookbook. However, it was not what I expected. The first half of the book explains Low GI foods, and the last half are recipes. In my opinion, there were too many pages spent explaining the Low GI diet, and not nearly enough recipes for a ''cookbook''. This was a waste of my money. Several of the recipes call for items most people don't keep on hand, and a few of these recipes were just strange. Don't waste your money if you are expecting a real cookbook with lots of recipes.

Some good recipes, but most were for or would appeal to children, if you are looking for recipes for yourself or you and your spouse as I was, I do not recommend....

This ended up being just another cookbook, with a glucose spin. I'm not impressed. Books such as this need to be written with everyday cooking in mind, not with fancy or complicated recipes but with recipes we already use but with some modifications.

This is a great book I really enjoy going through it. Has helped me alot