Good Carbs, Bad Carbs: Lose Weight and Enjoy Optimum Health and Vitality by Eating the Right Carbs, Second Edition-Revised and Updated (Paperback)

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"A simple, no-nonsense guide that shows how your brain and your body will benefit from good carbs." -- Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, New York Times bestselling author of The New Glucose Revolution

Product Description

When it was first published early in 2002, Good Carbs, Bad Carbs was the first book to use the phrase "good carbs" and to clarify how to adjust one’s eating habits to strike the perfect balance of carbohydrates for optimum health, weight, and vitality. Now, in this new, completely revised edition, best-selling author Johanna Burani brings Good Carbs, Bad Carbs totally up-to-date—with references to the most recent research—and more useful than ever for everyone trying to figure out exactly what carbs they should be eating. The focus remains on using the glycemic index to identify the carbs that most help to lose weight, stay healthy, control blood glucose levels, and maintain energy throughout the day. This edition of the best-selling guide also includes a wonderfully helpful laminated 4-color pullout shopping guide, as well as twenty all new good-carb recipes.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press; 2nd edition (December 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569243980
• ISBN-13: 978-1569243985
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #264,526 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buy the Good Carb Cookbook instead, August 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Good Carbs, Bad Carbs: An Indispensable Guide to Eating the Right Carbs for Losing Weight and Optimum Health (Paperback)

This book is poorly written. The information is good, if you can find it and understand what he's trying to say. He makes up his own names for certain words. He jumps around. You can't use this book as a reference - you'll never find the information again. There's no consistent writing pattern. Buy The Good Carb Cookbook by Sandra Woodruff instead. It has the same information, in a flowing and easy to read, understandable format. She doesn't make up her own words like tricklers, etc. And you get a bunch of good recipes too.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated and patronizing, August 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Good Carbs, Bad Carbs: An Indispensable Guide to Eating the Right Carbs for Losing Weight and Optimum Health (Paperback)

I didn't expect much from this book and I got even less. The information presented walks the old "food pyramid" party line, advocating a high carbohydrate diet. The authors seem to be trying to capitalize on the interest generated by the latest studies on carbohydrates, but without adding any new information. The back of the book does have a short (8.5 pages) list of "glycemic index values," but rather than listing the actual glycemic values of anything, they resort to the patronizing, vague and annoying practice of assigning everything a value of "gusher," "tricker," or "intermediate." They also list whether each food in the table is a "sugar" or a "starch," a line of thinking proven meaningless.

As an example of the discredited advice they offer, "healthy" snacks recommended in the book include: chewy granola bars, graham crackers, pretzels and cookies.

In a menu they recommend for a second-grader, the foods include pre-sweetened breakfast cereal, graham cookies, and sugar-sweetened pudding...all in the same day!

Even if you can get past the unsettling "gushers and tricklers" analogies used ad nauseum throughout the book, you are unlikely to gain any new, much less valid information.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book changed my life forever!!, September 27, 2002

By	"jmmadden1" (Wayne, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good Carbs, Bad Carbs: An Indispensable Guide to Eating the Right Carbs for Losing Weight and Optimum Health (Paperback)

This is the ideal book for those who would like the whole story on carbohydrates and the glycemic index! It is an excellent resource for diabetics and non-diabetics. It explains how to eat the right amount of carbohydrates for a healthy lifestyle! My whole outlook on diet and nutrition has changed thanks to this book!