The G.I. Diet: The Easy, Healthy Way to Permanent Weight Loss

by Rick Gallop | Health, Mind & Body |
ISBN: 0753509180 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Dorothyredboots of York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on 2/20/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by Dorothyredboots from York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, February 20, 2006
It's rather a relief to discover that The GI Diet is not, after all, an in-depth investigation into the secrets of the US Army's mess halls and field rations. This GI stands for Glycemic Index, the latest thing in weight-loss thinking. Encouragingly based on his own efforts to lose weight, the introduction explains how Rick Gallop worked his way through diet after diet. Single-food diets (grapefruit, cabbage) he rejected as unsustainable; high-protein/low-carb ones unreliable and potentially dangerous (sorry, Dr Atkins). None of them worked in the long run. Finally he stumbled across the theories of nutritionist Dr David Jenkins, and the GI Diet, the new Only Diet That Works, was born. Essentially, the Glycemic Index measures how quickly carbohydrates are digested and release their sugars into the bloodstream. Foods with a high GI rating release glucose rapidly, their energy is rapidly burned up and hunger quickly returns. The Chinese meal syndrome, where you're hungry half an hour later, is the perfect illustration of this. Low-rated slow-release foods, by contrast, provide long-term energy and tend to require the body to do more work to convert it. Oats, beans, barley and similar foods high in soluble fibre represent the ideal forms of low-GI food. Fats are likewise differentiated into the familiar saturated (bad), unsaturated (good) and polyunsaturated (best).

This book was recommended by the nutritionalists at the hospital, when my husband was diagnosed with diabetes. We found it very useful in helping us to adjust our eating habits. It does seem a very healthy way to eat. But basically you do have to renounce all processed food and get back in the kitchen! It is not so much a diet per se, more an eating plan for life.

Journal Entry 2 by Dorothyredboots at Church Street in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, April 29, 2022

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