• Includes over 200 delicious snacks and small plate meals, each with a low GI rating • Offers recipes for each part of the day, including vegetarian and vegan alternatives

A fully updated and expanded edition of a weight loss program that readers can count on This fully updated and expanded edition clearly explains just how and why a glycemic index diet works by showing readers how to eat the right kind of foods—more complex carbohydrates, fiber, grains, and fruit. • The glycemic index diet is a solution for many people at risk for Type II diabetes or those with insulin-sensitivity or resistance • Includes information on supplements, easy recipes, food lists, and sample meal plans • Includes an appendix with glycemic index counts and loads for all sorts of food • Features a new study on how eating certain foods cold can make a big difference

Provides recipes for every meal and occasion, based on the glycemic index, so you can eat to your heart's content while keeping your insulin levels in balance and your weight in check.--

Diabetic-friendly recipes the whole family will love! From appetizers to desserts and everything in between, here are three-hundred easy-to-prepare recipes for diabetics that can be made from everyday household ingredients; and the entire family can enjoy. Food categories include Mexican, Italian, Pan-Asian, fish, poultry, lean-beef and pork entrees; appetizers, snacks, side dishes, breads and desserts; and fruits, vegetables, soups, salads, pastats, and breads. First diabetic cookbook to use the new glycemic index for all recipes; three-hundred recipes, far more than others on the market; 6.5% of the U.S. population has diabetes; the World Health Organization is predicting the number of people with diabetes to double from 140 million to 300 million by 2025.

Presents an introduction to the Glycemic Index and includes information on nutritional supplements, basic recipes, sample meal plans, and food lists.

For those 65 million Americans who suffer from hypertension, as well as everyone else who has to or wants to curb their sodium intake, preparing meals that are both tasty and nutritionally responsible can prove to be very difficult. Throw in the culinary preferences of other family members, and finding meals everyone will enjoy can be as painful as adding salt to a wound, right . . . ? Not anymore. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Sodium Mealsoffers readers more than 250 delicious recipes the whole family can get excited about. From appetizers to desserts and everything in between, this book focuses on the everyday kinds of recipes families have grown to love and can put together with simple and flavourful salt substitutes. Readers might not see that hard-to-find recipe for carrot soup with leek and blood orange, but they will discover lots of delicious and easy-to-prepare, low-sodium recipes.

Shed those pounds the healthy way. This brand-new edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Healthy Weight Loss not only gives readers critical information on nutrition and health—it also delivers everything they need to know about the mental and exercise pieces of the weight-loss puzzle. In addition, it presents a comprehensive overview of today’s most popular diets, chapters on such major diet types as low-fat, low-sodium, low-carb, and low-cal, as well as chapters on dieting for kids, dieting for diabetics, dieting for heart health, and more. Best of all, readers will find five unique diet plans to help them lose weight—and keep it off—starting today! • Features new research on how nutrition and certain foods affect body weight • Expanded information on surgical and pharmaceutical options for weight loss, plus the skinny on supplements and over-the-counter remedies • Upload exercise chapters with more fat-burning exercises and updated charts for calorie burning (including suggestions for meeting the U.S. Government’s new exercise recommendations)