Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Essentially, this is a recipe book with introductory sections explaining the Glycaemic Index and Glycaemic Load.approach to eating. It is also a weight-loss plan, with most of the recipe meals coming in at less than 300 calories, although for weight maintenance the portions can be increased. The GL diet is a recommended eating plan for diabetics, although AWT?s recipes would probably horrify low-carbing diabetics as he suggests fifty percent of food should be carbohydrate, with around 200g per day for women and 270g per day for men. Many low-carbers balk at anything over 100g carbs.
The explanations of GI and GL, plus their benefits both as a healthy way of eating and to aid weight loss are brief, but clearly written, comprising around one quarter of the book. The remainder is devoted to the recipes. The recipes are accompanies by nutritional information which is useful, but in order to keep things ?simple? the actual GL value is not included which seems to defeat the purpose somewhat- the calculation may be a little complex, but surely this could have been done and provided so that some comparisons could be made and the concept clarified further? My other criticism is that, although there are some large, full colour pictures of some of the dishes, they are not captioned, and the majority of meals are not illustrated. For me, this is an omission as I always eat ?with my eyes? first. Some of the ingredients might also be difficult to source unless you live in a large town.
Overall, it didn?t do much for me, but if you like AWT?s recipes in general and have followed his previous books on GI, then this may also please, but I have seen better.
Antony Worrall Thompson's GL Diet Made Simple
The explanations of GI and GL, plus their benefits both as a healthy way of eating and to aid weight loss are brief, but clearly written, comprising around one quarter of the book. The remainder is devoted to the recipes. The recipes are accompanies by nutritional information which is useful, but in order to keep things ?simple? the actual GL value is not included which seems to defeat the purpose somewhat- the calculation may be a little complex, but surely this could have been done and provided so that some comparisons could be made and the concept clarified further? My other criticism is that, although there are some large, full colour pictures of some of the dishes, they are not captioned, and the majority of meals are not illustrated. For me, this is an omission as I always eat ?with my eyes? first. Some of the ingredients might also be difficult to source unless you live in a large town.
Overall, it didn?t do much for me, but if you like AWT?s recipes in general and have followed his previous books on GI, then this may also please, but I have seen better.
Antony Worrall Thompson's GL Diet Made Simple
