The Nordic Way

Professor Arne Astrup, Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, and Danish TV health guru/dietitian Christian Bitz know the Nordic diet is a great diet for getting healthy and staying lean, even into middle age and beyond. As leaders in obesity research, glycemic science, and healthy living, respectively, they’ve learned that eating a specific ratio of proteins, whole grains, and vegetables and incorporating traditional Nordic ingredients such as rye bread, skyr yogurt, and rapeseed (canola) oil into one’s diet are effective paths to overall health and stable weight. The book features peer-reviewed studies that support the diet and more than 60 recipes. In future issues, we’ll share recipes with GI News readers. To find out more about the book, head over to the publisher’s website.

Our Mary (Crown Princess Mary to be precise) is onto something. When she followed her prince to Copenhagen, she lost weight easily, all the while enjoying the traditional diet of the Danes.  Move over Mediterranean diets – it’s time to let the Scandinavian diets shine. 

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Hardcover – 240 pp
Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780451495846

  The Good Carbs Cook Book

Good carbs are essential. They supply the feel-good, taste-good fuel to keep you strong, boost your energy and help you stay healthy. The Good Carbs Cookbook helps you choose the best fruits, vegetables, beans, peas, lentils, seeds, nuts and grains and explains how to use them in 100 refreshingly nourishing recipes to enjoy every day, for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and dessert. The recipes have short ingredients lists, are easy to prepare, quick to cook, long in flavour and full of sustaining goodness, so you feel fuller for longer. There is a nutritional analysis for each recipe and there are tips and helpful hints for the novice, nervous, curious or time-starved cook.

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Paperback – pp
Murdoch Books
ISBN: 9781743368169

  Reversing Diabetes

The latest research into type 2 diabetes shows that for some people it’s possible to put diabetes into remission and for others they can prevent or at least delay the complications of diabetes. Reversing Diabetes explores what these findings mean for you. Drawing on over 20 years of clinical experience as an Accredited Practising Dietitian, including nearly 16 years at Diabetes Australia, Dr Alan Barclay combines the highest- quality evidence about the nutritional management and prevention of diabetes into one easy-to-read book.

  • Advice for losing weight and keeping it off
  • 70 inspiring, delicious recipes for households large and small with complete nutritional breakdown for each recipe

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Paperback – 238 pp
Murdoch Books
ISBN: 978 1 74336 614 1

  Eat to Beat Cholesterol

Eat to Beat Cholesterol is not just another diet or cook book. It can tip the balance towards a healthy heart and make healthy living a reality for you and your family. In this fully updated edition, you can discover the truly delicious world of heart-friendly foods what you need to know and how much you can eat to lower your cholesterol and manage your weight. As well as recipes, eating plans and shopping and cooking tips, there are quickies fast and easy ways to include super-heart food in your daily diet, all with nutritional information.

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Paperback – 328 pp
New Holland
ISBN: 9781742578316

he Low GI Diet Handbook

The ultimate GI reference to the most significant dietary finding of the last 25 years. The glycemic index (GI) is an easy-to-understand measure of how food affects blood glucose levels and has revolutionised the way we eat. This fifth edition of Australia’s New York Times bestseller is the one-stop classic resource for anyone who wants to discover the benefits of adopting a healthy low GI lifestyle and will help you:

  • Improve diabetes management
  • Reduce the risk of heart disease and improve blood cholesterol levels
  • Lose weight and keep it off
  • Reduce hunger and stay full for longer
  • Increase your body’s sensitivity to insulin.

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Paperback – 368 pp
Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9780733615007

Low GI Diet: Managing Type 2 Diabetes

Managing Type 2 Diabetes cuts through the confusion of conflicting advice and sets out clearly and simply what you need to eat and do to help you: reduce your risk of developing diabetes; improve your cardiovascular health; keep your blood glucose levels, blood pressure and blood fats under control; and maintain a healthy body. It is a practical guide to help you manage your diabetes or pre-diabetes with diet and lifestyle from the highly qualified, specialist team of authors led by world Low GI authority Professor Jennie Brand-Miller.

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Paperback – 256 pp
Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9780733633379

Low GI Diet Shopper’s Guide 2015

Whether you eat paleo or gluten-free, high-carb, moderate or low, the Low GI Diet Shopper’s Guide gives you the tools and tips you need to choose the best carbs. Updated for 2015, this easy-to-use guide shows the GI values of your favourite foods and preferred brands and helps you identify healthier low-GI carbohydrate alternatives so that you can start making a difference to your diet. Included are:

  • User-friendly tables arranged by food category
  • A shopping list of low GI essentials

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Paperback – 224 pp
Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9780733632921

The Bump to Baby Diet

The Bump to Baby Diet shows you how to optimise your diet pre-conception, during pregnancy and once your baby has been born. It covers: why a low GI diet matters, healthy weight gain, the importance of blood glucose in pregnancy, why gestational diabetes is a big deal, and how you can put it all into practice along with 50 quick and easy recipes.

For more info go to www.bumptobabydiet.com

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Paperback – 336 pp
Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9780733628801

The Low GI Eating Plan for an Optimal Pregnancy

The Low GI Eating Plan for an Optimal Pregnancy shows you how to optimise your diet pre-conception, during pregnancy and once your baby has been born. It covers: why a low GI diet matters, healthy weight gain, the importance of blood glucose in pregnancy, why gestational diabetes is a big deal, and how you can put it all into practice along with 50 quick and easy recipes.

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Paperback – 336 pp
The Experiment
ISBN: 9780733628801

The Ultimate Guide to Sugars and Sweeteners

“In a world awash with nutritional dogma that’s loosely attached (if at all) to scientific facts, The Ultimate Guide to Sugars and Sweeteners provides sensible and truthful perspective. If you’re struggling to make sense of sugars, sweeteners, and health, this book belongs at the top of your reading list.”
Ted Kyle, RPh, MBA, Founder and Principal ConscienHealth, Chair of the Obesity Action Coalition

Perfect for foodies, bakers, carb counters, parents, chefs, and clinicians, this delightfully readable book features more than 180 alphabetical entries on natural and artificial sweeteners, including the usual suspects (table sugar, honey), the controversial (aspartame, high-fructose corn syrup), the hyped (coconut sugar, monk fruit sweetener), and the unfamiliar (Chinese rock sugar, isomaltulose). You’ll also find myth-busting Q&As, intriguing trivia, side-by-side comparisons of how sweeteners perform in classic baked goods, and info on food-additive regulations, dental health, the glycemic index, and more.

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Paperback – 280 pp
The Experiment
ISBN: 978 1 61519 216 8

Understanding Type 2 Diabetes

Professor Merlin Thomas and The Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute examine what diabetes is and how it comes about. The book describes the many practical changes you can make to your diet, while also looking at physical activity and the different ways exercise can be used to maintain and improve your health. It also explores the medical aspects of diabetes care, including the best ways to achieve control of your waistline, blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and how to avoid major complications. Individual chapters look at the effects of diabetes on the heart, vision, feet, kidneys, bladder, mind, mood, sleep and sex — all critically important areas for sufferers wanting to maintain optimum health.

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Paperback – 324 pp
Exisle Publishing
ISBN: 978 1 925335 55 2

Low GI Diet Diabetes Handbook

This book is a practical guide to help you manage your diabetes or pre-diabetes with diet and lifestyle. The authors show what you can do for yourself – and why. Best of all, this information is good advice for all members of your family, not just you.

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– 576 pp
Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9780733627828