Product Description: Written by the world's leading authorities on the glycemic index (GI), The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Peak Performance recommends what to eat to boost athletic performance, enhance stamina, and prevent fatigue. It presents success stories profiling athletes and others who have improved their performance by eating low—and high—GI foods at the appropriate times...read more

Arguing that sugar should not be avoided entirely, the author challenges common myths about sugar while sensibly discussing its role in blood sugar control, dental health, mental performance, and weight loss. Original.

Explains how to use glycemic index values in making daily food decisions, and provides the GI value, glycemic load, carbohydrate, fiber and fat content for 100 foods with the lowest GI values.

A comprehensive annual reference for GI-aware consumers provides food values for more than five hundred popular grocery and dining-out foods, from fruits and vegetables to beverages and desserts, in a resource that provides a glycemic index and a guide to food labeling. Original.

Completely revised, updated, and expanded to include the latest information, an essential guide describes the negative effects of carbohydrates on blood sugar; emphasizes the importance of maintaining blood glucose control; includes tables of glycemic-index values for nearly 800 foods; and much more. Original.

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Provides answers to the most frequently asked questions about blood glucose levels and discusses a vast array of concerns, dispelling common myths and furnishing readers with valuable information that will help them monitor and control their glucose levels to optimize lifelong health. Original.