Professor Jennie Brand-Miller holds a Personal Chair in Human Nutrition in the School of Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. Her research interests focus on all aspects of carbohydrates-diet and diabetes, the glycemic index of foods, insulin resistance, lactose intolerance and oligosaccharides in infant nutrition. She holds a special interest in evolutionary nutrition and the diet of Australian Aborigines. She has published 16 books and 150 journal articles. Her books about the glycemic index, The New Glucose Revolution, are international best-sellers with more than 2 million in sales since 1996. The most recent title in the series, The Low GI Diet, was published in September 2004.
Jennie Brand-Miller
ISBN:9780733616044
Throughout the world, people are discovering that carbohydrates with a low glycemic index hold the key to health benefits in diabetes, heart disease and weight loss. Now it should be easy to make these valuable foods part of your diet with this A-Z guide to the "top 100 low GI foods". Discover which foods have the lowest GI values and why...more details Format:Paperback
Jennie Brand-Miller with co-authors: Kaye Foster-Powell, Stephen Colagiuri, Alan Barclay
Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world and is a contributing factor to the high rates of heart disease. It can also cause health problems related to blindness...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
Ever agonised over whether your kids are getting enough of the right kind of foods? Ever got to the end of another hard-won battle over vegies...more details Format:Paperback
The G.I. Factor has now been specially adapted for young people with diabetes. This fantastic guide discusses the issues that affect children from infancy through teen years...more details Format:Paperback
Eating to lose weight should be easier with low glysemic index foods because you don't have to go hungry. Not all foods are created equal when it comes to losing weight...more details Format:Paperback
THE LOW GI DIET is the safe and healthy way to lose weight with smart carbs. The authors of the worldwide bestselling series on the glycemic index...more details Format:Paperback
From the team that created Low GI eating and the bestselling Low GI Diet...100 Low GI Diet recipes from the authors, friends, family and key celebrity chefs to help you cook the healthy way to lose weight reliably and safely and keep it off...more details Format:Paperback
Low GI smart carbs are for everybody, every day, every meal.LOW GI EATING MADE EASY is about choosing and using the top 100 Low GI smart carb foods - the ones that produce only small fluctuations in your blood glucose levels - so that you feel fuller longer and increase your energy levels...more details Format:Paperback
Fully updated to include the latest GI Values and G symbol program participants for 2009! The GI tables, the comprehensive lists of foods and their GI values are the key to unlocking the fantastic health benefits of a low GI diet...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
The authors of the bestselling Low GI Diet series have often been asked ''what should I eat if I'm a vegetarian or vegan?'' In their definitive healthy vegetarian cookbook they give us the answers.
Part One includes:What you should eat? What essential fuels you need (protein...more details Format:Paperback
This handy companion to "The New Glucose Revolution" helps you choose the right amount and kind of carbohydrate foods for lifelong health and well-being. With seven-day meal plans and recipe ideas...more details Format:Paperback
The GI tables - the comprehensive lists of foods and their GI values - are the key to unlocking the fantastic health benefits of The New Glucose Revolution...more details Format:Paperback
The LOW GI DIET is the healthy, responsible and delicious way to lose weight for good. The diet is centred on a 12-week Action Plan which gives you all the information you need to start losing body fat - not water...more details Format:Paperback
An easy-to-understand guide with up-to-date
information, recipes, menu plans and tables for people
of all ages with coeliac disease. Paperback 288 pages Format:Paperback Pages:288
This pocket guide for children with type 1 diabetes gives special attention to matching food and insulin and providing detailed answers to the most frequently asked questions. It provides clear and reliable information about glucose control and the foods that will assist it...more details Format:Paperback
Research has revealed that food not only influences children's long-term health, but can crucially affect their temperament, energy levels and ability to concentrate. This guide aims to explain how low GI foods provide the sustained energy children need - for play...more details Format:Paperback
This handy guide shows how high carbohydrate diets enhance stamina and prevent fatigue. It offers practical suggestions and should be of interest to sports people who want to eat their way to better performance. It includes a quiz to help you assess your current eating habits...more details Format:Paperback
This guide looks at the latest findings about the effect of sugar on our health including diabetes, losing weight, behaviour and mental performance...more details Format:Paperback
Cardiovascular disease - heart, stroke or vascular disease - is the leading cause of death. Now a new 'silent' disease is also affecting us: the metabolic syndrome (sometimes called the insulin resistance syndrome or Syndrome X)...more details Format:Paperback
Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world and is a contributing factor to the high rates of heart disease. It can also cause health problems related to blindness...more details Format:Paperback Pages:576
Six to ten per cent of women of child-bearing age are affected by polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), a hormonal imbalance that can lead to infertility or reduced chance of achieving pregnancy...more details Format:Paperback
The 12-week plan for weight loss, good health and
wellbeing - the companion book to the NGR Low GI
Handbook. The Low GI Diet is the only science-based diet that is proven to help you lose weight and develop a lifetime of healthy eating habits to achieve optimum health and wellbeing and protect against illness and disease...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
Low GI eating has advantages for everyone-including healthy, growing children. By raising blood glucose and insulin levels more gradually and evenly (which means food is more filling)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
THE LOW GI HANDBOOK is the definitive guide for readers who want to understand the power of the glycemic index (GI) in their diet. This revised and updated edition...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
Fully updated to include new GI Values and G symbol program participants for 2006!The GI tables - the comprehensive lists of foods and their GI values - are the key to unlocking the fantastic health benefits of The New Glucose Revolution. In this new format the tables are easier to use than ever before. They include:A-Z listings for easy accessLow...more details Format:Paperback
Providing quick, clear information for those with type two diabetes, this volume explains how the glycemic index works in relation to carbohydrates and blood glucose levels. It also has concise menu plans for every meal...more details Format:Paperback
From the authors of the internationally bestselling New Glucose Revolution series, this is an indispensable guide for those who want clear, scientifically-based information about the connection between food...more details Format:Paperback
Eat yourself healthy and reduce your risk of heart disease with low-fat, high carbohydrate, high-fibre and low glysemic index foods. Modern medical research shows that foods like pastas...more details Format:Paperback