- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Kyle Cathie (26 Jan 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856266621
- ISBN-13: 978-1856266628
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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BBC Good Food Magazine, February issue 05
"over 100 tempting dishes"
Daily Express, 25th January 2006
Follow Antony Worrall Thompson's new GL diet for a fitter future.
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Grains and flours contain significant amounts of carbohydrate, which should be our main source of energy (see page 14). Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Grains and flours contain significant amounts of carbohydrate, which should be our main source of energy (see page 14). Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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89 of 90 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wozzer has done it again - I was running out of recipes from his GI Diet book and was very happy to see this new book at my local Waitrose last week...
A wider range of foods, and bigger portion sizes are covered in this book vs. the GI book. The photography is great and the recipes are delicious - lots of herbs and spices used, not too strict on oils and fats so your stomach won't believe you're dieting! Have dropped 6 kilos in just over a month and haven't felt deprived once...
I would actually give it 4.5 stars if the rating system allowed as once again there are a couple of things that could be improved:
- not enough info on preparation and cooking times (especially important in a book that sometimes advocates using dried pulses rather than canned ones... so factor in overnight soaking and cooking!). There are super-quick recipes too thouugh.
- many of the recipes cater for 4-6 people. There are just 2 of us at home which means either dividing up ingredient quantities or eating each recipe over several meals. They are yummy though...
- finally the recipes are grouped by ingredient type (grains, pulses, desserts etc.) rather than by meal type (breakfast, dinner, snack) as in the GI book. Personally I preferred the latter.
All in all a fab book (buy the GI one too) if you love your food and find most diet food torture to eat, you'll get along with this eating plan.
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
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Great book , appetising pictures , nice recipes which use easily available ingredients and larger portions than patrick holford or nigel denby. However some contradiction with both patrick holford and nigel denby viewpoints on gl value of some foods. Some recipes do contain sugar in various forms other fast carb foods(rice) and as the gl of the recipes is not given , I am a little dubious that they are low gl. He seems to advocate watching the calories rather than the gl of foods and cites this as one of the reasons for not calculating gl of the recipes. A Little dissapointing overall as does not lend itself to using recipes with other gl diet plans.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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.
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