Are you living with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes and trying to manage your condition? In Australia and New Zealand alone diabetes and pre-diabetes affect 1 in 4 people. Every day nearly 300 people, including children, develop type 2 diabetes and for every person diagnosed with diabetes there's someone else with undiagnosed diabetes. The good news is that we now know a lot more about managing diabetes or reducing your risk of developing it. LOW GI DIET: 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. This book 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. It shows what you can do for yourself - and why. Best of all, this information is good advice for everyone in your family, not just you.

- Major addition to NY Times best-selling series: The New Glucose Diabetes Revolution is an important addition to the best-selling New Glucose Revolution series, which has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. An unprecedented, comprehensive guide to the utility of the glycemic index in the dietary management of diabetes, this should become an instant classic on the shelf. - A revolution more than twenty-five years in the making: Since the initial development of the glycemic index in 1980, the authors' and others' medical research has steadily confirmed how making low-GI food choices is a vital dietary tool in managing diabetes. This is in direct opposition to using a dietary system of carbohydrate exchanges to control diabetes, which for years had been advocated by medical organizations. Wholly unique among diabetes books, The New Glucose Diabetes Revolution presents, for the first time, the authoritative guide to using the GI to manage diabetes conditions. - Glycemic index widely and increasingly endorsed for people with diabetes: The GI is endorsed in clinical dictary guidelines by the Joslin Diabetes Center and by many prominent international diabetes organizations. In its clinical practice recommendations for 2006, the American Diabetes Association noted the benefit of the glycemic index for the first time. - A scientifically proven treatment road map: The book features the latest, most accurate information with new findings by the authors. Includes GI-based recipes and menus for type 1, type 2, prediabetes, gestational diabetes, and juvenile diabetes, as well as related conditions like obesity and celiac disease, plus practical dietary guidance on sugar, sweeteners, alcohol, snacking, and eating out.

A practical, easy-to-use guide to help you manage type 2 diabetes or prediabetes If you are one of the millions of people living with diabetes or prediabetes, you may feel like you're inundated with information on how to manage your condition. The good news is that we now know a lot more about managing diabetes or reducing your risk of developing it--and here, the world's foremost glycemic index experts share their wisdom. Rather than blind you with science or swamp you with facts, Everything You Need to Know to Manage Type 2 Diabetes sets out clearly and simply what you need to eat and do to help you: Reduce your risk of developing diabetes Improve your insulin sensitivity and your cardiovascular health Keep your blood glucose levels, blood pressure, and blood fats under control Reduce your body fat and maintain a healthy body With tips and strategies for working with your doctor, the most recent info on medications, and guidance on the best foods to eat (at home or at a restaurant), Everything You Need to Know to Manage Type 2 Diabetes offers uncomplicated, straightforward advice to help you survive--and thrive.