The Glycemic Load Counter: A Pocket Guide to GL and GI Values for over 800 Foods Paperback – June 28, 2008

Handy resource

For one who lives with hypoglycemia, I am happy to find this small but useful guide, laid out in clear terms, to use as a confirmation and check against all the labels I need to read to avoid pushing blood sugar levels up. I do not carry it with me (although it is listed as a pocket guide), because a full browsing of the book,gave me enough lead to understand components which 'load',to wake up to risks, and to shake up so far 'avoided' measures on fats, too ! Those latter percentages alongside, are an added bonus. My food shopping is much less vague, so sneaky carbs which turn to glucose etc, have less opportunity to affect my days and energies.While I appreciate the little book (selected from among others more detailed), I do not,though, appreciate the tripling of costs for postage and packing from America. The item may be received in perfect order, but the original oost info is grossly misleading. Watch out - you'd never pay that total in shop !

Great

So this is a great basic compact guide to have in your bag if you are shopping or out and about as a guide to help you make healthier food choices.But sadly it didn't work so well for me. Firstly the health advice in the front is outdated. The book advocates a low-fat diet with avoidance of saturated fats and basing your meals on starchy foods, which the research is now showing us not to be the best way to eat.Secondly, unlike previous diet guide books I've bought, other than covering fruit, veg, and meat the book does not include many basic ingredients, so if you are doing a lot of cooking from scratch very few of your pantry ingredients are covered by the book. It talks about loaves of bread but not the constituent parts of a loaf. Equally, it talks about muffins and cakes but not the ingredients that you would use to make them like all of the different flours now on the market or the different sources of fats or sugar.As another example, the milk section covers dairy & soy but not the range of other alternative kinds of milk now on the market.So if you eat lots of processed foods this book is great but if you are a good home cook you'll need to get a different book to help you learn about the GL of your ingredients.

I am a diabetic and are having problems regulating my blood sugar. It was recommended to me to use the Glycemic Index and stay within the correct numbers in order to improve my blood sugar levels. This is a handy book which gives a breakdown of all the foods that I eat so I can do a better job and improve my overall health.

Not worth the bother, portion sizes are unrealistic, there is a whole section on spices which with large portion sizes (who would ever eat that much cinnamon??) The protein section has GI counts for raw meat; as if anyone would eat a raw fish stick! I could not find the foods I was looking for. Completely useless

Very good starter book for possible new diabetics. Bought this for my husband . It was recommended by a friend.

The writer made it easy on herself by not including portion sizes with each entry. There is a brief section on portions at the beginning, but it is too long to memorize. I have to keep referring back to it. It has every meat and fish ,which I already knew are zero if not breaded, but only 4 soups. It has only 2 kinds of dried beans. So very disappointing.