Publisher's Synopsis
What is the single most important thing you can do for your health?
Avoiding "sugary" foods is a great start to a healthier you. But some foods (like French fries, breads, and cereals) quickly convert to sugar during digestion.
Knowing the glycemic values of the foods you eat puts you right on the cutting edge of your own healthcare. Glycemic values [Glycemic index (GI) and Glycemic load (GL)] show us how our bodies respond to different foods. This response is at the heart of an endless list of diseases -- and can guide us on a new path to optimum health.
The World Health Organization endorses using glycemic values in selecting foods, but many health professionals consider GI and GL too complicated to use in their clinical practice....It is easier to prescribe a pill for each symptom than to teach patients about this life-changing information.
This translates into not listing GI and GL values on our packaged food products and not including these important values in our national nutrient database files.
So it is up to the consumer to figure it out on their own.
In this groundbreaking guide, the first of its kind, Ms. Lickus brings you these key glycemic values just for foods born in CANADA.
As you read this book, you'll find detailed guidelines with clear, easy-to-understand examples that show you how you can use glycemic values to power your health to a new all-time-high, at any age. The benefits can be amazing - not only in treating or preventing serious illness, but in increasing your energy, losing extra weight for good, feeling simply awesome for life, and so much more.
CHEAT SHEET SIMPLY for CANADIAN FOODS provides a revolutionary layout of nutrition information for CANADIAN foods. This powerful, time-saving resource puts the glycemic values you need all in one place -- right at your fingertips. Here's how it works:
Five charts display over four hundred seventy five foods. Each chart is forty one pages long. Each chart organizes foods based on a specific feature of their effect on metabolism.
The unprecedented way these charts are organized is vital to your health because the CANADIAN foods that are healthiest for you are at the top of the first four charts! Building your meals around these foods will leave you feeling satisfied and simply amazed at how easy it is to is to reach your health and fitness goals.
You'll learn which CANADIAN foods have the least amount of carbs, the lowest glycemic index, the most fiber, and the lowest glycemic load. Glycemic load is important because it gives you guidance on how much of that food you can eat. But that's not all.
The fifth chart lists foods alphabetically and into basic food groups. This section makes it easy for you to compare and understand the way different preparation methods affect how your body processes carbohydrates...leading to better health.
Why wait half a century or even a couple of decades for glycemic values to finally make their way into the mainstream?
You can build a healthier body and mind starting right now!
