The GI Diet, Rick Gallop

The GI Diet: The Easy, Healthy Way to Permanent Weight Loss - Rick Gallop, Virgin Books, 208 pages (January 6, 2005). ISBN:0753509180

Title & Author:	The GI Diet Rick Gallop
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"[The GI Diet] is a diet that most nutritionists and dieticians actually like... At last, here's a diet that's popular with the media but still follows basic healthy eating guidelines!" - Juliette Kellow BSc SRD

The GI in The GI Diet stands for Glycemic Index.  Have you found single-food diets unsustainable? Are you worried about that the Dr Atkins might be unhealthy? Then you need a science best on the best science and nutritional advice. The HI diet is based on nutritional research begun 25 years ago by the nutritionist researcher Dr David Jenkins. Since, then, low GI diets have been found to be helpful in curing diabetes and protecting against heart disease. This work has been conducted by hundreds of top scientific researchers around the world. These researchers also found that the GI Diet was an excellent way to lose weight. Unlike Atkins, it is not just the brain-child of Rick Gallop alone.  Rick Gallop's contribution was to make this important work understandable to the layman who wants to apply the nutritional advice to their everyday diet. 

The Glycemic Index measures how quickly people digest carbohydrates and absorb them into the bloodstream. Foods with a high GI rating release glucose rapidly, causing insulin production to explode and store the glucose as fat. Even worse, because glucose leaves the bloodstream, you feel hungry again. 

Low-GI rated foods release glucose slowly into the bloodstream and, therefore, insulin production also slows down. This means sugars remain in the bloodstream, are not stored as fat, and you don't feel hungry. The essence of the GI diet is to avoid high-GI rated foods and eat low-GI rated foods. Fortunately, there are many tasty low-GI foods--including oats, beans, barley and most fruits and vegetables.

The GI diet is not just about carbohydrates. Although the Glycemic Index only relates to carbohydrates, Rick Gallop makes sure the GI diet covers all the major food groups and other aspects of nutrition.  For instance, he differentiates fats into the familiar saturated (bad), unsaturated (good) and polyunsaturated (best).

Rick Gallop has built a compete lifestyle plan into the GI diet (e.g. exercise is included). He introduces an introductory weight-loss diet followed by a  maintenance diet. So, like other modern diet plans, the GI diet is a diet plan for life. But the GI diet is much less onerous and restrictive than the Atkins Diet. 

Many foods are listed along with their GI rating. Useful, easy recipes and exercise suggestions are included. The exercise ideas are scientifically based and not designed to fill the coffers of your local health club (e.g. brisk walking is one recommendation). 

Rick Gallop says the GI diet worked for him and everyone he persuaded to "have a go". The book includes several highly positive testimonials from these satisfied users.

• The GI Diet - Rick Gallop presents a scientifically based diet that is well worth trying.