Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies - Softcover

Rubin, Alan L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764552309 ISBN 13: 9780764552304

Publisher: For Dummies, 2000

Synopsis

Millions of people worldwide live with the word "diabetes" as a part of their daily routines. One of the major weapons in a person's lifelong battle against complications of the disease is the ability to choose. You can choose to exercise every day. You can choose to take your medications. Perhaps your most effective resource is your skill at making the right food choices. The consequences of following the right diet are immediate and enormous.

The Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies is both a cookbook that shows you how to prepare good-for-you, good-tasting foods in your own home and a guide to eating out in restaurants and fast-food places. With this invaluable resource, you also can load up on information on

• Getting real with a healthy lifestyle
• Shopping with a meal plan in mind
• Deciphering mysterious food labels
• Getting to the meat of menu matters
• Deserting a ban on desserts
• Knowing all about restaurant fare
• Setting a good example for the young ones

Sixteen pages of colorful cuisine complement more than 100 imaginative and appetizing recipes in this inspiring reference, a book that brings you the good word – and delicious dishes – from great chefs and respected dieticians. Author Dr. Alan Rubin, a leading expert in diabetes treatment, shares his pioneering spirit about the disease that doesn't have to be disabling. With the Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, you can discover the place of diet in a complete program of diabetes care.

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Review

If you or a family member has diabetes, food preparation may seem like a chore or a deprivation. What can you cook that tastes good and fits the diabetes guidelines? The authors of Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies, diabetes expert Alan Rubin (who also wrote Diabetes for Dummies) and registered dietician Fran Stach, have come up with dishes that will please not just the person with diabetes but the whole family. The diabetes diet is healthy for all of us, and if we can make it taste good, we all benefit.

That's where this book shines. The 112 recipes are as creative and tasty as they are healthy, yet most take a half hour or less of preparation (plus cooking time). Recipes include Soy Waffles, Crispy Corn French Toast, Portobello Paté, Carrot Soup with Leek and Blood Orange, Mango Tortilla Salad, Oriental Beef and Noodle Salad, and Spaghetti Squash with Fresh Basil, plus a variety of fish, meat, and poultry entrées. Some of the recipes were created by chef Denise Sharf; others were contributed by gourmet restaurants. All recipes include nutritional information: calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, fiber, sodium, and exchanges.

Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies is more than a compilation of recipes. The book also gives guidelines for "what, when, and how much" to eat, including tips for visualizing portions (an ounce of meat is the size of a matchbox; an ounce of cheese is the size of a domino; a medium potato is the size of a computer mouse). You'll get shopping and cooking tips and illustrated food-preparation steps to help novice cooks.

Like the whole For Dummies line, the style is simple, friendly, clever, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, such as, "Don't go to a paint store and expect to get thinner there." -- Joan Price

From the Publisher

Delicious deabetes-friendly recipes created by top chefs from around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0764552309
• ISBN 13: 9780764552304
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424