This unorthodox and inspiring book for diabetics and their families stresses the importance of diet in diabetes management. Dr. Juliano's positive prescription for living with diabetes is complemented by 145 recipes.
A 30-year diabetic, Juliano understands the importance of the diabetic's diet as well as human nature, which invariably tries to break that diet. The first portion of his book discusses how diabetics can deal with party, restaurant, and holiday foods and goes on to cover snacks, sweeteners and desserts, salads, vegetables, and fruits. The positive aspects of a healthy diet are stressed. Juliano teams up with veteran chef Young in the second half of the book, which is devoted to tasty, easy-to-follow recipes that list appropriate dietary exchanges, calories, fat, serving size, and so forth. While not a basic book that explains the use of exchange lists, this would be an excellent addition to the diabetic cookbook shelf. Recommended for informed readers.
Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.
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