Sugarfree New Orleans: A Cookbook Based on the Glycemic Index

A cookbook that follows the guidelines of the best selling "Sugar Busters " (tm) diet. It also follows the Glycemic Index and includes a copy and description of how the index works. This is a wonderful cookbook for anyone on the "Sugar Busters!" (tm) diet or just trying to watch their sugar intake.

Author Deanie Comeaux Bahan started reworking favorite New Orleans recipes for her husband Mark, a diabetic heart patient, who had been hospitalized. His blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides were sky high.

"If you take care of the sugar," Deanie told her husband, "Your body can take care of the fat." Skeptical about Deanie's sugar-free idea, he agreed to try. Four weeks later, Mark returned to the hospital for blood work. His blood sugar dropped from 500+ to 98; his cholesterol once 400+ was now 144; and triglycerides went from over 700 to 72. "It worked!"

Neither doctor nor nutritionist, Deanie Comeaux Bahan set out to compile her recipes in a book based on the most recent research she could find about the Glycemic Index. (The body's glycemic response is the rate at which it converts foods to blood sugar.) "I wanted to help New Orleanians and others remain true to their sugarfree diets, without having to sacrifice the foods that have made our city famous," the new author said. Most of the recipes can be modified for low-fat diets as well.

Today Deanie's husband is proud of his accomplishments and of hers for she is the successful author of a new cookbook that can't be printed fast enough: Sugarfree New Orleans: A Cookbook Based on the Glycemic Index (1997). Bahan's next book, Sugarfree Quick and Easy will be available in August, 1998.