The Ultimate Guide to Accurate Carb Counting: Featuring the Tools and Techniques Used by the Experts (Marlowe Diabetes Library)
Whether you’re following a diet plan that requires carb-counting, you have diabetes, or simply because you are conscious of the quantity of carbs you consume, The Ultimate Guide to Accurate Carb Counting is the all-in-one resource for practically and effectively managing your carb intake. Certified diabetes educator, type 1 diabetic, and Think Like a Pancreas author Gary Scheiner focuses on carb counting in a real-world context, and his explanations and advice–in addition to being complete and thoroughly accurate–are geared towards the most common foods and eating habits. The Ultimate Guide to Accurate Carb Counting tells you everything you need to accurately keep track of your carb intake, including the basic rationale for and the theory behind carb-counting, as well as explanations of simple to advanced techniques; how to read and understand food labels, and how to estimate the nutritional values of unlabelled foods; resources for carb counting at major restaurant chains; an explanation of the glycemic index and its influence on carb-counting; adjusting for fiber and sugar substitutes; and a comprehensive listing of nutrient data for 2,500 foods, including carb and fiber values, exchanges, carb factors, and glycemic index values.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Great reference book
Not a book you need to read cover to cover, although you could. Very helpful to people both new at carb counting and vets. I continue to go back to it months after I purchased it.
5 Stars Diabetes textbook
Excellent book to help control a serious health problem: Diabetes
GOOD SERVICE ON THE PART OF THE SHIPPER!
5 Stars guide to accurate barb counting
I thought this book was very good because it listed most of the resturant that we go to and it gives us the inforamtion on the food that we eat that counts carb. You do not find this listed very often at the resturant they forget to tell us.
2 Stars Too much junk food!
The description of this book should clearly state that a huge part of this book is about restaurant and processed food. Since I almost never eat out and never eat at chain restaurants, that part (about half) was not of any value. I would have preferred that the list of whole foods be more exhaustive.
1 Stars Disapointed
I bought this book with the thought it would be easy to follow. I guess I was just looking for food carb counts, but this book had too much stuff I didn’t need to know. Should of sent it back.
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