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The Glycaemic Load (GL) gives you the whole story:

• The GL allows you to understand with confidence how foods will affect your blood glucose levels.

• The GL is based on carbohydrates in the portion sizes we usually eat, rather than the amount needed in a laboratory setting to work out the GI.

• The GL means far more food choices.

• The GL makes practical sense of the GI science. It’s the final chapter in carbohydrate management and offers a real solution to weight loss.

There’s one other thing that can affect the GL of a food. Let’s get a reality check here. We don’t often eat single foods at a time. When we eat a meal there’s going to be a mixture of different kinds of foods, each with a different GL – so what happens then? Eating a food with a fairly high GL, such as white rice, could cause the spike in blood sugars we mentioned earlier. To avoid this you have two options. You can simply swap it for one of the recommended alternative lower-GL foods, like pearl barley. Alternatively you can just cut down the amount of it you eat and combine it with lower-GL foods, such as lentils or beans. This will give you a lower overall GL score for that meal. You can do this with all kinds of foods, which is one of the main reasons why the GL Diet is so flexible and fits in with the real world.

So now you understand:

• how our bodies deal with the food we eat.

• that high-GL foods perpetuate a vicious cycle of hunger and cravings.

• that the GL of a food is a more realistic measure of its effect on the body.

• that low-GL foods = more slowly absorbed = less hunger and less fat storage = weight loss.

Brilliantly simple, hurrah!!

All you need to do is read through the rest of the book and start enjoying healthy, low-GL foods, losing weight – and best of all, be able to keep it off forever as the GL Diet quickly becomes a way of life.

As serial dieters, we are all searching for our own elusive ‘diet freedom’ or ‘freedom from diets’. The GL finally brings this within everyone’s grasp without deprivation or hunger.

‘I started with the GI, but found it contradictory and really confusing, then a friend told me about GL and I bought the book. I liked the fact that it’s based on the GI but it makes more sense to me by taking the amount of carbs you eat into account.’

Christine from Bournemouth

‘I was already GI-ing before GL-ing but it made a difference to me in that I lost the last half a stone I needed to.’ Caz from Rainham

‘When I followed a low-GI diet, I really overate on pasta, which I now know has a high GL. Plus I was afraid of watermelon, which I love. Now I know watermelon is okay and it was ridiculous to avoid it. Those are just two minor examples of why I think GL is better! There are many more. I find the more I read the more I can apply my new knowledge to the way I eat. I’m so grateful for finding this new way of eating!’

Sheryl from California, USA

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