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The Whole Foods Diabetic Cookbook | 
 enlarge | Authors: Patricia Bertron, Patricia Leshane, Michael Cook, Patricia Stevenson
Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 451217
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 159
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 7.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 157067129X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.56314
EAN: 9781570671296
Publication Date: March 2002
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Product Description
Try the whole foods route for a natural way to manage diabetes. Learn to make informed choices on nutrition with emphasis on the health advantages of a plant-based diet. Sections include an overview of diabetes, how to meet nutrient needs, the importance of diet and exercise, and easy recipes to add more meatless meals to menu plans. And this is food the whole family will enjoy: fruit smoothies, hearty salads, easy soups and sandwiches, burgers, stir-frys, tacos, veggie pot pies, and even guilt-free chocolate layer cake. Includes exchange lists for meal planning, and shopping and cooking tips.
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 its vegan and yummy January 19, 2008
I am not diabetic but was looking for a cook book that had recipes that were low on the glycemic index. This is an awesome book for beginning vegetarians (like me) who want healthy recipes without a lot of ingredients. I also like this book because it has recipes for a lot of foods I want to keep eating like french toast. I highly recommend this book. It is also a great way to eat if you want to lose weight. In the first two weeks of eating whole vegetarian foods I lost 5 lbs and my partner lost 8 lbs.
 Shades of incense and macrobiotics! November 30, 2005
37 out of 47 found this review helpful
I am a practicing vegetarian, and purchased this book when my annual tests showed an alarming trend toward borderline pre-diabetes. Even vegetarians can develop unhealthy eating habits adn need to learn better!
I was disappointed in this cookbook, however. This is the kind of cookbook that was popular back in the 80's when American vegetarianism was all about brown rice, whole wheat flour, tofu and tempeh. These are fine and valuable components of a healthy veggie diet, but we've come a long way since in terms of aesthetics and variety.
For example, is it really necessary to make french toast with tofu instead of milk and eggs? Or to add crumbled tofu to potato salad? I have a real problem with those who take a perfectly fine, nutritious and proven food item and make gratuitious additions of tofu and tempeh, just because. And I was very surprised to note that this cookbook does not cover the proper techniques for preparing tofu for cooking, because a truly well-prepared tofu dish can be quite delicious and possess interesting texture.
The techiques and concepts in this book are just too dated and limited to appeal to today's informed cook, vegetarian or otherwise. If you are looking to add vegetarian meals to your diet or to better understand your vegetarian diabetic nutrition, you can do better than this book. I recommend the American Diabetic Association Month of Meals 'Vegetarian Pleasures' for a more up to date, equally nutritional approach.
Recipes are simple and easy to follow September 8, 2002
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Controlling diabetes goes beyond reducing sugar intake: it also involves staying healthy by reducing fat and increasing exercise. Whole Foods Diabetic Cookbook promotes a vegetarian diet high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans and is especially valuable for its tips on how to juggle diabetic needs with vegetarian perspectives. Recipes are simple and easy to follow.
An imaginative and diabetically sound approach June 6, 2002
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Enhanced with information on diabetes and nutrition by Patricia Berton, The Whole Foods Diabetic Cookbook by Patricia Stevenson and Michael Cook offers an imaginative and diabetically sound approach to using whole grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruit in a culinary wealthy of meat-free recipes, each designed to help control diabetes naturally. The reader is provided with an informative overview of diabetes and how to control diabetes through diet and exercise, along with an invaluable section on meeting the nutrient needs of the diabetic including fiber in the diet, counting calories, carbs, protein and fat, as the vegetarian diet with respect to minerals and vitamins. Of special interest is the information provided on exchange lists for meal planning, as well as cooking and shopping tips. The delicious, palate pleasing, appetite satisfying recipes range from Strawberry Muffins; Tofu Potato Salad; and Vegetable Fried Rice; to Falafel; Broccoli-Mushroom Casserole; and Apple-Oat Drop Cookies. The Whole Foods Diabetic Cookbook is a strongly recommended addition to the cookbook collection for diabetics.
Simple, Easy, Tasty Recipes October 9, 2000
53 out of 53 found this review helpful
I turn to this cookbook regularly. Whether I'm cooking for myself, for company, or for a potluck dinner, I can always find something good *and* easy in its pages. The Far East Fried Rice recipe is now my standard (and much-complimented) potluck dish, and several others, including the Easy Lentil Stew, are regulars in my kitchen. Although I was a meat eater and therefore not used to vegetarian cooking when I bought this book, I never found the recipes to call for ingredients I couldn't find at my regular grocery store, or thought that the end products were anything less than delicious. This is more than just a cookbook -- the helpful discussion of nutrition and diabetes at the beginning of the book makes it a good reference, too -- but the recipes are really what makes it special. The cooking directions are brief but thorough and easy to follow. Also, because I am now a vegan, I greatly appreciate the simple and tasty recipes for making alternatives to standard cheese dishes. Whether you are a vegetarian/vegan or not, whether you need to follow a diabetic diet or not, I recommend this cookbook highly.
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