This book gives an overview of the G.I. Diet (based on the glycemic index, which measures how quickly different foods turn to sugar when metabolized), but it's primarily a recipe book. If you want to know about the G.I. Diet in more detail, read the author's first book, "The G.I. Diet." However, you don't need that book to make use of this one. All you need to understand is the red light (BAD), yellow light (OK in small amounts) and green light (GOOD) ratings of the foods. There is nothing magical or faddish about G.I. ratings -- whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and lean meat and nonfat dairy is good for you; fatty meat, starch, sugar, and highly processed white flour is bad for you. This is a diet you should switch to permanently if you want to lose weight and keep it off.

The trick, even with a healthy, sensible, scientific diet, is to find enough food you like to keep eating it forever. One of the complaints about Gallup's first book was that there were not enough recipes, so he put together this book, which is full of recipes that use green light foods (with sparing amounts of yellow light foods, and even the occasional touch of a forbidden red light ingredient). These recipes are GOOD. Everything is covered from simple basics like sandwiches, salads, and breakfast staples to pasta, meat, and vegetarian entrees, stews, smoothies, and desserts. You could go a long, long time preparing nothing but recipes from this book without getting repetitive, and you'll find that a lot of the same basic ingredients are used over and over (stock up on whole wheat pasta, beans, fruits and vegetables, apples and berries, nonfat yogurt, fish, chicken and turkey breast).

You don't need to be "following the G.I. diet" to use this book. These are healthy recipes, so if you use them, you WILL be following the G.I. diet and eating healthy. Since a lot of the recipes were submitted by readers of his first book, there is a very "homemade" feel to them -- these aren't fancy recipes requiring exotic ingredients or advanced kitchen skills. Anyone with a kitchen and a decent local grocery store can prepare just about anything in this book.

For people who want to eat healthy but need variety (who wants to eat tuna on whole wheat toast or plain chicken breast with brown rice and broccoli day after day?), but don't have the time or skills to learn a new cooking style, I highly recommend this book.

I finally learned the truth about healthy eating. After incorporating the suggestions from the book, I started to feel better and my weight stabilized and started to drop. Moreover, I'm eating healthy foods.

What I read about the contents of this book was misleading to me.

It's a cookbook! I don't cook!!

It would be cost prohibitive to purchase all the ingredients and way too much time would be consumed if one did want to cook.

First book I've ever returned to Amazon.

Finally, an easy way to follow the low glycemic way of eating. The color coding makes it very easy to plan menus and the many recipes are easy to follow and very tasty.

I would recommend this book not only for losing weight but for anyone who wants to follow a healthier way of eating.

The book is written in plain, easy English. It is a guide to a healthy way of life, not just another fad diet. I give the author to this book kudos for a job well done!