Power Foods for Diabetes: The Top 20 Foods and 150 Recipes for Total Health

by Cooking Light, American Diabetes Association

Overview

Eating healthy when you have diabetes can be a challenge. Luckily, Cooking Light teamed up with the American Diabetes Association to offer a solution: Power Foods for Diabetes, a cookbook filled with delicious recipes for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.


Home cooks will discover more than 150 great-tasting dishes featuring heart healthy, high fiber, disease-fighting ingredients such as leafy greens, whole grains, beans, and omega-3 fish. This indispensable collection covers mains, sides, salads, breads, snacks, and even desserts, all tested and perfected by the experts at Cooking Light. Each recipe follows ADA's dietary guidelines and is guaranteed to be low in calories, cholesterol, saturated fat, and sodium.


Both a cookbook and a handy reference, Power Foods for Diabetes includes valuable advice from Registered Dietitian Jackie Mill on healthy cooking methods, grocery shopping strategies, and how to plan meals using exchange systems and carb counting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780594062745
Publisher:	TI Inc. Books
Publication date:	09/29/2015
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	314,739
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Jackie Mills(writer) is the author of 1,000 Diabetes Recipes (Wiley, 2011; BookScan: 2057) and The Big Book of Diabetic Desserts (American Diabetes Association, October 2007; BookScan: 7095). Jackie was the recipe developer for American Medical Association Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook (Meredith, 2005; BookScan: 7459). She contributed recipes to Low-Sugar Baking (Publications International, 2007; BookScan: n/a) and to two volumes of Taste of Home Diabetic Cookbook (Publications International, 2006, 2008; BookScan: n/a). She was the nutrition consultant for The Kitchen Diva's Diabetic Cookbook by Angela Shelf Medearis (Andrews McMeel, 2012; BookScan: 626).

She is a frequent contributor to The DX: The Diabetes Experience, the consumer website for people with diabetes sponsored by the pharmaceutical company, Sanofi. Jackie also creates diabetes and heart-healthy content for promotional materials for Merck.

Jackie has worked as a cookbook editor for Weight Watchers International for more than five years, serving as editor for a dozen books. She has developed recipes for the American Heart Association, the American Institute for Cancer Research, and many national magazines including Better Homes and Gardens, Cooking Light, Family Circle, Cottage Living, Country Home, Cooking Pleasures, and Coastal Living. She was the food editor at Redbook magazine and worked as an associate food editor at Southern Living magazine.

Jackie lives in Jackson Heights (Queens), New York. She was born and raised in Kentucky and has roamed the South, living in Alabama, Florida, Texas, and Maryland and understands the challenges of finding delicious recipes the entire family will enjoy.