description: Eating the right foods in the proper order leads to pleasurable and healthy living, promises Michel Montignac, in The French Diet. His urgent message to Americans: scrap the USDA Food Guide Pyramid and embrace the Glycemic Index (GI)--a standard ranking system he uses to separate "good" carbohydrates from "bad," based on how quickly foods release glucose into the bloodstream. Montignac theorizes that pairing low-GI foods with good fat (like olive oil), and eating foods in a specific order, is a habit that the famously lean French have long practiced. Says Montignac, this diet is neither low-carb nor low-fat; instead, it is "the right-carb and the right-fat diet."
language: English
title: French Diet: The Secrets of Why French Women Don't Get Fat
titlecomplete: French Diet: The Secrets of Why French Women Don't Get Fat
genres: Nonfiction, Food, Cookbooks
ratings_count: 201
publisher: DK Publishing