This invaluable book is based on a nutritional approach to good health. It shows you how you can lose weight, improve your overall health, increase your energy level, reduce food cravings, and reduce your risk of cancer and diabetes just by making a few changes to the sort of foods that you eat. The core of this approach is the glycemic index (GI). This is a measure of how quickly the energy from a carbohydrate is absorbed into the bloodstream. If the energy from a food is absorbed quickly it has a high GI, if it is absorbed more slowly it has a low GI. Eating a large amount of high-GI foods is not recommended if you want to lose weight, lower your cholesterol, or increase your energy level. Low-GI foods, or good carbs, on the other hand are known to have beneficial effects on our overall health and aid in weight loss. So if you're trying to lose weight, out go white bread and baked potatoes and in come most fruit and vegetables, legumes, and basmati rice. In this book nutritionist Rachael Anne Hill shows us how to cut down on those quick energy release foods, as well as saturated fats, and how to replace them with a healthy, good-carb diet based on low-GI foods, unsaturated fats, low-fat proteins, and fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. This is a nutritionally sound approach, which has none of the dangers of many of the low-carb diets that are popular today. Rachael then offers a huge selection of easy, delicious recipes for breakfasts, lunchboxes and snacks, quick lunches and suppers, and entertaining dishes, all of which take only 20 minutes or less to prepare. The High-Energy Cookbook explains in clear language why eating the good-carb, low-GI way is beneficial to everyone, not just those who want to lose weight. It gives lots of practical advice on how to incorporate this approach into your daily diet, whether it's what to buy in the supermarket or what to choose when faced with a restaurant menu. With over 60 low-GI, low-fat recipes, there is plenty of inspiration for cooking the healthy way every day. Book jacket.