Pregnancy is a stage in life when the carbohydrates in food play a starring role. This is because your averge blood glucose level throughout the day is directly correlated with your baby's growth rate in the womb. Studies have shown that being overweight when pregnant can increase your risk of gestational diabetes and can also lead to health problems for your child, including childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes. In this practical book, the Low GI team of experts explain how to optimize your diet - pre-conception, during pregnancy, and once your child has been born to insure a healthy baby and a healthy mon. It's all about choosing the right foods to ensure the safe growth of your baby while avoiding excessive weight gain. Part One of The Low GI Pregnancy Plan helps you adopt a healthy lifestyle to improve fertility. Part Two discusses what to be aware of once you're eating for two, how to ensure your wieght gain is healthym the importance of blood sugars in gregnancy and why gestational diabetes is a big deal. Part THree highlights the importance of breastfeeding and introducing solids while Part Four shows you howto put everything into practice with the eight guiding principles of the low-GI diet for pregnancy, including exercise tips and will help you select the best foods to eat, and the ones to avoid.

Part Five, the final section, complements the earlier sections with 50 quick and easy recipes, making this book the ideal resource for anyone who want s to enjoy the benefits of a low-GI lifestyle Reducing the GI of your diet is one of the safest and most effictive ways of ensuring that your baby grows at the optimum rate without you gaining excessive body fat. The Low GI Pregnancy Plan is the only low GI diet book specifically for pregnancy written by internationally recognized scientists qualified in nutrition dietetics and diabetes, and at the cutting edge of research on carbohydrates, and GI and Pregnancy. By gaining a better understanding of the connection between food, maternal bolld glucose levels and their baby's future health, readers can beat excessive weitht gain, without comprimising nutritionm during this important stage of life.