Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D., one of the world's leading authorities on carbohydrates and the glycemic index, has championed the GI approach to nutrition for more than twenty-five years. Professor of nutrition at the University of Sydney and the president of the Nutrition Society of Australia, Dr. Brand-Miller was recently awarded Australia's prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Award for her commitment to advancing science and technology. She is one of the world's most in-demand speakers on the GI, and her laboratory at the University of Sydney is the world's foremost GI-testing center. Professor Brand-Miller is coauthor of the books in the internationally bestselling New Glucose Revolution series, which has more than 3.5 million copies in print worldwide.

Kaye Foster-Powell, M. Nutr. & Diet. , an accredited dietitian-nutritionist with extensive experience in diabetes management, is the coauthor, with Dr. Brand-Miller and Fiona Atknison, of the author of the authoritative tables of GI and glycemic load values published in Diabetes Care . Foster-Powell is also coauthor with Brand-Miller of the more than fifteen books in the internationally bestselling New Glucose Revolution series. Fiona Atkinson is a research dietician and the manager of the University of Sydney's Glycemic Index research Service (SUGiRS). Along with Jennie Brand-Miller and Kaye Foster-Powell, she is the author of the authoritative tables of GI and glycemic load values published in Diabetes Care .

She is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Sydney focusing on the glycemic index. www.glycemicindex.com www.ginews.blogspot.

com.