The Low Glycemic Load Diet
By Dr. Rob Thompson
McGraw Hill (NYP)

Dr. Rob Thompson, author of The New Low-Carb Way of Life, has now written The Low Glycemic Load Diet.  He has discovered a way to lose weight without dieting or strenuous exercise using two groundbreaking concepts to overcome insulin resistance: glucose shock ratings and slow-twitch muscle fiber activation.   

Researchers who developed the glycemic indexes popularized by The South Beach Diet and Sugarbusters warned against using these measurements without adjusting for the amounts people typically eat.  Correcting this oversight as Dr. Thompson does with his “glucose shock ratings” puts a dramatically new face on low carb eating, making it simpler and easier to sustain--easy enough for people not endowed with unusual willpower to continue for life.   

Recently, scientists have discovered that insulin resistance arises from a genetic variant in the way muscles burn fuel involving a type of muscle fiber called a “slow-twitch” fiber.  What is remarkable about these fibers is that they work without creating a sense of fatigue.  The best example is our main breathing muscle, the diaphragm.  It works continuously without our even noticing.  Dr. Thompson shows us how by activating slow-twitch muscle fibers we can relieve insulin resistance and lose weight without strenuous exercise.   

His book also shows readers how to avoid the diet wrecking metabolic slowdown that kicks in a week or two after shedding pounds too rapidly (as in the induction phases of the Atkins and South Beach diets).   This book proves that being overweight is not a character defect or a lack of willpower, but the concurrence of a common genetic quirk, excess glucose shocks and dormant slow-twitch muscle fibers.  By crafting a strategy to eliminate glucose shocks and wake up muscle metabolism, readers can lose weight surely and permanently.

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