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Carbs & Cals Carb & Calorie Counter 6th
Carbs Cals Carb Calorie Counter
- GenresNonfictionHealth
352 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1882
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November 10, 2016
This is a great concept of a book! It kicks of with some great information about nutrition that is super helpful and I absolutely love the format.
Broken into popular food categories like desserts, eating out, breads, pasta, fruit etc . Each page has a picture of a type of food, let's use the example of a poached egg. First it gives you the weight of 1 egg and a breakdown of calories, fibre, fat, carbs but sadly doesn't include the sugars, this is key for me as I'm overhauling my life after a diagnosis of diabetes. But I can get that from labels and apps I use.
Then it shows you 2 eggs, 3 eggs and what your intake would be. Where this works well is with pictures of pasta dishes, or a slice of cake or pizza because as you see visually the portion sizes increase you see how much extra calories, carbs etc. that you will suffer for that big serve! It's a motivator to weigh your food and do smaller portion sizes (hint from me, serve your food on smaller plates so you put less on but your brain registers the plate as full).
It's easy to use, has lovely clear photos and better than scrawling through tiny lists of nutritional food values you get in other books. I was pleased to see the sheer range of foods in there. Of course they are average/genetic figures so some items may be more or less in values depending on the brand.
I know I'll refer to this often. It's on my kitchen shelf. Highly recommended no matter what your reasons for wanting to use a book like this. I bought it off Amazon and feel it's very reasonably priced for the quality and content too. 5 stars!
Broken into popular food categories like desserts, eating out, breads, pasta, fruit etc . Each page has a picture of a type of food, let's use the example of a poached egg. First it gives you the weight of 1 egg and a breakdown of calories, fibre, fat, carbs but sadly doesn't include the sugars, this is key for me as I'm overhauling my life after a diagnosis of diabetes. But I can get that from labels and apps I use.
Then it shows you 2 eggs, 3 eggs and what your intake would be. Where this works well is with pictures of pasta dishes, or a slice of cake or pizza because as you see visually the portion sizes increase you see how much extra calories, carbs etc. that you will suffer for that big serve! It's a motivator to weigh your food and do smaller portion sizes (hint from me, serve your food on smaller plates so you put less on but your brain registers the plate as full).
It's easy to use, has lovely clear photos and better than scrawling through tiny lists of nutritional food values you get in other books. I was pleased to see the sheer range of foods in there. Of course they are average/genetic figures so some items may be more or less in values depending on the brand.
I know I'll refer to this often. It's on my kitchen shelf. Highly recommended no matter what your reasons for wanting to use a book like this. I bought it off Amazon and feel it's very reasonably priced for the quality and content too. 5 stars!
July 30, 2016
Excellent book for diabetics. A real help with carb counting
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November 10, 2020useful
December 2, 2018
This was a really good guide for calorie and carb counting. I really liked the layout of the book, and how the nutritional information is explained at the beginning.
It does however make me feel a bit guilty for eating.
It does however make me feel a bit guilty for eating.
June 16, 2019
I love this book also the others in the series. it show plates n dishes of varying sizes for lots of foods along with nutritional information. I use it a lot, every day, very useful to track carbs, sugar fat calories etc.
April 23, 2020
Really easy to sort out calories. Very well illustrated with portion sizes a bit of an eye-opener.
September 27, 2020
Good book for you health
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February 2, 2018Very helpful
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