Reviews Miami cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston’s book, The South Beach Diet.
This paper provides an overview of how the South Beach Diet is supposed to work, sample glycemic-index values for everyday foods and sugars, an assessment of the efficacy of the diet, followed by a summary and recommendations in the conclusion.
According to Agatston, people should eat more foods that are low on the index if they want to lose weight and boost their heart health oat-bran bread and spinach, for example, instead of biscuits and French fries. In order to prevent the uncontrollable bursts of hunger brought on by low blood sugar, dieters should also snack regularly on low-GI foods like peanuts instead of high-GI choices like pretzels (Mullich, 2003, p. 150).