[This book is a Dean Tudor pick of the month.]

Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating has been put together by Hope S. Warshaw, RD, MMSc, CDE – a nationally recognized expert on healthy eating and diabetes. This is a hard to beat book if you eat out a lot and are diabetic or just want to cut back on superfluous calories, sugars and fats. The coverage is for American chain restaurants, and (for the most part) these same chains also exist in Canada. Six meals a week are eaten out in restaurants, mostly at chains where you just walk in and go up to the front. 61 chains are covered (although Tim Horton’s is listed as only available online at the website below), and almost 7,000 items are analyzed. The arrangement is by loose type of diner: breakfasts, snacks, chicken, seafood, burgers, family fare, soups and sandwiches, pizza, tacos, Asiatic, and frozen desserts. Nutritional analyses for each item include calories, fat content, saturated fats, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates, fibre and protein. Choices and Exchanges are also listed. So you can go through all the burger and pizza joints to find the “best” possible foods. She has sample meals that show readers how to make healthy meals from the menu of each resto, and related to this she also indicates “Healthiest Bet” choices from every establishment. I wish she had also done highly refined corn fructose (HRCF) as well. This is a survival kit; it has been published since 1999. More can be found at www.diabetes.org/healthyrestaurant, especially searching for key terms.

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