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TV chef's healthy diet - the GI way

Amanda Crook
20/ 4/2006

CELEBRITY chef Antony Worrall Thompson cooked up a storm at a healthy food workshop for M.E.N. readers.

Fifty readers watched the star of TV's Saturday Kitchen create some of his favourite low GI recipes.

Worrall Thompson, 53, credits the GI (Glycemic Index) diet with helping him reverse the pre-diabetic condition, syndrome X, which he was diagnosed with four years ago.

After designing his own GI recipe range, he has also lost two stone. He made spicy mushrooms on toast, crab and asparagus pasta and leak and pea soup at the demonstration at Manchester Metropolitan University's catering school.

He said: "I was diagnosed with this pre-diabetic condition on a TV show and it was a huge shock. I thought I was really healthy.

"I went home and told my wife I was dying.

"When it had sunk in, I decided to eating more healthily, and I was determined it wouldn't mean the end of eating interesting food."

Jackie Anderson, 29, a marketing officer from Didsbury, was one of the M.E.N. readers taking part. She said: "I started the GI diet two weeks ago so I'm just trying to get my head round it. I'm really keen to pick up some recipe ideas."