Delicious Heart-Healthy Recipes to Reduce Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke.
Hands down, this book is a winner for its stand-alone heart smart content, scope, ease and practicality. Then toss in more than 400 recipes with variety and loads of flavor, and you realize what a bargain this book truly is.

With over 100,000 copies sold it is highly recommended by registered dietitians and cardiologists. It has received high praise from a number of reviewers and has received the Benjamin Franklin Merit Award for Best Cookbook and two MBA Awards as Best Cookbook and Best Health Book! And, if you’re a movie buff, Cooking ala Heart has made it to Hollywood, starring in the love, life and chance comedy, Once Around (with Holly Hunter, Richard Dreyfuss, and Gena Rowlands). It’s in a scene of its own.

The newly revised and updated 2010 edition reinforces the nutrition science that—

A heart healthy lifestyle is an all healthy lifestyle.

Not only can the recommendations found in Cooking ala Heart help your heart stay fit, they can also help you live longer and enjoy those added years in good health.

Heart disease remains the #1 killer of both women and men, affecting an estimated one in three adults. It affects many of us at midlife as well as in old age. Consider these facts:

• Each year 500,000 Americans die of heart disease; half are women.

• As early as age 45, a man’s risk of heart disease begins to rise; for a woman, risk starts to increase at age 55.

• One in eight women between the ages of 45 and 64 has some form of heart disease and this increases to one in four women over age 65.

How can Cooking ala Heart help?

• Nutritional recommendations from nine leading health agencies, which study the connections between lifestyle and health, are included in the first two chapters.
• Follow a proven healthy eating plan that can reduce your risk of heart disease. The DASH Diet can lower LDL cholesterol, prevent or lower blood pressure and promotes weight loss.
• Learn what foods to eat every day to improve your brain and heart health.
• Use the chart to select fish with the most Omega 3 fats, lowest levels of mercury and are the best select ecologically.
• Check out your Body Mass Index (BMI). Know your number.
• Take the (at home) test to determine if you are at risk of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Identify the one thing you can do everyday to lose visceral (belly) fat, improve your circulation, lower blood pressure, look and feel more alert, leave you better able to cope with stress and depression, and improve your outward appearance. And, here’s the best part—it doesn’t cost a thing.

All recipes have full nutrient analysis, carb counts, and exchanges. Recipes use common ingredients, rely on whole grains and unprocessed foods, and reinforce the use of monounsaturated fats (and Omega-3 fats). They are controlled for

Twelve chapters of recipes include appetizers, dips, beverages, breads, salads, dressings & sauces, grains, pastas & legumes, vegetables, fish & seafood, poultry, meat, soups, sandwiches & pizza, seasonings and fruit desserts and more. Also included are seven days worth of breakfast, lunch and dinner menus.

Research shows that we can lower our heart disease risk by as much as 82 percent by adopting sensible health habits. Cooking ala Heart shows—

• What habits to adopt to protect your heart.
• Tips to downsize meals and still feel satisfied.
• How to distinguish good fats from bad.
• How to reduce sodium, with many homemade salt-free blends to put into your saltshaker.

Let Cooking ala Heart give you a variety of delicious foods to satisfy your appetite while you help your heart stay fit.

Softcover, 446 pages. © 2010