The American Heart Association's Go Red For Women social initiative has inspired hundreds of thousands of women to eat nutritiously, exercise regularly, and maintain a healthy weight. By cooking wholesome meals at home, you can easily and significantly reduce your risk of heart disease, which takes the lives of more women each year than all forms of cancer combined. Learn to stick to your health goals with recipes for guilt-free appetizers, dinners, and snacks for the whole family.
Offers practical advice on diet, exercise, and health care for women which can promote heart health, discussing smoking, pregnancy, cardiovascular disease, and other related topics.
A HEALTH COOKBOOK FOR WOMEN BY WOMEN The American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women social initiative has inspired hundreds of thousands of women to eat nutritiously, exercise regularly, and maintain a healthy weight. Now the iconic "red dress" can be your kitchen companion all year long, with 200 recipes to help you take charge of your health. By cooking wholesome meals at home, you can easily and significantly reduce your risk of heart disease, which takes the lives of more women each year than all forms of cancer combined. The Go Red For Women Cookbook helps you stick to your health goals with recipes for guilt-free drinks, appetizers, dinners, and desserts for gatherings with friends and breakfasts on the go, brown-bag lunches, and snacks for the whole family. Recipes include: · Vegetable-Shrimp Spring Rolls with Honey-Jalapeño Sauce · Chipotle Tomato Soup · Spinach Salad with Apples and Caramelized Radishes · Kale Salad with Sweet Citrus Dressing · Lime-Basil Tilapia · Jerk Chicken with Mango-Avocado Salsa · Portobello Ragout with Sun-Dried Tomato Polenta · Garlicky Greek Salad Pizza · Sangría-Style Punch · Lemon Mini Cheesecakes · Red Velvet Cake Pops A necessary primer on good nutrition, weight control, and smart grocery shopping as well as how to live and enjoy a healthy lifestyle while helping to prevent heart disease, The Go Red For Women Cookbook makes it easy for you to adopt healthy eating habits.
The American Heart Association presents a must-have low-sodium cookbook with over 200 delicious dishes for people trying to decrease their salt intake—now completely updated and revised with 50 new recipes. “Those in the know have been counting on American Heart Association books for years; the wide variety of recipes gets the whole family on track for heart-smart eating.”—Good Housekeeping Dedicated to healthy eating, the American Heart Association has always provided readers with delicious ways to reduce their sodium intake—without sacrificing taste. Encompassing everything from appetizers and soups to entrées and desserts, The American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook is a wonderful collection of more than two hundred scrumptious low-salt and low-saturated fat recipes. Start with Hot and Smoky Chipotle-Garlic Dip, move on to Grilled Pork Medallions with Apple Cider Sauce or maybe the Cajun Snapper, and finish with a decadent Denver Chocolate Pudding Cake. The American Heart Association Low-Sodium Cookbook provides nutrient analysis for each dish and tips on substituting ingredients, avoiding hidden sodium, and dining out while sticking to your low-sodium plan. You’ll learn how to accomplish your goals—and discover how stylish and flavorful eating heart-healthy can be!
A balanced, sensible approach to a heart-healthy lifestyle introduces a simple method for calculating a person's ideal caloric intake, along with two weeks of menus, nutritional analyses, and two hundred new recipes, ranging from Sole Champignon to Vanilla Soufflé with Brandy-Plum Sauce. 50,000 first printing.
People with diabetes want heart-healthy recipes, since heart disease strikes people with diabetes twice as often as the rest of the population. But they also want recipes that taste great. In Diabetes & Heart Healthy Meals for Two, the two largest health associations in America team up to provide recipes that are simple, flavorful, and perfect for people with diabetes who are worried about improving or maintaining their cardiovascular health. A follow-up to Diabetes & Heart Healthy Cookbook, this collaboration from the American Diabetes Association® and the American Heart Association focuses on meals with only two servings. Because so many adults with diabetes are older, two-serving meals are perfect for those without children in the house—or even those living alone who want to keep leftovers to a minimum.
The classic cookbook for achieving heart health and wellbeing through a diet that is low in cholesterol and saturated fat--updated and revised with 200 recipes (including 50 new to this edition) Lose the bad fats, but not the flavor. Now in its fifth edition, American Heart Association Healthy Fats, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook provides the most up-to-date information on heart health and nutrition. Good-for-you food should also be satisfying, and the American Heart Association reveals how easy it is to replace the bad fats in your diet with healthier ones. This classic cookbook offers more than 200 tempting dishes, 50 of which are new, including: · Fresh Basil and Kalamata Hummus · Triple-Pepper and White Bean Soup with Rotini · Taco Salad · Hearty Fish Chowder · Chicken Pot Pie with Mashed Potato Topping · Balsamic Braised Beef with Exotic Mushrooms · Grilled Pizza with Grilled Vegetables · Stovetop Scalloped Tomatoes · Puffed Pancake with Apple-Cranberry Sauce · Mango Brûlée with Pine Nuts The perfect companion for today’s healthy cook, this indispensable collection of recipes proves you can eat deliciously and nutritiously.
Here is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to improve cardiac health and lose weight, offering 800 recipes—100 all new, 150 refreshed—that cut saturated fat and cholesterol. The American Heart Association's cornerstone cookbook has sold more than three million copies and it's now fully updated and expanded to reflect the association's latest guidelines as well as current tastes, with a fresh focus on quick and easy. This invaluable, one-stop-shopping resource—including updated heart-health information, strategies and tips for meal planning, shopping, and cooking healthfully—by the most recognized and respected name in heart health is certain to become a staple in American kitchens.
"Knowing how to cook healthfully--without sacrificing flavor--is an important step towards improving heart health, weight, and overall well-being. For the first time, American Heart Association offers a primer on 12 easy-to-master heart-healthy cooking techniques (baking, broiling, braising, poaching, grilling, roasting, microwaving, blending, slow cooking, and stewing, to name a few). Once you know these techniques, you'll be able to customize the 175 recipes in this book for an endless supply of delicious meals. Learn the basics and then start experimenting!"--
Each year in America, more than one million people suffer from heart attacks caused by high cholesterol - and half a million die from related heart disease. Don't become a statistic - take control of your health now! The Everything Low Cholesterol Cookbook provides everything from information on how to create a sensible diet and fitness plan to practical tips for improving your overall well-being. This comprehensive, authoritative guide edited by Sandra K. Nissenberg, M.S., R.D., provides you with all the information you need to lower your cholesterol and reduce your risk of a heart attack. Features timely, reliable information on: The differences between "good" and "bad" cholesterol The effects of high cholesterol and artery blockage Suggestions to improve your overall health Nutrition and exercise tips to keep you fit and well Up-to-date government cholesterol guidelines Also including more than seventy-five heart-healthy recipes for the whole family, The Everything Low Cholesterol Cookbook provides you with all the up-to-the-minute information to keep you informed and healthy.
