The American Heart Association, the country's preeminent institution for information about cardiovascular health, has produced the definitive book on caring for the heart. This interactive, prevention-oriented "owner's manual" for the heart provides personalized care and maintenance programs, all backed by the expertise of the AHA, that reflect the way people really live today. The American Heart Association's Your Heart An Owner's Manual will help you develop a personalized life plan that integrates nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle factors into one comprehensive program for enhanced heart health. It will help you set realistic goals, make informed eating choices, and determine what risk factors are endangering your life and what you can do to reduce them.

American Heart Association's Your Heart: An Owner's Manual

Health, Fitness & Dieting

American Heart Association

Diets & Weight Loss

Prentice Hall Direct

By now, you’ve heard of (and maybe tried) them all: the low-carb diet, the grapefruit diet, the miracle diet . . . the list goes on and on. Fad diets may promise a quick fix, but few deliver lasting results. If you’re like millions of other Americans, you’re still struggling to lose weight and get in shape—without harming your long-term health in the process. It’s time to leave behind the one-size-fits-all approach to dieting. Now, the American Heart Association, the nation’s most trusted authority on heart-healthy living, introduces its first-ever comprehensive weight-loss book. No-Fad Diet helps you create a personalized plan to lose weight in a healthful way. After a simple assessment of your current habits, you choose the eating and exercise strategies that best fit your needs. You’ll learn how to set realistic goals, eat well to lose extra pounds safely, and add physical activity to keep the weight off for good. This book offers more than 190 delicious, all-new recipes, including Cream of Triple-Mushroom Soup, Tilapia Cham-pignon, Chicken Pot Pie, Pumpkin-Cranberry Pancakes, and Vanilla Soufflé with Brandy-Plum Sauce. You’ll also find two weeks of sample menus, guidelines for meal planning, useful tips on dining out and food shopping, and sound advice for staying on track to reach your target weight. If you’re fed up with fads and want a diet that can provide a lifetime of effective weight control, No-Fad Diet is the book for you. Tired of losing weight and gaining it back? Sick of fad diets and gimmicks? Frustrated by crazy food restrictions? Try the No-Fad Diet What’s the only effective way to lose weight and keep it off? It’s simple: Calories in must be less than calories out. But since the factors that contribute to this not-so-magic formula are different for everyone, a one-size diet plan does not fit all. The No-Fad Diet includes: •Tips on turning negative thinking into positive rewards •Simple quizzes to find the approach that’s best for you •Diary pages to record and monitor your eating and activity habits •Strategies to reduce calories and increase your activity levels •Guidelines to help you prepare your own nutritious meals •More than 190 delicious and healthful recipes •Techniques to maintain your momentum The weight-loss strategies in this book are based on reliable scientific research and are backed by respected medical professionals. The American Heart Association has the information you can trust. Also available as a Random House Large Print Edition

American Heart Association No-Fad Diet: A Personal Plan for Healthy Weight Loss

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Special Diet

Harmony

Since the American Heart Association published its first cookbook in 1973, dozens of health and diet trends have come and gone. Throughout this time, the Association, the foremost authority on heart health, has set the standard for nutritious eating. With millions of copies already in print, the Association’s flagship cookbook, The New American Heart Association Cookbook, is back—and better than ever. In today’s climate of confusing and often contradictory dietary trends, the American Heart Association once again rises above the fray and presents credible, easy-to-understand information about maintaining a healthy heart—and delicious recipes that make it simple to follow that advice at every meal. The more than 600 recipes, including 150 new ones, follow the American Heart Association’s guidelines for healthy eating and make The New American Heart Association Cookbook, Seventh Edition a welcome addition to the cookbook world. Whether you crave classic family favorites, ethnic dishes, vegetarian entrées, or the most varied, cutting-edge recipes, you’ll find plenty of options. Orange Chicken Lettuce Wraps, Greek-Style Beef Skillet Supper, and Grilled Vegetable Pizza with Herbs and Cheese are just a few examples of the up-to-date, exciting, and flavorful choices inside. The New American Heart Association Cookbook, Seventh Edition can even help with menu planning, holiday cooking, and shopping for healthful ingredients. With the latest information about the connection between good food and good health, emphasizing variety, balance, and common sense, The New American Heart Association Cookbook, Seventh Edition is the ultimate healthy-heart cookbook. From the Hardcover edition.

The New American Heart Association Cookbook, 7th Edition

Clarkson/Potter

Eat wisely, eat well. The nation’s most trusted authority on heart-healthy living presents the fourth edition of this classic cookbook, with the most up-to-date information on heart health and nutrition—including the effects of saturated and trans fats and cholesterol—and 50 exciting new recipes. American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook offers more than 200 delicious, easy-to-prepare dishes, including: •Fresh Basil and Kalamata Hummus •Elegant Beef Tenderloin •Tilapia Tacos with Fresh Salsa •Garlic Chicken Fillets in Balsamic Vinegar •Peppery Beef with Blue Cheese Sauce •Thai Coconut Curry with Vegetables •Sweet Potatoes in Creamy Cinnamon Sauce •Pumpkin-Pie Coffeecake •Streusel-Topped Blueberry Bars •Key Lime Tart with Tropical Fruit The perfect companion for today’s healthy cook, this indispensable cookbook will help you put delicious food on the table and make the best choices for your heart’s health.

American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook, 4th edition: Delicious Recipes to Help Lower Your Cholesterol

In print for more than thirty-five years and with three million copies sold, The New American Heart Association Cookbook remains the ultimate resource on achieving a healthy diet. With 612 mouthwatering recipes and the latest heart-health information, this newly revised and updated edition is more valuable than ever. There’s just no denying that nutritious, wholesome eating combined with an active lifestyle helps prevent heart disease and increases vitality. The American Heart Association knows that maintaining good heart health throughout your life is possible, and this cookbook shows you how to get started right in your own kitchen. The New American Heart Association Cookbook, 8th Edition, includes not only 600-plus everyday recipes for the whole family but also the most current dietary, exercise, and lifestyle recommendations. This latest edition features more than 150 brand-new recipes, all of which meet the American Heart Association’s good-health and high-flavor standards. With globally inspired tastes, trendy ingredients, and popular time-saving cooking methods, here are just some of the new recipes this edition has to offer: • Curried Pumpkin Soup • Spinach Salad with Roasted Beets and • Pomegranate Vinaigrette • Ginger-Infused Watermelon and Mixed Berries • Slow-Cooker Cioppino • Salmon Cakes with Creole Aïoli • Chicken Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce • Couscous Paella • Slow-Cooker Chile Verde Pork Chops • Black Bean Polenta with Avocado Salsa • Cumin and Ginger Lentils on Quinoa • Edamame with Walnuts • Sweet Potato Bread • Pistachio-Cardamom Meringues • Delicate Lemon Ricotta Cheesecake with • Blackberries In this revised edition of The New American Heart Association Cookbook, you’ll find updated information on trans fats and sodium, all-new nutritional analyses, and important good health tips. Also included are grocery-shopping strategies, healthy cooking methods, more than a dozen new menu plans for special occasions and holidays, a recipe index of Planned-Overs and Plan-Aheads for easy reference, and more. With so many recipes and so much information packed between its pages, The New American Heart Association Cookbook will be the cookbook you return to again and again.

The New American Heart Association Cookbook, 8th Edition

If you’re like most other busy Americans, you’d love to prepare more healthy meals for your family but find it hard to make the time. The good news is that with a little planning and the clock-conscious recipes in American Heart Association Quick &amp; Easy Meals, you can cook a nutritious dinner for your family faster than you can pick up take-out, buy a packaged meal at the grocery store, or get food delivered. You’ll also conserve money and greatly trim the amount of calories, saturated and trans fat, sodium, and cholesterol in your meals. This collection of more than 200 recipes will help you put a delicious and healthy meal on the table tonight—and every night—in just minutes. Many recipes, including more than 60 entrées, are ready in 25 minutes or less from start to finish, and American Heart Association Quick &amp; Easy Meals also contains a wide variety of flavors and cuisines that appeal to today’s eclectic tastes. In this cookbook, you’ll find 50 new recipes, including: • Edamame, Salmon, and Pasta Salad • Chicken Biryani • Chinese-Style Chicken Soup with Fresh Ginger • Oven-Fried Zucchini with Salsa Dip • Middle Eastern Spiced Beef • Cranberry-Topped Meat Loaf • Crustless Mushroom and Spinach Pie • Vegetable, Bean, and Barley Stew • Chutney Salmon • Double Decker Pumpkin Cupcakes To manage mealtimes and meet your lifestyle needs, you can choose from dozens of entrée recipes that fall into one of the following categories: • No Shopping Required • Planned-Overs • All-in-One • Express American Heart Association Quick &amp; Easy Meals alsoprovides ideas for organizing your kitchen, shopping strategies to help you with meal planning, heart-smart cooking techniques, and time-saving tips from cooking experts. In addition, you’ll find information on heart health, including the American Heart Association dietary and lifestyle recommendations and nutritional analyses for every recipe. This classic cookbook will give you the satisfaction of knowing that the foods you prepare are as good for your heart as they are quick to make and tasty to eat.

American Heart Association Quick & Easy Meals: More Than 200 Healthy Recipes Plus Time-Saving Tips for Shopping, Planning, and Eating Well

Quick & Easy

Lasting weight loss doesn’t come from following extreme diets or quick-fix fads. Being able to lose weight and keep it off comes from choosing the lifestyle habits that make sense for you in the long term. If, like millions of other Americans, you are struggling to lose weight, this second edition of the American Heart Association No-Fad Diet will show you how to find just the right combination of attitude, eating, and exercise to achieve your goals in an effective and healthy way. Updated with the latest information on nutrition science and weight management, No-Fad Diet leads you through an assessment of your current eating and exercise habits and then helps you create a personalized program to fit your weight-loss needs and your lifestyle, instead of you having to follow a one-size-fits-all approach to dieting. This new edition also offers nearly 200 delicious, low-calorie recipes, including 50 brand-new dishes. You can lose weight while enjoying: - Lemon-Ginger Trail Mix - Creamy Broccoli Soup with Sour Cream and Cheddar - Taco Salad with Avocado Dressing - Tuna Lettuce Wraps with Asian Sauce - Cheesy Chicken and Quinoa Stir-Fry - Grilled Sirloin Kebabs with Creamy Herb Dipping Sauce - Moussaka-Style Eggplant Casserole - Slow-Cooker Black Bean Chili - Mango-Berry Sweet Cream Tarts A practical, hands-on guidebook, No-Fad Diet includes two weeks of sample menus for three different calorie levels, guidelines for meal planning, useful tips on food shopping and dining out, and an improved and expanded toolkit section to help you both create your personalized plan and ensure that you’ll stay on track to reach your goals. If you’re fed up with fads and want a realistic approach for a lifetime of effective weight control and good health, No-Fad Diet is the book for you. Recipe Excerpt from American Heart Association No-Fad Diet Wild Rice and Chicken Chowder Serves 4; 1 ½ cups per serving This hearty soup will fill you up and warm you up on a cold winter day. Ingredients 1 teaspoon canola or corn oil 8 ounces chicken tenders or boneless, skinless chicken breasts, all visible fat discarded, cut into 1/2-inch cubes 1 medium carrot, sliced crosswise 1/2 medium onion, thinly sliced 3 cups fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth ½ 6- to 7-ounce box quick-cooking white and wild rice, seasoning packet discarded ½ teaspoon dried thyme, crumbled ¼ teaspoon dried sage ¼ teaspoon salt 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper 8 ounces broccoli florets ½ cup fat-free half-and-half ¼ cup shredded or grated Parmesan cheese Instructions In a large saucepan, heat the oil over medium-high heat, swirling to coat the bottom. Cook the chicken for 3 to 4 minutes, or until browned, stirring occasionally. Stir in the carrot and onion. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, or until they are tender-crisp, stirring occasionally. Pour in the broth. Bring to a simmer. Stir in the rice, thyme, sage, salt, and pepper. Return to a simmer. Reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the broccoli. Simmer, covered, for 5 minutes, or until the broccoli and rice are tender. Stir in the half-and-half and Parmesan. Cook over low heat for 1 to 2 minutes, or until the Parmesan is melted, stirring occasionally. Nutrition Information per serving calories 243 total fat 3.5 g saturated fat 1.0 g trans fat 0.0 gbr/&gt; polyunsaturated fat 0.5 g monounsaturated fat 1.5 g cholesterol 37 mg sodium 377 mg carbohydrates 31 g fiber 3 g sugars 5 g protein 23 g Dietary Exchanges 1 ½ starch, 2 vegetable, 2 very lean meat

American Heart Association No-Fad Diet, 2nd Edition: A Personal Plan for Healthy Weight Loss

Convenience and eating healthfully can go hand in hand, and with the American Heart Association Quick &amp; Easy Cookbook, 2nd Edition, you can spend less time in the kitchen and still achieve great results at the table. This revised and expanded edition of the classic cookbook includes more than 200 speedy dishes, of which 60 are brand new. Prep and cooking times are provided for all recipes, so you’ll know how much time you’ll need in the kitchen. And rest assured, no dish takes longer than 20 minutes to prepare, and many recipes can be made in 30 minutes from start to finish. In fewer than 10 minutes, you can start your day with Confetti Scrambler or Mandarin Breakfast Parfaits. No one will guess you whipped up dinner in 20 minutes when you serve Chicken with Tarragon Oil, Baked Tilapia with Pineapple Reduction, or Beef Tenderloin on Herbed White Beans. When meals are this simple and good for you, even appetizers, snacks, sides, and desserts can be on the docket. You’ll find recipes for Homemade Corn Tortilla Chips, Edamame Salsa, Warm Chicken and Papaya Salad, Citrus Kale with Dried Cranberries, Chocolate-Banana Mini Cupcakes, Grilled Peaches with Almond Liqueur, and much more! Make the most of your time in the kitchen and in the grocery store with helpful tools such as: · Meal-planning strategies, including a sample dinner plan and a chart template to customize your own meals week-by-week · Guidelines for maximizing nutritious foods and minimizing nutrient-poor foods · Shopping strategies, including lists of health-smart staples · Tips on organizing your kitchen for the greatest efficiency · Quick-cooking techniques and short prep tricks With this new edition of one of the American Heart Association’s first and most popular cookbooks, you’ll have a resource right at your fingertips for making your own quick and easy meals that will offer you fast, healthy food.

American Heart Association Quick & Easy Cookbook, 2nd Edition: More Than 200 Healthy Recipes You Can Make in Minutes

Whether you have heart-health problems now or want to avoid having them in the future, keeping your sodium intake low is one of the best ways to help your heart. In this revised and expanded fourth edition of the American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook, the association shows that a low-sodium diet can be not only good for your health but also full of flavor. Including everything from appetizers and soups to entrées and desserts, American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook, 4th Edition, offers more than 200 delicious low-sodium recipes—more than 50 of them brand-new to this edition. Whether you are in the mood for a beloved classic or a new favorite, you will find just the dish to please your palate. Looking for a less salty snack? Try Baked Veggie Chips served with Hot and Smoky Chipotle-Garlic Dip. Craving something hearty and full of flavor? Slow-Cooker Moroccan Chicken with Orange Couscous is an ideal low-sodium fix-it-and-forget-it meal. For a Sunday-night family dinner, try Three-Cheese Lasagna with Swiss Chard. And for your sweet tooth? Whip up Peach and Blueberry Cobbler or Rice Pudding with Caramelized Bananas for a special treat. With this book in hand, you’ll be armed with nutrition numbers for every recipe and the latest American Heart Association dietary information, as well as the how-tos for avoiding hidden sodium, shopping smart, and using healthy cooking techniques. You’ll also find useful resources such as a sodium tracker, a no-sodium seasoning guide, a list of common high-sodium foods, ingredient substitutions, and serving suggestions for each of the food groups.

American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook, 4th Edition: A Complete Guide to Reducing Sodium and Fat in Your Diet

Are you stressed out over how to feed your family a nutritious meal at the end of a long, busy day without turning to convenience foods or the drive-through? Now, the nation’s most trusted authority on heart-healthy living presents a cookbook bursting with nourishing, flavorful recipes to please the palates of family members of all ages. Since the main dish is usually the starting point of meal planning, more than half the recipes in this book are for entrées. Here’s how they’re organized: • Everyday Dinners • Busy Nights • Plan-Aheads • Cook Once, Eat Twice To help you incorporate additional vegetables, fruits, and grains into your family’s diet, we’ve included Make It a Meal, a special feature that suggests accompaniments–salads and soups, vegetable and grain side dishes, and even desserts–for many of the main dishes.

American Heart Association Healthy Family Meals: 150 Recipes Everyone Will Love

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