Synopses & Reviews
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women, killing six times as many as breast cancer. What's worse, too few women realize the dire risk they face.
WomenHeart, the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, is an organization dedicated to helping women heart patients and those at risk for heart disease, whether they know it or not. Through an extensive support group network, they also help women who have heart disease live normal lives. And because dietary changes are often an important part of the recovery process, when their members gather, the conversation naturally turns to food.
To help spread the news of their work, WomenHeart has created this one-of-a-kind collection that focuses on 40 key foods known to promote heart health that features a number of family-friendly recipes from their members.
Packed with plenty of great-to-wake-up-to dishes like French Toast with Orange Cream and Lemon Blueberry Muffins, it also includes dozens of crowd-pleasing dinner favorites like Revamped Chicken Pot-pie, Beef and Vegetable Stroganoff, and Sesame Salmon with Spicy Cucumber Salad. In fact, in this collection there's a recipe for every occasion, as well as 40 enticing photographs.
Even better, this cookbook includes plenty of desserts, like Flourless Chocolate Cake, Summer Fruit Compote, and Raspberry Buckle, making it easy to see that fighting heart disease can mean indulging in the pleasures good food offers.
Review
"The variety and simplicity make this a reliable--and lighthearted--resource for anyone trying to fight or prevent heart trouble." - Publishers Weekly "Overall, the book will be useful for those who are interested in a healthier diet..." - Library Journal Review
Synopsis
Developed by WomenHeart, the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, this outstanding cookbook is the organization’s effort to raise awareness that having heart disease, or a family history of heart disease, doesn’t mean you have no control of your heart health. In fact, with the right lifestyle and diet, heart disease is often preventable—and this book shows you how--in a very tasty way. Unlike so many books today that tell us what not to eat, here is one that shows how to protect our hearts and enhance our health by
adding delicious foods to our life, not taking them away. The focus is on 40 key foods that have been scientifically proven to help protect the heart and prevent heart disease, and the 175 dishes—which range from
Grilled Shrimp with Mango Salsa to
Linguine with Walnut Pesto—all feature three or more of these foods as significant ingredients.
From apples and avocados to chocolate and cranberries, from salmon and sweet potatoes to wine to whole wheat, these are foods that can easily and realistically be incorporated into daily meals for the whole family. Not a difficult gourmet cookbook calling for exotic ingredients and tricky cooking techniques, this is instead a prescription for a healthy life full of recipes as welcoming and comforting as a family supper.
Synopsis
Developed by WomenHeart, this outstanding cookbook is the organizations effort to raise awareness that having heart disease doesnt mean sufferers have no control of their health. With the right lifestyle and diet, this illness is often preventable--and this book shows how.
About the Author
Kathy Kastan, LCSW, MA ED, is the president of WomenHeart as well as the chair of the Northwest Region of the American Heart Association. Author of From the Heart: A Womans Guide to Living Well with Heart Disease, she is a licensed certified social worker, Ms. Kastan lives in Cordova, Tennessee. Suzanne Banfield, PhD, has worked as a dietitian, food scientist, and educator. She heads WomenHeart's North Jersey Support Network and gives frequent lectures on heart health to civic and corporate groups. She lives in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Wendy Leonard is an award-winning medical writer with more than 23 years' experience translating complicated medical jargon into information people can truly understand and use. She lives in Hawthorne, New Jersey. WomenHeart is the only national patient-centered organization that provides support, education, and advocacy for women living with heart disease. Through a broad coalition of networks, they offer comprehensive services to women with heart disease and empower all women to take charge of their heart health. For more information, go to www.womenheart.org.