Cholesterol Lowering Foods: Healthy and Delicious
Numerous studies have shown that including certain items in one’s diet will help lower both cholesterol and blood pressure levels, greatly reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke. Let’s celebrate the large array of foods that not only taste good, but improve health too. The time to beat heart disease - by eating - is now.
Kennewick, WA (PRWEB) February 21, 2006
Heart disease has been the number one cause of death in this country for more than a century. And for many people, all heart related medical advice seems to concentrate on forbidden foods. However, numerous studies show that including certain items in one’s diet will help lower both cholesterol and blood pressure levels, greatly reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke. Let’s celebrate the large array of foods that not only taste good, but improve health too. The time to beat heart disease - by eating - is now.
Happily, cookbook author Renee Pottle has done most everything for us except the cooking and the dishes. In her new booklet; The Contented Heart Cookbook: Lower Your Cholesterol with Heart-Healthy Foods (© 2006, $6.96 trade paperback, www. craftandcook) she offers 24 recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner and reveals how to easily include heart-healthy foods in everyday meal plans.
“Most of the heart-healthy foods are those that we already enjoy,” Pottle points out, “but sometimes we just need a reminder to eat more of them!” For example, with just a few changes Hot Cocoa, Pesto, and even eggs in the form of a Frittata, can lower cholesterol and improve overall health. Inexpensive, unassuming beans find themselves reinvented in New England Baked Beans, sweetly full of molasses, or the equally delicious baked, instead of traditionally deep-fried, Falafel. Buttery avocados and blood oranges are transformed into a colorful Avocado Chicken with a taste so rich it’s hard to believe that it’s healthy. Old-fashioned oatmeal fits modern tastes in Swiss Style Muesli and easy-to-prepare Oat-Molasses Muffins. Versatile soy shows up in a Soy Milk Smoothie and Spicy Tofu and Veggies, or slipped into Taco Salad. Even Potato-Leek Soup and Chicken Curry, usually considered tabu by anyone watching their cholesterol level, is included in this heart-healthy diet.
This is just a sampling of the tasty dishes found in The Contented Heart Cookbook. Pottle also: identifies several cholesterol-lowering foods, including soy, oatmeal, spinach, onions, and poultry and explains HOW they help reduce heart attack and stroke risk, provides tips on how to stay heart-healthy, includes daily nutrition recommendations from the American Heart Association, gives nutritional breakdowns for every recipe, offers cooking tips for quick meal preparation, and provides hints to manage conflicting nutrition information. All recipes were tested and perfected by Pottle, a Family and Consumer Scientist and Health Instructor, as she strives to outwit her family history of heart disease.
To request a review copy or prepared recipe and book cover JPEGs, please contact Hestia’s Hearth Publishing at 509-531-9225.
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