Ebook digital download for Kindle (Amazon) or iTunes (Apple)
NOT a hard copy. Print edition now out of print.
Do you have high cholesterol or high blood pressure? Or a family history of heart problems? Need heart surgery?
 Let nutritionist Catherine Saxelby show you how you can adopt healthier eating habits for your heart. She should know - this is the diet she used on her husband to bring his cholesterol down!
You start with a quick quiz to assess your risk status, then work through Catherine's 10 step plan based around omega-3s, antioxidants, plant sterols, whole grains, fibre and the ‘good' fats.
You'll find menus, eating out advice, shopping lists, label tips, delicious recipes and supplement guide. Plus a handy saturated fat counter.
You'll get:
- a 10 step plan to improve your heart health
- a quick quiz to assess your risk of heart disease
- menus and meal ideas for maximising the 'heart protectors' in your diet
- advice on how to buy the best fast food and restaurant meals
- a complete shopping list for low-fat and low-cholesterol
- comprehensive recipe section of delicious, healthy dishes
Follow the advice in There's more to Heart Health than Cholesterol to improve your heart health and revitalise your life!
Contents
- Part 1 What causes of heart disease
- Part 2 The 10 steps for healthy heart eating
- Part 3 How to rethink your daily diet
- Part 4 Medications and herbal supplements (statins, bile acid resins, nicotinic acid, aspirin, fish oil, vitamin E, garlic, co-enzyme Q10, hawthorn, Chinese red yeast rice, policosanol)
- Part 5 Exercise, quit smoking and stress management
- Part 6 55 quick-to-prepare recipes
- Fat & saturated fat counter
- Resources, glossary, references
Reviews
"A straightforward and practical guide to lowering your cholesterol and protecting your heart by what you eat....so sensible and easy to follow"
Simply Lite magazine
"Your new book seemed to encapsulate in one volume heaps of information I'd previously found in many of the books I have...the recipes look quite delicious..."
B Freeman (reader), South Australia
"Nutrition information in a nutshell and our patients have found it very useful."
Cardiac Rehabilitation Association
55 quick easy recipes
How about:
- Kathleen's Lemon Zest Swordfish
- Thai Salmon Cakes
- Dijon steak with butter bean salad
- Honey-mustard chicken
- Easy teriyaki garlic chicken
- Barbecued rosemary vegetable kebabs
- Spicy soy burgers with yoghurt chutney dressing
- Beef, avocado and basil melt
- Salmon, baby spinach and cous-cous salad
- Persion oranges with wine and cloves
- Banana bran muffins
- Super smoothie
Note: Softcover book now OUT OF PRINT. Kindle digital version is the only version now available. You get instant wireless delivery. No Kindle device? You can download Kindle for PC, for Mac, for iphone, ipad and Blackberry quickly and easily at Amazon.
Da Capo Press 2006
Kindle Edition 242 pages
ISBN 1-74066-065-X
US$9.99
This book is the same text as the original Australian edition by Hardie Grant 2006 under the title "Eating for the Healthy Heart".
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