Don't Eat Your Heartout Cookbook

With over 939,000 copies in print, used and recommended by more than 5,500 hospitals, and now completely revised and updated, Don't Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook is the bible for anyone seeking a heart-healthy diet.

Incorporating the latest scientific and nutritional studies, lay expert Joe Piscatella outlines an effective plan for life-long heart health and explains the science behind it in plain-speaking language we all can understand.

Packed with 400 healthy, low-fat recipes-soups, salads, sandwiches, poultry, seafood, and even red meats and desserts-painstakingly developed by Joe's wife Bernie, this indispensable book is a step-by-step guide to achieving a permanent change in dietary patterns. The author provides countless tips on adapting everyday recipes, ordering judiciously in restaurants, decreasing salt and sugar intake, losing weight and keeping it off. The new edition pays special attention to women and heart disease, explains HDL and LDL cholesterol and what the numbers really mean, and discusses coronary regression, the benefits of aspirin, and lifestyle factors vs. genetics. It dispels food myths--that shrimp is a no-no, alcohol is always unhealthy, and ground turkey is better than ground beef--and shows how to make use of low-fat food products. <

A cardiac patient's step-by-step guide to cooking and eating in the real world

How to lower cholesterol, cut fat, reduce salt and sugar, and still eat tasty food

How to adapt everyday recipes for healthy eating

How to change eating habits permanently

How to lose weight and keep it off

How to read the new food labels

How to eat smart in restaurants

And more

Praise from professionals for the revised edition:

The present revision is a major one. It applies the most current information on diet and cardiovascular health, and provides a method of dietary change that is both realistic and effective. . . . If we all abided by what Mr. Piscatella says, the health of our nation would skyrocket.

William C. Roberts, M.D., Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Cardiology

Don't Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook is the best, most focused approach I've seen for changing your diet and reducing heart disease. This is a terrific resource for heart patients and anyone else interested in good health.

L. Kent Smith, Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Arizona Heart Institute

If I could spend a day counseling each of my patients, I'd tell them what's written in Don't Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook. . . . It is an exceptional job of balancing information and technique, in language everyone can understand.

Michael Davidson, M.D., Medical Director, Chicago Center for Clinical Research