Cooking the Heart-Healthy Way

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Recipes

• Carrot-raisin bread
• Barbecue chicken
• Beef Stroganoff
• Heart-healthy pumpkin pie


Stay Young at Heart Recipes

Sound too good to be true? The 12 recipes in this packet will convince you that healthy dishes can also be delicious. Each recipe also lists total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, and calories per serving. From the "Stay Young at Heart" cookbook, courtesy of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Heart-Healthy Home Cooking, African American Style

Good food is one of life's great joys. And good meals are a shared pleasure at the heart of African American family life and special celebrations. This recipe book brings together many African American favorite recipes, prepared in a heart-healthy way lower in fat, especially saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium.

Prepare your favorite African American dishes in ways that protect you and your family from heart disease and stroke. These 20 tested recipes will show you how to cut back on saturated fat, cholesterol, salt, and sodium and still have great-tasting food. Delicious foods from spicy southern barbecued chicken to sweet potato pie are included. 28 pages. NIH Publication No. 97-3792