The Cardiac Recovery Cookbook: Heart Healthy Recipes for Life After Heart Attack or Heart Surgery [Paperback]

M. Laurel Cutlip (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2005

Help Your Heart by Eating Right!

If you are looking to eat healthier and still enjoy mealtime, open your kitchen to The Cardiac Recovery Cookbook. This indispensable companion to The Cardiac Recovery Handbook contains over 100 quick, easy, and delicious NIH-approved recipes to help cardiac patients eat well on the road to wellness.

Whether you want a quick meal, a nutritious dinner, or a heart-healthy dessert, this book is packed with great tasting recipes the whole family can enjoy.

All the recipes are reduced in saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium, and come complete with detailed nutritional information. Eat to your heart’s content with The Cardiac Recovery Cookbook.

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About the Author

M. Laurel Cutlip, R.D., L.N., is a registered dietician and licensed nutritionist. She is the coauthor of Combat Fat! and lives near Baltimore, Maryland.

Sari Budgazad, R.D., C.D.N., is a nutrition consultant for the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Cardiac Health Center.

Paul Kligfield, M.D., is Professor of Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Director of the Cardiac Health Center in New York City. He is the graduate of Harvard Medical School and author of The Cardiac Recovery Handbook.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Hatherleigh Press (March 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578261899
• ISBN-13: 978-1578261895
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #59 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Low Cholesterol

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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to make, good tasting and good for you recipes, August 9, 2005

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The Cardiac Recovery Cookbook: Heart-Healthy Recipes For Life After Heart Attack Or Heart Surgery by registered dietician and licensed nutritionist M. Laurel Cutlip and nutrition consultant Sari Budgazad offers a 216-page compendium of easy to make, good tasting and good for you recipes that are characterized by reduced saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. Each recipe is provided with detailed nutritional information and range from Breakfast Quesadilla; Flax French Toast; Mexican Pozle; and Baked Pork Chops; to Crispy Oven-Fried Chicken; Baked Trout; New Orleans Red Beans; and Summer Breeze Smoothies. There is something here for any and all dining occasions from appetizers and soups, to entrees and side dishes, to mouth-watering palate-pleasing desserts. While The Cardiac Recovery Cookbook is especially recommended for anyone recuperating from cardiac problems, these 100 quick and easy recipes will be equally appreciated by their families and friends wanting to join in the recovering cardiac patient at meal times.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cardiac Cookbook needs to be updated to meet new AHA guidelines, October 2, 2010

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This review is from: The Cardiac Recovery Cookbook: Heart Healthy Recipes for Life After Heart Attack or Heart Surgery (Paperback)

This book was so out of cardiac integrity in the recipe contents that I couldn't even pass the book on. I tore out recipes that I could modify to come more in line with American Heart Association's recommended Mediterranian diet guidelines. Cardiac recovery is truly a matter of life and death to those of us given second chances. This means those who give advice in any way about it need to be as authentic as possible. Those who write recipes need to be responsible in considering the whole picture of cardiac: low carbs, low fat, low sodium and little beef. I recommend Joe Piscatella's book "The Road To A Healthy Heart Runs Through The Kitchen". Great information and tasty and healthy recipes.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gift rating - parent's liked it., March 15, 2008

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This review is from: The Cardiac Recovery Cookbook: Heart Healthy Recipes for Life After Heart Attack or Heart Surgery (Paperback)

I bought this book as a gift for my parents-- my father recently having had a valve replacement unexpectedly. They have found the cookbook useful, easy, and worthwhile. They certainly don't fit in the "leisure time chef" category but found the cookbook useful and enjoyable.

Eating food that's good for you can be quite frustrating if you haven't learned to be and cook healthy your entire life. This helped.