Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Ann Applegate (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1999

Liz Applegate, Ph.D., a leading nutritional expert, comes through with clear answers to what we should be eating to combat two of our country's most formidable killers; heart disease and high blood pressure. 101 Miracle Foods That Heal Your Heart is the nuts-and-bolts to eating the right foods -- culled from Applegate's acclaimed Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart (Prentice Hall Press, 1999).

Arranged from Abalone to Zucchini, here are 101 foods that make it to the plate in a heart-smart diet. For each, Dr. Applegate presents a concise nutritional profile, complete with a recap of the latest medical research on its health-promoting qualities. Following the author's Simple Six Eating Plan -- a scientifically sound and easily adaptable approach to building meals around core food groups, including heart-friendly fats -- eaters of all tastes can choose the foods they like best, guilt-free. Many will be delighted to find that chocolate, coffee, pizza, beer, and other "forbidden" foods have redeeming values.

Featuring more than a hundred enticing recipes, plus shopping, preparation, and cooking tips for each entry, 101 Miracle Foods That Heal Your Heart takes the anxiety out of heart-healthy eating to enhance the pleasure of every bite.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Applegate (Power Foods), a nutrition and fitness consultant and Sunkist Orange spokesperson, explains the risks of and reasons for heart-related illnesses, then espouses her "Simple Six Eating Plan," which relies on "100 Miracle Foods." She lists six food groups (soy, grains, fruit, vegetables, meats and dairy, fats), a balance of which, she maintains, will promote healthy eatingAand a healthy heart. Unfortunately, in trying to make her book widely accessible, Applegate seems to have hit the supermarket tabloid market with dumbed-down scientific explanations, including an analogy of LDL ("bad-guy") and HDL ("good-guy") cholesterols to "buses that drive through arteries"; oxidation "makes the bus driver mad." Still, for those who wade through such excesses, Applegate offers sensible dietary advice; most useful are her tips on eating out, including how to order a relatively healthy fast-food meal. The larger second half of the book details the "Miracle Foods," from abalone to zucchini, and offers such easy-to-prepare recipes as Tomatoes Stuffed with Tofu, Fiery Pork and Bean Chili and Caribbean Chicken.
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From Booklist

Counselors on diet for the sake of heart health aren't rare, but Applegate, an authority in the field, commands attention. Heart patients and their families as well as those desiring to avoid heart disease usually pick up a book like this expecting to be flattened by table after table of food values and disadvantages. Applegate purveys most such material in the text, which makes it easier to absorb, especially because it is adjacent to advice about particular foods. Among her hundred "Miracle Foods" (the book has some annoyances) are dried figs and apricots, bananas, chocolate, and rhubarb. When necessary, she issues clear warnings in terms of amounts and preparation. The warnings about beer, wine, and other alcoholic drinks are especially careful. Very welcome are the practical information and comments on ethnic foods, arranged by nationality. Gratifying, too, are the specifying of "goods" and "bads" in the fast-food line and practical suggestions for shopping. Although at times rather cute, Applegate's is much better than many similar books. William Beatty

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 335 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press (May 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735200335
• ISBN-13: 978-0735200333
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,544,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool smoothie recipes!, July 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart (Hardcover)

I took Dr. Applegate's nutrition class about ten years ago and she was so cool. She knows everything! She teaches nutrition science to more college students than anyone in the world, over 2,000 a year. I liked her book because I can spend a couple of minutes looking at one or two of her "100 super foods" and learn something fun and neat to know without having to read a whole chapter. (I didn't know avocados and chocolate were good for me.) Her book also showed me how easy all that good/bad cholesterol thing is to understand and how to keep your blood stream loaded with the right stuff. I trust all her tips and tricks about eating right because she is a professor at the University of California. I am giving my parents a copy so they will live longer. I feel more energetic after making one of her power shakes. Her cool smoothie recipes are great on a hot day. And they are extra tasty knowing they are making me healthier. I take her "super food" list with me to the supermarket so I will buy the best foods. The book is easy to read, and a trusty quick reference guide for information that shows you how to live a longer, healthier life.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes Living Longer Simple, April 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart (Hardcover)

This is a useful refernce book disguised as easy entertainment. It is loaded with the foods that are fun to eat and good for you at the same time. I heard Dr. Applegate say on the radio that heart disease takes a lifetime to develop and only moments to kill and that over half the deaths that occur every year are from some form of heart disease. So she scared me into buying her book! It has a "Special Risks for Women" section which I made my Mom read. Now she is eating smarter and loves her daily chocolate ration that is OK with Dr A. This book is on my nightstand and before I fall asleep I open the book at any random spot to see which of the 100 foods it opens to and I learn about a new food I had not thought about before or one I am already eating regularly and why it is so good for me. Even though she is from a big University she keeps everything real simple and easy to remember. It definitely changed my life and I feel my Mother and I will live longer because of it. If you read this, thanks Dr. Applegate.