Harriet Roth's Cholesterol Control Cookbook: Lose Weight and Lower Your Cholesterol

Harriet Roth's Cholesterol Control Cookbook: Lose Weight and Lower Your Cholesterol

by Harriet Roth
Harriet Roth's Cholesterol Control Cookbook: Lose Weight and Lower Your Cholesterol

Harriet Roth's Cholesterol Control Cookbook: Lose Weight and Lower Your Cholesterol

by Harriet Roth

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Overview

The classic low-cholesterol cookbook with more than 350 easy-to-prepare, healthy, gourmet recipes

If you're feeling deprived, bored, or turned off by diet food, think about such delectable treats as Orange-glazed Cornish Hens, Cajun Blackened Redfish, Chocoholic's Chocolate Cake, and many other inspired specialties. Harriet Roth, nutritionist, author, and former director of the Pritikin Longevity Center Cooking School, provides more than 350 low-cholesterol, low-fat recipes for breakfasts, lunches, brunches, dinners, appetizers, desserts, and more. This updated edition of her classic cookbook includes:

• Thirty new delicious recipes
• More than 100 menu plans
• Nutritional information on statins and other cholesterol-lowering treatments, trans fats, and other dietary research
• Invaluable tips on converting your favorite recipes into low-cholesterol, low-fat versions
• Nutritional contents for cholesterol, total fat, trans fat, saturated fat, fiber, sodium, and calories for each recipe

This gourmet-quality, nutrition-oriented cookbook lets cholesterol watchers know exactly what they should and should not eat—providing savory recipes that are dedicated to your health. Bon appétit!

"Roth does an exemplary job!"—The Washington Post

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780452289680
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/04/2008
Edition description: Updated
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 8.34(w) x 5.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Harriet Roth is the former director of the Pritikin Longevity Center Cooking School and the author of the bestselling cookbooks Deliciously Simple, Deliciously Low, and Harriet Roth's Cholesterol Control Cookbook. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents


Foreword   John W. Farquhar, M.D.     ix
Introduction: Newly Noted     xv
The Cholesterol-Control Story
Learning About Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, and Cholesterol     3
What is Cholesterol and Where Do We Get It?     5
Your Cholesterol Level and What It Means     7
The Kinds of Cholesterol: "Good" and "Bad"     8
How Dietary Fats, Both Saturated and Trans Fat, Contribute to Cholesterol Levels     12
How Dietary Fiber Affects Cholesterol     22
Preventing the Hazards of High Cholesterol     27
Heredity and What You Can Do to Help Your Children     29
Are You Sabotaging Your Health?     31
What You Can Do to Help Yourself     33
Statins: Friend or Foe?     33
Can This Book Help You?     35
Choosing a Cholesterol-Control Lifestyle
Stocking the Low-Cholesterol Kitchen     41
Staples for a Low-Cholesterol Lifestyle     42
The Great Cholesterol Challenge: Foods to Enjoy, Foods to Limit     47
Lose Pounds While You Lower Your Cholesterol: A Two-for-One Diet for Immediate Action     55
Directions for Following the Two-Week Jump Start Diet     57
Crucial Components That Make the Diet Work     58
What You Will Need for theTwo-Week Diet     60
Further Advice About How to Proceed     60
The Two-Week Jump Start Diet for Cholesterol and Weight Reduction     63
Shopping Lists for the Two-Week Diet     79
Recipes for the Jump Start Diet     84
Maintaining a Low-Cholesterol Lifestyle     99
Menus and Recipes for Low-Cholesterol Meals: An Ongoing Lifestyle Plan     101
How the Menus Work     102
East-to-Follow Guidelines for a Low-Cholesterol Lifestyle     102
A Note on Sodium and Sugar     104
Breakfast and Brunch     105
Lunch or Supper     128
Dinner     163
Twelve Menus for Special Occasions     243
Mix and Match: More Low-Cholesterol Dishes     263
Recipes     264
Family Favorites Made Healthful     337
Recipes     337
Appendix     355
Kitchen Conversions     356
The Calorie, Fat, Sodium, and Cholesterol Content of Commonly Used Foods     358
The Dietary Fiber Content of Selected Foods     396
Bibliography     405
Index     409
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