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1 for 1 - so far it's been great
I'm by far an inexperienced amateur chef...I tried one recipe so far: Salmon filets w/ pepper relish & anchovie vinaigrette. It took me two hours to prepare a 1/2 hour meal but the end result was great. I'm looking forward to my next conquest. Give this book a shot. Happy Grilling!

Good but misleading!
I liked the book but was surprised by the amount of fat in some of the recipes. Although I believe grilling is healthier than pan cooking or frying, I was surprised by the amount of recipes that had nothing to do with grilling. From salads to desserts. I was hoping for more on grilled desserts that are light and fresh off the grill. Liked the book, but was disappointing in many of the recipes and the fat count on alot of the recipes are high!

Boy gets grill but how do you use it.
If your looking for a book of recipes this one is fine but if your looking for a book about grilling and grill techniques you better look somewhere else. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Barbecue cookery    2. Barbecue cooking    3. Cookery    4. Cooking    5. Cooking / Wine    6. Health & Healing - General    7. Methods - Barbecue & Grilling    8. Cooking / General   

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Editorial Review

If you're interested in being kind to your heart without short-changing your taste buds, here's the skinny from folks who ought to know: the American Heart Association. In the second edition of Read more

Reviews (24)

You've got to read this book!
I received this book as a gift. There are quite a few books on this subject on the market and this one is the best. I too could not put it down and finished it in 3 days. It's a huge book, a great resource that is well researched and written.. I have a few friends who've purchased this book and really loved it too. I can highly recommend this book
American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook, 3rd Edition
Fantastic cookbook.Very good recipes; ingredients in the recipes are things you would have on hand. Using the recipes in this cookbook make losing weight easy because you can still eat good meals with great taste.Very glad that I bought it!!

Best Source
This book offers the best source of information I've found while researching ways to lower cholesterol without medication.The recipes are truly outstanding - I've utilized it for menus for three weeks..7 days a week. I've not repeated a dish, the recipes easy to follow, the food excellent in taste.This book offers a real alternative for those who want to improve their health by natural means without feeling deprived. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Health & Healing - General    5. Health & Healing - Heart    6. Health & Healing - Low Cholesterol    7. Health & Healing - Low Fat    8. Low Cholesterol Cookery    9. Cooking / Health   

Reviews (4)

Alot to read
I purchased this book about a month ago. Only half way thru it, but everything I have read so far has made me no longer a dummy when it comes to lowering Cholesterol. Healty eating and Happy Holidays. Great gift to get someone you love.

Cooking Can Be Healthful and Easy!
I have bought very few cookbooks over the past 40 years, but this one is a must have.The writing style is warm and friendly. I felt like a friend was in my kitchen guiding me into the world of healthful eating. Molly Siple makes nutrition understandable for the lay person and she gives great attention to the asthetic presentation of food. The author has actually made preparing low-cholesterol meals fun rather than labor intensive. It is now my first-choice book for meal planning.We are eating better and enjoying it.
Great Way to Begin the New Year!
Many of us make resolutions for the New Year.Some we keep and others are hard to stick to.I did not have a choice about lowering my cholesterol.I just didn't know how to go about it. I found myself in the Dummies section of the bookstore, and reached for Molly Siple's book - Low Cholesterol Cookbook for Dummies.I started skimming through it and the recipes sounded delicious and easy.I purchased the book and am eager to share the news that I have lost 4 lbs in two weeks. Not only are the recipes easy to follow, but the ingredients are all available in my local market.No mystery foods.It is astonishing how quick some of the meals are to prepare, and I just love Molly's little tips on what type dish to serve it in and even how to cut up a mango.I am having my cholesterol levels checked in February and will report my success then. ... Read more

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Great book, but I wish it didn't have steaming and blanching
I would ordinarily return a raw cookbook that had instructions for steaming and blanching, but this one at least says those steps are optional, and the remaining recipes are very good.
no matter what you're eating style, you'll love this book!
As a kid, I spent very little time in the kitchen so I never learned to cook from my mom. In a rare moment, I once asked my grandma for her recipe for apple crisp. (Neither my grandmother or my mom used many recipes. They just mixed a little of this or a dab of that.) What she told me would never have been edible had I undertaken to make it. I keep the card I wrote her brief instructions down on for memories but I cook because of people like Renee who write instructions and measurements I can follow!
If you buy 1 raw foods book....Buy this one!
I have read several raw foods book and must say this is the absolute best one I have seen.It is much more than a cook-book.
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ummm good
I have only tried a few of the recipes but they have been very good. I am looking forward to the rest of them

No Salt Cookbook
Your service was superb.Never havehad such attentive help, ordering an item.The CD is super.Thank you for caring enough to send an inquiry.francespatterson@Bellsouth.netYes, I am w-a-a-y over 13.How about 70 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!

great, simple recipes
The recipes are easy to follow. The food turns out wonderful and still with lots of flavor. Try the breakfast sausage recipe. I was so sorry to have to give up sausage but this is a great alternative! ... Read more

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Neither fast nor healthy, but darn good recipes
I have celiac disease, which is essentially an allergy to wheat protein, and I've been GF for 5 years now. (Why does that sound like I'm at an AA meeting?) Bette Hagman's books are the first couple of books that I got, and they're pretty good. *GFG-Fast & Healthy* is one of my favorites because it has some great recipes in it. However, I have no idea why she called it what she did. Maybe she lightened up some of the recipes compared to her 1950's style of cooking in the original GFG book, but after doing Ornish (*Eat More, Weigh Less*, Dean Ornish) for a couple years before I was diagnosed (familial high cholesterol), I can't imagine how anyone thinks that using this much butter, cheese, margarine, or butter-flavored Crisco (!!!) could be in any way labeled "healthy." Including recipes for salmon, curried shrimp, or mulligatawny soup was just silly. You can get those recipes in GF form anywhere. Maybe the title was wishful thinking.
I carry it with me on long trips...
A wide range of recipes, a clear method of instruction, the fact thatI'm gluten-intolerant and allergic to wheat and the sheer amount of recipes make this one of my favorite cookbooks.May not be so useful for those without a true need for it, but if you're GF, you've GOT to have this one.

Best all around GF cookbook
I have several other GF cookbooks and this is the one I couldn't live without.Others have suggested that the recipes aren't exactly healthy due to use of sugars, etc., but there are reasonable substitutions and I've easily reduced the amount of sugar in recipes with good results and this assessment really only applies to the baked goods, which we all know are things that should be limited in a healthy diet.I found the suggestions for mixes and other sauces to be quite useful, as it's very difficult to find those commercially prepared and they're very easy and inexpensive to make at home.Having the mixes/sauces on hand is where the "Easy" part comes in.Also, the vegetarian section is excellent and indeed "Healthy"!My favorite recipe is the bean flour crepes, in particular with a chicken/spinach filling. ... Read more

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Health first

You've got to read this book!
I received this book as a gift. There are quite a few books on this subject on the market and this one is the best. I too could not put it down and finished it in 3 days. It's a huge book, a great resource that is well researched and written.. I have a few friends who've purchased this book and really loved it too. I can highly recommend this book
Back to theHouse of Health 2
The author has come up with many great recipes to help you alkalize and energize. I found the recipes easy to follow. ... Read more

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Great recipes - different from most low carb recipes
This is not the run-of-the-mill low carb cookbook.It contains different spins on recipes.I'm having a great time trying these recipes.Heartily recommend this for the serious low carber!

The BEST down to earth low carb book
I own several low carb cookbooks and this one has many great recipes and is not written in the usual stuffy medical jargon that is common place today.I recommend this book to anyone interested in the low carb lifestyle...it has a substitution chart and a glossary of unusual items...any low carber knows there are a lot of "unusual items" on our grocery lists, and it's nice to know what they are!

The best book for the money out there
This is a great little book at a very reasonable price.It is full of helpful hints and quick recipes that should appeal to a wide range of tastes.Most ingredients are common to the lo-carb kitchen, or would be fairly easy to obtain.The sweeteners Sharron uses are Splenda packets, SteviaPlus and Sweet & Slender (luo han guo) which are my three favorite sweeteners. ... Read more

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Reviews (22)

Soooooo Goooood!
This cookbook is unbelievable!I didn't know vegan cooking could be so delicious!The Yin-Yang salad is a favorite, The Peanut Sesame Dressing is out of this world!Try it with noodles too!My husband is sensitive to wheat so the bread and desert recipes are great!It's all pretty easy, too!Ann Gentry is so creative in her cooking!You will definitaly enjoy this one even if you're not vegan!

Fabulous Food!
If you want to prepare vegetarian food that's incredibly delicious, the secrets are in this book. I have served this food to family, friends, neighbors, and taken dishes to parties to share. Everyone always loves it! I am so happy to share with others the fact that you can have vegetarian food that is satisfying and scrumptious. Ann Gentry's recipes are brilliant. I always feel so good after eating this food.
Healthy and delicious!
Ann Gentry's recipes are simple, yet elegant. I love trying new dishes and am so grateful she shared what she created so well in her Los Angeles restaurants.Thanks, Ann! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cooking    2. Cooking / Wine    3. Courses & Dishes - General    4. Methods - General    5. Real Food Daily (Restaurant)    6. Reference    7. Vegetarian cookery   

Reviews (5)

Excellent healthy cookbook for everyone
If you are just looking for ways to make healthier meals for your family this is a winner whether you are a vegetarian or not.The premise of the book is to increase the whole grains, and decrease sweeteners and refined products.These suggestions are good for everyone.
Carb-Conscious Sensational!
Forget Atkins (aka: Fatkins) and SouthBeach, this is the ultimate low-carb cookbook since it's vegan and unbelievably healthy.I have been a long time vegetarian and recently went vegan.I had been lamenting to a friend that I was wanting to drop but a few pounds and seemed to be doing everything right with regards to diet and exercise. She recommended Robin's "Carb-Conscious Vegetarian" to me as a way of losing those last couple of pounds without deprivation.I immediately purchased the book and have loved every single recipe tried thus far.
Carb Conscious Vegetarian is a wonderful addition to my cookbook collection!
I have a very large collection of vegetarian cookbooks and I have to limit myself now to only adding books that offer something truly special.Well, I know that I can always rely on Robin Robertson and I was looking forward to the release of this book.I have had wonderful results with her other vegetarian cookbooks including Vegan Planet, The Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook, Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker and others.I actually own all of her cookbooks.It is amazing how she never fails to provide delicious, simple to prepare, reliable and flavorful vegetarian recipes and this newest cookbook doesn't disappoint!
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Lousy resource
First off, I am on the Fat Flush Plan, and enjoy it very much. However, several things about the plan and this book in particular really offend me:
Lose weight, lower cholestrol & cleanse your Body!
After my sister was told that her cholestrol was 319, I asked what she was doing about it.She told me that she and her husband (who lost 35 pounds: she lost 23 pounds) were doing the "Fat Flush Diet."I asked what that was and ended buying the book.After 18 months my sister's cholestrol was 198 and our family history points at heart disease.I read the book avidly, did the 2 week 'flush' and lost 12 pounds."The Fat Flush" food plan was how I usually ate anyway, however new ideas from "The Fat Flush Cookbook" (which I have since purchased) for making 'good for you' foods was welcomed.Try it as a lifestyle!It makes sense! You are what you eat!

The FatFlush CookBook
Book was OK.Written for everyone, house people, career people, etc.Different occupations require different time allowances. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Books on nutritious eating abound, but none seem as comprehensive as Read more

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Another classic from the people at CIA
To put this review into perspective for you, it is written by a serious student of cooking that has been actively studying food on their own for 25 years.I have been focusing on Italian food for the last 10 years.My favorite cookbook is "The Professional Chef" by the Culinary Institute of America.
the book i bought
item received in a reasonable amount of time and was the correct item.

Healthy Cooking
There are very healthy ideas in this cookbook. However, the recipes usually contained recipes that seemed to have an odd ingredient or two that I don't keep on hand. ... Read more

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To Good To Be True
The Adkins diet works because decreasing your carb intake decreases your calorie intake and it also works by your body loosing significant fluids secondary to increased urine excretions of ketones (from fat burning) and nitrogen (from use of protein for energy rather than the body's first choice of glucose from carbs).
50 lbs Lost, Off Insulin, Feel Great!
1.To start with, I am a Cardiac Intensive Care Nurse and "binky"'s comments were absolutely right about Atkin's death.....and the explanation of the fluid gain
The TRUTH about Dr. Atkins death
It is astonishing to read the slam pieces here about Dr. Atkins so-called obesity and overweight condition at the time of his death. Here are the facts:Read more

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A variety of recipes and excellent nutrition/exchange info
A good general cookbook with some of the best nutrition exchangeinformation.Searching bookshelves, I've been surprised at how few of thebooks (particularly for diabetics) didn't give nutrition information in anydepth.I have a relative new to diabetes and the food exchanges, countingfat grams, etc. are confusing and difficult--this was almost exactly what Iwanted. ... Read more

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Inspiring
I'm not a vegetarian but I found this book a great inspiration. Lots of practical information and clever recipes make this book much better than average. In fact, great.

Souper Book. Buy it, esp. if you have no other Madison books
`Vegetable Soups from Deborah Madison's Kitchen' is a title loaded with significance, for a book by the foremost writer on vegetarian cooking techniques, Deborah Madison. The first implication, which reading the book bears out, is that this is all about vegetarian, but not necessarily vegan soup recipes. As in all her books, Ms. Madison makes liberal use of milk products and eggs, with no apologies for that fact. The second implication is that Madison is turning her name, or more exactly `Deborah Madison's Kitchen' into a brand name, in much the same way as Mark Bittman has turned his `How to Cook Everything' and Rachael Ray has turned '30 Minute Meals' into a brand, with the hopes that brand recognition rather than the quality of the book's contents will get you to buy this book.
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Editorial Review

"I got skinny on fat," claims Suzanne Somers. It sounds too good to be true--a weight-loss program that lets you "eat incredible, rich foods in abundant portions while the unwanted pounds effortlessly melt away." Most nutritionists would cringe at the idea that people trying to lose weight don't need to restrict their dietary fat, but Suzanne Somers and her "Somercizers" insist it works. Fat (even saturated fat) isn't the enemy, she claims--it's "products loaded with sugar, white flour, hydrogenated oils, and chemicals and preservatives that replace Read more

Reviews (265)

This Book Changed my Life
At 16 years old, I was gravely obese at 330 lbs.I was depressed and desperate, trying things from cutting portions to, at one point, eating nothing but bread and water for two weeks.I still gained weight no matter what I did.
Suzanne Somers is giving middle aged women false hope
Suzanne Somers is partial scam artist. She claims that if you follow the advice in her books, prepare her recipes, use her skin products, etc. you can look as good as she does for her age. She never mentions all the cosmetic surgery and lipo suction she has had done. I know a number of Plastic Surgeons and Dermatologists, and they all claim that there is no way that her face and body can look as good as it does for her age without Cosmetic Surgery on her face and body and touch-ups along the way. However, her books with their beautiful pictures of her and her recipes are lovely to look at but she is giving women who are in their 50's and beyond false hope. She should really write a book about all the work she has had done, what it was like, the cost (which the average woman cannot afford), etc.

Suzanne or Marilu--who will be your guru?
I have just read this book as well as Marilu Henner's book.In some ways they are similar: both feature beautiful, healthy, glamourous, rich, 70s-sitcom-starring celebrities. Both claim to have discovered the secrets to health and vitality and slimness. Both are enjoyable to read and seem like someone you'd like to have as a friend. But the food...there's the big difference. Being an aficionado of the famous Eat Right 4 Your Type way of eating I have discovered that as a type O+ I feel much better on a protein/veggies/fruits regimen versus an almost vegetarian (fishaterian?) grains and veggies approach. I spent 6 years basically doing the Henner approach but found a much higher energy level and ability to maintain a healthy weight AFTER I quit eating so much starch and started eating meat again. As I read this book I couldn't help but notice that it is very close to what Dr. D'adamo recommends for Blood Type As in his book; lots of soy, grains and legumes, avoiding dairy and meat and keeping fat intake low. I am convinced that this is the best approach for some people, probably the Type As! Suzanne Somers' book which allows meats, dairy and fat (properly combined of course) works really well for me and probably other type Os who really do need protein to maintain their health and energy. Speaking strictly as a cook and an enthusiastic eater, the Somers book is much more fun. I found recipes in this book that I will definitely use. Therefore, my advice to these readers is: If you are a type O, then check out Suzanne's (and Peter D'adamo's ER4YT of course!) book and enjoy a tasty dinner!!!An aside--I saw Ms Sommers in person in Palm springs two years ago and she looks absolutely lovely.She must be doing something right! ... Read more

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Fabulous timely information
I have been following the SuperFoodsRx food recommendations for about a year now. Not only did my borderline thyroid problem vanish but also over 30 pounds. I feel healthier and look younger than I did 10 years ago. I was excited when I saw the Superfoods Healthstyle audio on Audible.com where I get most of my audio books. I have listened to the combined SuperfoodsRx and Superfoods Healthstyle several times now. Thank you for giving me the tools for a healthy, vibrant lifestyle.
A vital part of the road to great nutrition!
My research has indicated that their are four principles of effective weight and blood sugar management. They are (1) Nutritional balance, (2) Eating foods with a low glycemic impact, (3) Eating foods with a lower energy density and (4) Regular Exercise. This book and its companion "SuperFoods RX" are definitely the apex of nutritional balance. The recommended foods are also highly supportive of the other principles.
Tasty Tidbits
What I really liked about this book is that it shows you how to incorporate the "superfoods" into your life in small everyday ways, in addition to complete recipes.If you're like me, you have lots of cookbooks and health books with recipes that sound good, but you hardly use. I don't want to make a complicated recipe every day. Pratt and Matthews show you how to introduce the health benefits of these foods into your kitchen and your life seamlessly, including simple food preparation tips and "mini-recipes" as well as more standard recipes.Things like: mix cinnamon and cocoa and sprinkle on fruit; or mix pomegranate juice with selzer and lemon for a refeshing antioxidant cocktail.Worth it. ... Read more

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Reviews (69)

You've got to read this book!
I received this book as a gift. There are quite a few books on this subject on the market and this one is the best. I too could not put it down and finished it in 3 days. It's a huge book, a great resource that is well researched and written.. I have a few friends who've purchased this book and really loved it too. I can highly recommend this book.
This book wasn't that terrible, but...
It wasn't very good, either. The gist of the book is this:
Very Nice
I can't say any other adjective for the book, other than it's nice. It seems sugar coated to me, because obviously she has suffered more than she leads on. OK, i see that the results are fantastic, but still, i just can't believe everything she says. But I hope that's exactly what she went through, because it's very motivating. (I think, because for those people who didn't lose as much weight, it can be pretty stressful) As for the recipes, I didn't try them yet, but other than that I think it's good resource. But not for the Gastric Banding! Only for Gastric Bypass. Though some suggestions may apply to both. ... Read more

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