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 HEALTHY NUTRITION / HEALTHY RECIPES
News, Articles, Info and Educational Videos

A different and delicious Italian Spaghetti Bolognaise style Sauce, a low-fat, low-calorie recipe

Yummy! Whole-wheat spaghetti with a low fat, very low-cholesterol, Bolognese style sauce, for healthy cooking and diet plans. The recipe is presented in three versions: one for heart health, one for a diabetic diet and one for weight loss or weight management. Uses whole-wheat pasta and a wide variety of vegetables. The heart care recipe uses Boca's ground soy for a lower saturated fat content and...

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How to Make an Omelet or Frittata that is Near Cholesterol-Free

Egg lovers who happen to be heart patients or have high cholesterol levels used to think that omelettes were always to be off their menu. This is because egg yolks are cholesterol-rich and would...

Can Pizza Americana be made so as to be healthy ? an example of a healthier recipe

Unrefined, Whole Grains,
the health benefits from eating whole grains and complex carbohydrate.

No matter what leaflet or brochure one reads on the subject of either diabetes, heart disease or weight control, the authors always recommend to choose whole-grain sources of carbohydrate. Others even mention the word complex carbohydrates and add to one's confusion. Ooops! Had always thought complex carbs and unrefined or whole carbs were actually the same thing? ...but just different words!

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"Benefits of Whole Grains" with Cynthia Harriman, Director, The Whole Grains Council. Source of Video: General Mills.

Macaroni and Cheese, w/ Tuna and Vegetables
- Modified to be a Low-Fat and Low-Cholesterol Recipe

 HEART AND DIABETES CARE
News, Articles, Info and Educational Videos

How Can Nutrition
Help a Patient Reverse
Coronary Heart Disease?

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Changing our diets can prevent heart disease.
In this video, Dr. Marc Katz, Cardiac Surgeon and Chief Medical Officer for the Bon Secours Heart and Vascular Institute, talks about the prevention of heart disease.

How do Statin Drugs (Lipitor, Crestor.. Etc) lower your bad LDL Cholesterol ?

ABSTRACT of article: This type of medication is now very widely prescribed in the treatment of existing CHD, worldwide. They are also prescribed to prevent CHD from developing in patients who may be at risk. Some people are, for all sorts of reasons, against taking any kind of drugs. In the case of statin drugs, they may be saying "no" to halting the building of plaque in their arteries. This article explains briefly what statin drugs like Lipitor and Crestor do, how they do it and finally presents the benefits in terms of influence on cardiac event risk. In some instances, statins have been reported to reverse - or partially cure - heart disease.

hM Heart Disease Care Video selection: Lipitor or Atorvastatin Calcium, with Dr. Sandra Takami PharmD, USC - Illumistream health

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What is Diabetes? How will it affect you? An Overview of the important facts every patient should know.

Caring for diabetes is a constant preoccupation for patients who have been diagnosed with one form of the disease. However, the results they achieve can vary wildly. One morning, blood glucose measures at 115 mg/dL (6.4 mmol/L), and the next morning it is at 203 mg/dL (11.3 mmol/L) ! This can be frustrating to either old-time or newly diagnosed diabetics. Some professional athletes have achieved great success despite the fact that they are diabetics. They, of course, have mastered their condition. In order to do so, they have come to know the very nature of their ailment. They have a good knowledge of just what is diabetes. Having figured out how diabetes works (its physiology), they can now master it with great success. Actually, their performance is superior to that of the general population. A good knowledge of the basics of diabetes will go a long way in improving a diabetic's ability to manage the disease.

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Dr. Steven Edelman and dietitian Lorena Drago discuss nutrition and practical ways to eat well with diabetes

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Recipes and health information for diabetics
by American Diabetes Association

It is widely recognized today that, in order to be succesful, many people should not only treat the one condition they have been diagnosed with, but should also pay close attention to its habitual accompanying devils. Nearly 60% of diabetics die of some kind of arterial problem, heart attack, stroke or other. On the other hand, many heart patients, besides being stricken with high blood pressure (hypertension) or high levels of the bad LDL-cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia) are found to exhibit signs of either diabetes, IFG (impaired fasting glucose) or insulin resistance.
This is why you will find a Make the Link page when you visit the American Diabetes Association's website. A similar section or reference is also found on the site of the American Heart Association.

A Link between
Heart Disease and Diabetes?

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Do Saturated Fats aggravate Coronary Heart Disease Risk?
...and ldl cholesterol levels?

ABSTRACT of article: When climbing a flight of stairs, Joe finds that he ends up being short of breath. He has to climb those stairs everyday, on the way back from the take-out lunch counter in the office building. Today he bought his favorites : three hot-dogs, a bag of chips and some off-the-shelf cookies. Right now, the shortness of breath is really bothering him. He starts to realize that,, something is going seriously wrong. Just what has been happening over time ? What are the causes of atherosclerosis ? What causes a patient to develop angina and what does cholesterol have to do with the development of heart disease ?

 CHOLESTEROL CONTROL
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What are the different Types of Cholesterol and how do they affect your Arteries?

ABSTRACT of article: An overview of :

I -The nature of cholesterol
( like in the old movie, there is the good, the bad and the ugly! )

II -Differentiating between the good HDL-Cholesterol and the bad LDL -Cholesterol - ...for LDL cholesterol, lower is better

III -The effect of the bad LDL-cholesterol on the thin and fragile lining (endothelium) of your arteries.

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The Consequences of High LDL Cholesterol with Dr. Brian P Kessler MD, Medical Director, Multi-Specialty Practice, and Board Certified General Surgeon

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The best information available on cholesterol.

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol

What is Cholesterol? An Overview, Explaining the Basics.

Contents of Article

>> 1 - Abstract / Introduction

>> 2 - The Nature of the Substance

>> 3 - What is The Utility of Cholesterol

>> 4 - What is the Source of Cholesterol

>> 5 - What is LDL-Cholesterol

>> 6 - What is HDL-Cholesterol

>> 7 - What is the Cholesterol Ratio

>> 8 - What is Hypercholesterolemia

>> 10 - NUTRITION and Cholesterol

>> 9 - Medication to Lower Cholesterol

>> 11 - References

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Guest: Dr. Michael Miller, a cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center who is head of the Center for Preventive Cardiology.

How to Improve Cholesterol Profile with Psyllium (Metamucil) and Phytosterols

ABSTRACT of article: A combination therapy leads to a further decrease in LDL-Cholesterol. Recently published medical literature points to a method to further lower the level of this harmful fraction of the total cholesterol. In itself, this could be a very useful extra in the fight to successfully roll back or reverse coronary heart disease.

Cholesterol-Lowering Substances, with Dr. Brian P Kessler MD - Illumistream health

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Trans and
Saturated Fats
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Katie Kouric
CBS NEWS

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 WEIGHT LOSS AND WEIGHT MAINTENANCE
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The Best Weight Loss and Weight Management Guidelines and Recommendations
- a Review

Thinking of creating your own personalized cookbook for weight control? Modifying your recipes could a challenge when it comes to making sure that your diet plan or program is efficient and healthy. Reading all the institutional guidelines could be tedious. An overview or summary would certainly be of great help. This article is : A Summary of the Current Recommendations and Guidelines Issued by the Major Health Institutions on Weight Loss or Maintenance.

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 Mary Russell, MS, RN, director of nutrition services at the University of Chicago Medical Center, talks about dieting myths

How to create a safe Weight Loss Diet using the USDA's Food Pyramid as a reference guide.

Designing a healthy weight loss diet for your and only for yourself is a marvellous idea. However, you may want to make sure that your winning weight loss diet provides adequate nutrition. This article covers at the same time the topic of successful weight loss or management and good, healthy nutrition.

hM Health Care Video Selection: Mary Russell, MS, RN, director of nutrition services at the University of Chicago Medical Center, talks about dieting goals

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Weight Watchers All-Time Favorites: Over 200 Best-Ever Recipes from the Weight Watchers Test Kitchens

Eating well should never mean going hungry: the importance of a balanced diet

ABSTRACT of article : Some bizarre weight loss diets tend to make you starve and provide totally inadequate nutrition. A good weigh loss, or health care plan should always provide a well-balanced intake of nutrients and it should not have you walking around hungry all the time either.

Is There a Best, a Most Efficient Way for You to Cook Successfully for Weight Loss?

There are basically 3 main types of weight loss programs known to be efficient. Their efficacy will vary according to your metabolism. One method may work wonders for you and not much for your neighbor ...and vice-versa. The truth is: we are all are unique biological specimens.

If you are a strong responder to carbohydrate intake, chances are the low-carbohydrate weight loss programs and diets will work reasonably well for you. On the other hand, if you are a strong responder to fat intake, you will have more success with a low-fat program. What if your metabolism responds to both types of intake?

The Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center
The best information available on weight loss
"Losing Weight for Good"
Your very own Personal Plan of Action,
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What are the Effects of Smoking Cigarettes on your Heart, your Coronary Health (updated)

Controlling Carbohydrate Intake to Control Blood Sugar Level (glycemia) - Part I

How to tell good and sound Weight loss or Management Principles from the Gimmicks

Do Cardio Diets such as the one advocated by Dr. Esselstyn (The Cleveland Clinic) have an effect on Weight ?

hM strongly recommends using the information contained in the articles or the healthy recipes provided on this website under the professional supervision of your doctor, registered dietitian or nutrition professional. Whether you are seeking to improve your general health, reverse heart disease, control diabetes or control your weight, always assume that getting some professional advice from your MD or RD is best. Registered Dietitians have studied the science of nutrition in a recognized college or university. They specialize in health care matters. Dietitians are the best qualified professionals to help you plan a balanced diet and suggest recipes or good cooking methods suitable to improve your health condition. Medical and health-related terms are commonly misspelled : The most frequent misspellings of the terms relevant to this page are: Cholestrol, Colesterol (Spanish), Colestrol, Diebetes, Diabedic and Artheriosclerosis. Add 7901T, 6701T, Esseltsyn; other misspellings: receipe, receipes, recipie, recipies.
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Introducing the concept of combining cholestero l-lowering drugs (Lipitor, Crestor... etc) therapy with a nutritional regimen aimed at halting or even reversing the build-up of dangerous coronary artery plaque which is responsible for coronary heart disease - atherosclerosis. In the news: recent studies point to the fact that the food we choose to eat and the way we cook or prepare it may be very

instrumental in the successful treatment or reversal of heart disease - CHD / CAD . Along with appropriate medication such as Statins and ACE Inhibitors (Altace), the quality, the source and the very nature of our diet is a key element in treating or preventing atherosclerosis / coronary plaque and improving heart health.

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