Johns Hopkins -- The Benefits of Beans and Legumes
Oprah.com -- A Diet for Heart Disease Prevention
The Mayo Clinic - Healthy Weight Pyramid: A sample menu
Oprah.com -- A Diet for Heart Disease Prevention
The Mayo Clinic - Healthy Weight Pyramid: A sample menu
Examples of Healthy Recipes with full Nutritional Analysis / Nutrition Facts :
Chicken Noodle Soup with Vegetables, Low-fat, Low-Cholesterol, More than chemicals !
Can Pizza Americana be made so as to be healthy ? a healthier recipe example
Icy French Pancakes with Field Berries (Blueberries, Blackberries and Raspberries)
Extras from past issues : Heart, Diabetes and weight friendly recipes
The Best Weight Loss and Weight Management Guidelines and Recommendations - a Review
Controlling Carbohydrate Intake to Control Blood Sugar Level (glycemia) - Part I
The hM Nutrition Journal covers the basics on nutrition, diet and recipes for
health improvement
health improvement
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.
ABSTRACT of article : Small and easy-to -make changes in every day eating pattern... big difference in glycemia - or blood sugar levels. Good carb management and healthy nutrition are your first tools for mastering type 2 diabetes and controlling glycemia. They are also of great help for weight watching individuals who wish to either lose or control their weight in a safe and healthy way. (UK: glycaemia)
Salads and soups should be considered as more than optional side dishes. They are in fact some of the best means of incorporating vegetables in the daily diet. This fat-free chicken broth based soup is an example of how to provide a wide variety of those beneficial vegetables . A sprayed mist of olive oil, fine herbs make it a wonderful tasty classic. This recipe was conceived for those who wish to improve cholesterol and lipid levels. Fat-free broth is easy to find, Swanson's and Campbell's fat-free broths can be found everywhere. Complete nutrition facts are displayed.
For patients with heart disease, type 2 diabetes or for people who are struggling to keep their weight within given values, pizza from a fast food restaurant is something they should definitely stay away from, in all circumstances. These have a very high fat (and caloric) content. Saturated fat favours the synthesis of LDL-Cholesterol (bad cholesterol). It also contains refined flour, not the best for blood sugar levels or for one's weight loss target. What would happen if you could quickly make a pizza and, this time decide on which ingredients should belong in the recipe? Your pizza would end up tasting better than theirs ...with a healthy content ! (Uses soy pepperoni to provide complete lean protein). This recipe will also please weight-watching people. View nutritional information panels.
This recipe should be filed in the "yummy" food folder. In the icy treats department, there are products other than ice cream. While a cornerstone of American culinary culture, ice cream has an unfortunate side: it is almost always heavily laden with saturated fat. Saturated fat is not a friend of your heart, nor is it a friend of your waistline. However, if you look in the right stores, you will find icy treats that are made from soy and offer similar protein content, without the high saturated fat levels. A diet low in saturated fats helps improve cholesterol profile and cardiovascular health. We used Turtle Mountain's dairy-free OSD Vanilla to achieve our goals. View full nutritional information / facts tables.
A different and delicious Italian Spaghetti Bolognese style Sauce, a low-fat, low-calorie recipe (Bolognaise)
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 Campbell's tomato soup (0% fat) to further lower fat content to a low 16% of calories from fat.
At 360 Calories per person this spaghetti Bolognese is ideal for weight watching purposes.
At 360 Calories per person this spaghetti Bolognese is ideal for weight watching purposes.
Current articles on heart and diabetes care :
How do Statin Drugs (Lipitor, Crestor.. Etc) lower your bad LDL-Cholesterol ?
The hM Gazette covers the basics on heart / cardiovascular health and diabetes care
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.
This issue's articles :
What are the different Types of Cholesterol and how do they affect your Arteries?
Do Saturated Fats aggravate Coronary Heart Disease? ...( and ldl cholesterol levels )
How to Improve Cholesterol Profile with Psyllium (Metamucil) and Phytosterols
The hM Chronicles cover the basics on cardiovascular health and cholesterol management
ABSTRACT of article: An overview of :
I -The nature of cholesterol
II -Differentiating between the good HDL-Cholesterol and the bad LDL -Cholesterol - for LDL cholesterol, lower is better
III -The effect of cholesterol on the thin lining (endothelium) of the arteries.
I -The nature of cholesterol
II -Differentiating between the good HDL-Cholesterol and the bad LDL -Cholesterol - for LDL cholesterol, lower is better
III -The effect of cholesterol on the thin lining (endothelium) of the arteries.
ABSTRACT of article: When climbing a flight of stairs, Joe finds that he always ends up being a bit short of breath nowadays. 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 potato chips and some off-the-shelf cookies. Right now, the shortness of breath is really bothering him. He starts to realize that, just maybe, something is going seriously wrong. Just what has been happening over time ? What are the common causes of atherosclerosis - hardening of the arteries? What causes a patient to develop angina and what does cholesterol have to do with the development of heart disease ?
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.
Eating well should never mean going hungry: balanced diet
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 ?
The hM Monitor covers the basics on nutrition, diet, weight loss and weight control
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.
ABSTRACT of article: There are plenty of ads promising miracles...often at high cost. What should a weight watching person be looking for in order to assess the merits of those programs or products. Can a weight loss plan be any good if it does not cost anything ? Could it be that the very best and truly scientifically proven methods are in fact the least expensive of them all, sometimes free ? One's credit card was never designed as a very efficient tool to lose, control or maintain weight. This article provides some assessment criteria.
ABSTRACT of article: Some of the diets conceived by leading cardiologists for their heart patients have a common "collateral" side-effect, aside from being very efficient in treating or preventing CAD. Most people who embark on these diets invariably tend to lose weight. They also tend to maintain that new healthier weight on the long term. How come?
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.
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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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How Can Nutrition Help Patient Reverse Coronary Heart Disease? - Part I
Introducing the concept of combining cholesterol-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. Many 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.
What are the Effects of Smoking Cigarettes on your Heart, your Coronary Health (updated)
We all keep hearing, again and again, that smoking is bad for you. That is a very easy thing to say for a non-smoker. But, if you happen to be a smoker who enjoys his hourly cigarette, you can hardly conceive that a peaceful activity such as smoking a cigarette on your patio chair can have such bad or harmful effects. These effects cause smoking-induced diseases like coronary heart disease (also called coronary artery disease) and others. You may wonder if there is any truth to this saying that smoking cigarettes, smoking cigars or smoking pipe harms your arteries, jeopardizes your cardiovascular health and may cause heart attacks and death. Just what are the data and the evidence on WHY and HOW smoking is harmful to coronary health? In order to find out, we will first take a look at how CHD and heart attacks develop, then we will look at the physiological and biochemical effects of smoke and, finally, we will confirm the data with numbers from "Meta" epidemiological studies.
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 sometimes 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 very frustrating to either old-time or newly diagnosed diabetics. Some very famous 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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Weight Loss Diets and the USDA's Food Pyramid
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Category : CookBooks - Heart and Diabetes
Title:
"The Diabetes and Heart Healthy Cookbook"
Authors:
The American Heart Association
The American Diabetes Association
"The Diabetes and Heart Healthy Cookbook"
Authors:
The American Heart Association
The American Diabetes Association
Category : Recipe / Cooking Software - Diabetes Care - Heart Health
"Cook'n for Diabetes"
SoftwareContains 1,000recipes
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The American Diabetes Association
SoftwareContains 1,000recipes
Author:
The American Diabetes Association
Medical Monitors - Blood Pressure - Glucose - Cholesterol meters
Omron HEM-790IT (blood pressure)
HEM 670IT wrist monitor
Cardiocheck Cholesterol meter
HEM 670IT wrist monitor
Cardiocheck Cholesterol meter
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Recipes / Software
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Contains 1,500 recipes based on
the ATKINS DIET and
the SOUTHBEACH DIET
Author: DVO
Category : Cookbooks / Recipes -Heart Health - Prevention and treatment
cholesterol management - nutrition
cholesterol management - nutrition
"The Cleveland Clinic Healthy Heart Lifestyle Guide and Cookbook"
The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center
The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center
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American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide
The Encyclopedia of Food
The Cleveland Clinic Healthy Heart and Lifestyle Guide and CookBook
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The American Diabetes Association Diabetes CookBook
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The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering your Blood Pressure
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Nutrition and Weight Control
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From one of the most famous medical institutions
in the world. There is very serious epidemiological evidence to back up what the Harvard authorities have written about lowering blood pressure !
in the world. There is very serious epidemiological evidence to back up what the Harvard authorities have written about lowering blood pressure !
This is an official Johns Hopkins University Paper,
a bit brief and stern, but rigourously exact when it comes to providing "to the point" weight loss info.
a bit brief and stern, but rigourously exact when it comes to providing "to the point" weight loss info.
Current articles on health care and nutrition :
hM Bookstore
Below is an hM Bookstore selection of weight control related additional reading
As a supplement to the articles in the hM Heart and Diabetes Gazette or hM Nutrition Journal, hM proposes a selection of BOOKS and COOKBOOKS to assist in the Care of Coronary Heart Disease (atherosclerosis), Diabetes, Cholesterol and Weight loss or control. Below are some examples:
heart disease treatment, care and prevention books
View hM Bookstore selection of books / cookbooks on cholesterol lowering
Sample Selection of Weight Loss related books / recipe books
Diabetes Care books
How to Make an Omelet or Frittata that is Near Cholesterol-Free - Healthy Egg Recipe
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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 therefore be a source of dietary cholesterol. Fortunately there are now egg products on the market
that are cholesterol-free or near cholesterol-free. The present recipe uses "EggCreations"TM and an oil sprayer to keep the fat content very low. We also used a lot of chopped veggies and some soy pepperoni. In the heart health version, it has a very low 9.8% of calories from fat. The taste of this omelette is light and it happens to be absolutely delicious ...and healthy!
that are cholesterol-free or near cholesterol-free. The present recipe uses "EggCreations"TM and an oil sprayer to keep the fat content very low. We also used a lot of chopped veggies and some soy pepperoni. In the heart health version, it has a very low 9.8% of calories from fat. The taste of this omelette is light and it happens to be absolutely delicious ...and healthy!
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Icy French Pancakes
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Icy French Pancakes
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Mediterranean Salad
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Mediterranean Salad
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Linguine con Frutti di Mare
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This recipe is NOT your traditional Mac' and Cheese recipe, like the one your average Sloppy Joe's Restaurant would normally serve. This recipe is based on, or inspired by, the nutritional principles advocated by the AHA (American Heart Asssociation), ADA (American Diabetes Association), AMA, (American Medical Association) or the Harvard Medical School's Guide to Lowering your Cholesterol. It aims to achieve an overall low fat content and a very low saturated and trans-fat content. It aims to use unrefined and complex sources of carbohydrates and include plenty of fiber-rich, non starchy vegetables. No butter is used to make the roux. Three versions are presented, one for heart disease care, one for diabetes care and one for healthy weight los and maintenance.
Comfort Casserole: Macaroni and Cheese with Tuna and Vegetables - a Low-Fat and Low-Cholesterol Recipe
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hM Health Care and Healthy Nutrition Video Selection : DR. Steven Edelman MD, and The Diabetic Chef on the subject healthy eating for diabetics, TCOYD
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