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| View Larger Image | The Road to a Healthy Heart Runs Through the Kitchen
by Joseph C. Piscatella, Bernie Piscatella
| | List Price: | $14.95 | | Price: | $11.66 | | You Save: | $3.29 (22%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 601323 | | Studio: | Workman Publishing Company | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 608 | | Publication Date: | December 31, 1969 | | Publisher: | Workman Publishing Company |
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Product Description
The bible used by heart patients and recommended by thousands of hospitals, The Road to a Healthy Heart is the cardiac patient's step-by-step guide to cooking and eating in the real world. Born out of Joe Piscatella's own experience of coming back from emergency bypass surgery—and his wife's determination to gather the recipes and prepare the foods that would keep her husband alive—this is a complete 10-years-in-the-making revision of the classic Don't Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook.
With: Silver Dollar Pancakes, Grilled Steak and Onion Salad, Tex-Mex Pizza, Linguine with Clam Sauce, Warm Caramel Pears, and Apple Cranberry Crisp.
The furthest thing from a diet of deprivation, these 30 family-friendly, Mediterranean-style recipes will help you prevent, manage and perhaps even reverse heart disease, lose weight and keep it off, and enjoy the double benefit of good health and good cheer. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 6 reviews)
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Delcious and healthy recipes 
I purchased this book a couple of years ago and I've used it so much that I've broken the binding. These recipes have become a permanent part of my cooking repertoire. They are easy, tasty and I feel good about serving these meals to friends and family. The authors have found a way to let us all enjoy eating in a more healthy way without sacrificing taste. Enjoy!
August 02, 2008 | |
Family Physisian recommends
As a practicing Family Physician, I have been recommending this Book to my patients. The book has 2 sections, the first part is an excellent resource of helpful information regarding coronary artery disease and dietary and lifestyle changes helpful in improving the health of the heart. The writing is easy to understand and backed by solid research. I would not call this a diet book so much as a Lifestyle change book based on a healthy Mediterranean approach to eating. I have tried a couple of the recipes so far and found them delicious. I highly recommend this book.
December 01, 2006 | |
Culinary choice = health and heart condition
THE ROAD TO A HEALTHY HEART provides cardiac patients and their loved ones with a step-by-step guide to cooking which links culinary issues with health and heart connections, and represents a complete revision of the classic DON'T EAT YOUR HEART OUT COOKBOOK - a revision some ten years in the making. The Piscatella diet is at the heart of the matter and while 300 recipes pack ROAD TO A HEALTHY HEART, plenty of details on diet and nutrition are included too. A 'must' for any serious about health.
March 12, 2006 | |
Heart-worthy
This is the book for those looking for a sensible and doable approach to a heart-healthy lifestyle. There is plenty of detailed yet understandable information about your heart and how to treat it. The recipes provide flavor with their healthfulness. If you want a book with the facts without the fluff, this is the one to get.
February 28, 2006 | |
The book is nothing more than a "talking points memo" for the FDA 
Very disappointed in his research. All of his studies were conducted by a government research group of somekind.
Mr. Piscatella states on page 51 that he recommends Canola Oil. Really? Is he not aware that Canola was developed from the rape seed and is thus unsuited for human consumption. Why? because it contains a long-chain fatty acid called erucic acid, which under some circumstances is associated with fibrotic heart lesions coupled with a very high sulphur content and goes rancid easily (Nourishing Traditions, 2001). Not to mention Mr. Piscatella condemns tropical oils which are high in lauric acid which are not only stable at high temperatures but has high antifungal and antimicrobial properties. Guess where lauric acid also can be found? Mother's milk and we certainly don't condemn that.........yet!
On cholesterol, he's just wrong. Or should I say the FDA is wrong. On page 21 Mr. Piscatella emphasizes the importance of LDL and HDL ratios. This is a typical FDA propaganda tool. In the book, The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnshov, MD,PhD, Mr. Ravnshov states, "LDL-cholesterol is neither centrally nor causally important, it has not the strongest and most consistent relationship to risk of CHD, it has not a direct relationship to the rate of CHD, and it has not been studied in more than a dozen randomized trials..."
Mr. Piscatella is mistaken regarding soy. He never distinguishes the difference between fermented soy products (tofu, miso) and unfermented soy products (soy milk). Asians rarely consume unfermented soy products, if at all.
One thing Mr. Piscatella is correct on is the importance of triglyceride levels and margarine and shortening products. Those products should be banned.
In my opinion, I would take this book and do almost the opposite it says and recommend the book, Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon/Mary Enig, Ph.D.
January 29, 2006 | |
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