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The National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Announces its New Heart Healthy Cookbook

Keep the Beat™ Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners

The health of your heart has a lot to do with the foods you eat. To help busy adults and families shop for, prepare, and serve healthy meals, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health created and published a cookbook, Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners.

"Good food is one of life's great pleasures, and good health is one of our greatest gifts," said NHLBI Director Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D. "With healthful habits, we can reduce the risk of many chronic diseases, including heart disease, and increase the chance of a longer life. The NHLBI is proud to offer a resource that will help people make smart choices every day."

Delicious: Dishes were created by a Culinary Institute of America-trained chef/instructor and a James Beard Foundation award-winning registered dietitian with guidance from an NHLBI nutrition educator and registered dietitian. The dishes include American, Latino, Mediterranean, and Asian styles.

Healthy: Recipes reflect the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and are limited in saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, and sodium, as well as moderate in calories. They use lean cuts of meat, poultry without the skin, fish, beans, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, small amounts of vegetable oil, and lots of herbs and spices for flavor.

Simple: Main dish meals take no more than 40 minutes to prepare and cook. Side dishes are made in 30 minutes or less.

Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners is available for purchase ($5.00 for one copy) at http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/healthyeating. The recipes are also available free on this new Web site.

For recipes, an interview with a registered dietitian or chef, or a free copy of the cookbook: Contact the NHLBI Communications Office at (301) 496-4236 or nhlbi_news@nhlbi.nih.gov.

To view the full NHLBI press release, visit http://public.nhlbi.nih.gov/newsroom/home/GetPressRelease.aspx?id=2666

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