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Heart Healthy Holidays The holidays are usually the time when your patients start to eat more and exercise less. This leads to more than just an expanding waistline and New Year’s Resolutions. Being overweight or obese is a heart disease risk factor. Use the following items to help your patients eat smarter and move more during this holiday season.
Keep the Beat: Heart Healthy Recipes from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute You don't have to lose flavor to "keep the beat." Enjoy more than 100 heart healthy, taste-tested recipes sure to please. Also includes how to keep the "heart" in old family favorites and fast facts on fiber, f*at, and salt. Item #2921.. | Delicious Heart Healthy Latino Recipes Learn to cook some of your favorite traditional Latino dishes in a heart healthy way. This bilingual cookbook contains 23 tested recipes that cut down on f*at, especially saturated f*at, cholesterol, and sodium but not on taste. These delicious recipes are destined to become family favorites. Item #4049.. | The Practical Guide: Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults The goal of the Practical Guide is to provide the tools health care professionals need to effectively manage your overweight and obese adult patients. This guide includes 30 pages of reproducible patient handouts containing sample reduced calorie menus, dining out tips, exercise plans, and record sheets. A Guide to Behavior Change, a Body Mass Indicator table, and Weekly Food and Activity Diary are also included among the patient handouts. Item #4084.. | 
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