500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes : Comfort Food Favorites That Both Your Family and Your Doctor Will Love

Everyone loves the comfort-food appeal and convenience of slow cooker fare. However, traditional slow cooker recipes are high in sodium, cholesterol, and saturated fat. This book lets anyone with heart disease, hypertension, or high cholesterol enjoy flavorful, healthy versions of slow cooker favorites. 500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes is filled with quick and easy recipes for hearty stews, savory casseroles, nutritious soups, and delicious desserts. It's healthy eating that you can love and that will love your heart! Recipes include: —Beef Stew with Dumplings —Shrimp Creole —Thai Chicken —Chicken Cacciatore —Italian Vegetable Soup —Strawberry Bread Pudding —And many more 500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes lets you eat heart healthy with variety and ease. Discover five hundred quick-and-easy, savory, delicious slow cooker recipes to keep your family satisfied and eating healthier than ever.500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes makes it easier than ever for you to eat well and improve your heart health. Packed with hundreds of easy-to-follow recipes that take advantage of the fix-it-and-forget-it convenience of your slow-cooker, you'll discover heart-friendly versions of classic recipes you thought you had to give up and all new eats that will surely become your next favorites.Packed with low-fat, low-sodium, low-cholesterol ingredients that don't skimp on flavor or variety, each recipe also includes a nutritional breakdown, making it easy to track your healthy eating at every meal. And you won't waste time in the kitchen making complicated recipes or searching the grocery store for hard-to-find, expensive ingredients.From appetizers to main dishes, sides, and desserts, you'll find recipes that will make it simple for you to stay on your heart-healthy diet and keep your family satisfied and eating healthier than ever. Enjoy Sweet and Sour Hot Dog Bites, Fondue, Broccoli Egg Casserole, Cannelloni, Shrimp Creole, Southern Stuffed Pork Chops, and much more.You'll also find chapters featuring nontraditional, but no less delicious, slow cooker recipes for heart-healthy vegetables, grains, and legumes, including Bean Soup with Cornmeal Dumplings, Barley and Mushroom Soup, Italian Zucchini, and Honey and Cinnamon Yams. The Weight Loss Plan for Beating Diabetes is a five-step plan that shows you how to overcome the metabolic roadblocks that diabetes creates. Using an integrated plan of diet, exercise, nutritional supplementation, medication, and lifestyle modification you'll lose weight, reverse your diabetes, and look and feel better. Written by leading expert Dr. Frederic Vagnini, medical director of the Heart, Diabetes & Weight Loss Centers of New York, the plan draws from latest clinical studies on diabetes and weight loss and provides recommendations specific to your unique medical history and risk factors. You'll learn:The latest medications and nutraceticals that can get you off the metabolic roller coaster.Tests your doctor should perform but probably isn't that will give you the most accurate diagnosis of your metabolic roadblocks.Underdiagnosed issues that can exacerbate your diabetes and sabotage your weight loss efforts.Based on the plan that has helped thousands of patients, The Weight Loss Plan for Beating Diabetes will help you lose weight—safely—and keep it off. 500 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes gives readers quick and easy recipes for hearty stews, savory casseroles, nutritious soups, and delicious desserts. Discover heart-friendly versions of classic recipes you thought you had to give up, and all the new eats that will surely become your next favorites Proposes a five-step system of diet, exercise, supplements, medication, and lifestyle change to fight diabetes and obesity