The New American Heart Association Cookbook, 8th Edition: Revised and Updated with More Than 150 All-New Recipes Paperback – August 7, 2012

Recipe easy, straight forward. Easy every day ingredients, to have, follow, simply exchange certain ingredients one might have usually used, with more heart healthy choices, like cut the lard, low fat yogurt or add flavors with low fat chicken broth etc.

Purchased as a gift for my son who recently suffered a massive heart attack. Diet changes are a big challenge.

Lots of great easy healthy recipes. Love the spiral, make it easier to book mark and stay pages

A couple of years back I bought two low cholesterol cookbooks at a used book sale; one of them was put out by the American Heart Association. But since it was written in 1989, it was before the invention of "trans fats". So I decided to spring for another.I didn't want the Kindle version for $9, nor the paperback for $13. I went all out and bought the hard covered book for $26. If I'm going to use it much, the paperback will have a hard time surviving 5 years, and I find it hard to just flip through e-books and read them, especially cookbooks, where I want to flip back and forth. Just give me a real book and a pad of post-its, thank you.So I got this last Wednesday, and spent about 6 hours reading it. This is a huge cookbook, at around 700 pages. Maybe 450 to 500 pages are recipes, and the rest is verbiage about healthy eating and so forth. It's nearly twice the size of the earlier version which I have, with many more recipes, but it does lack some very vital information which was in the earlier version, such as how saturated fats translate into cholesterol in the body, and recipes for things like lowfat mayonnaise, and how to replace staples of life with healthier alternatives. This book, for example, instead of telling you that you can beat nonfat evaporated milk for a good whipped cream substitute, tells you to use the nonfat whipped topping from the freezer case at the supermarket (which tastes like vaseline to me). These are some serious flaws.The recipes seem to rely upon really amping up the spices to make up for the missing salt; also, many, many, many of their recipes call for bell peppers, to which I am allergic. If lots of peppers are vital for flavor, I'm kind of sunk. However, I have tried a couple of their recipes, and those were pretty good. If you're not a fan of spicy hot food, be very careful with the use of red pepper flakes, which also seem to be a staple of this cookbook.Overall, this cookbook does a pretty good job of telling you how to cook heart healthy meals. Long and short of it: Good, but not great.

Love the ringed binder style

I know it's low sodium, but you need to add other flavors so we don't miss the salt. The meat loaf was almost inedible it was so bland! Some of these recipes are not at all appetizing. Other cookbooks are much better.

Until I got this cookbook.I am only 31 years old. And after giving birth to my daughter 7 months ago (and a horrible 12 day hospital stay), I was told I had heart failure (cardiomyopathy). It was devastating. Then once I learned what eating too much sodium really does to me and causes breathing problems, I knew I really had to stick to my Doctor's orders of consuming no more than 1,500 mg of sodium a day.I never thought I ate much sodium. I was the kind of person who rarley salted my food, I didn't eat fast food, I tried to get natural or organic ingredients, I even had unsalted butter at home. No one realizes that sodium is in EVERYTHING once you really look at it. So when you're faced with having to restrict your intake, it's daunting and depressing. I cried so many times thinking I'd never get to eat at a restaurant ever again. I'd never have good tasting food again.First I ordered the No-Salt cookbook. Hated it. Most bland food I've ever had.Then I tried this. Oh my god, it allows me to eat CHEESE and BACON! (Wisconsin girl here) I am telling you, you will not think you are eating low sodium meals with this cook book. Not only are the recipes low sodium, but low fat too. They really know how to bring out flavors without salt. My husband cooks recipes from this book every night for me, and even he likes it. I've only had a couple recipes so far that I didn't care for much. This is a winner!Also, look up the AHA Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook.

Got this book for a friend who survived a major heart attack ! He and his family loved it - especially his wife who now has to change the way he eats - it has made it so much easier to prepare his meals without beating her brain as to what he can or cannot eat

This is a great cookbook for healthy cooking. I deducted 1 start and gave it a 4 star rating because there are zero pictures of anything. The recipes are written in row after row of text in 2 columns per page. Don't let this discourage you though, the recipes really are great, tasty, and healthy!

We have tried several recipes in here and they are great. A but disappointing not to have any photos of the food. I should have read other reviews on that first!

Good collection of recipes and can hardly wait to work my way through the book.

Lots of tempting recipes!!!As mentioned in other reviews, there are no pictures.Well worth buying!

Very nice product. Will be very useful.