The Handbook of Practical Low-Salt Living: Or How to Follow Doctor’s Orders Without Really Suffering

For many Americans, salt is poison. If you have heart failure, you're one of them. In this book, you'll find down-to-earth, practical information on why salt is bad for people like you and demonstrates easy and creative ways for you to control its consumption. Inside, you'll find inspiration and support, along with solid, scientifically based information presented with a humorous tone. You won't find tofu, soy, or bulgur wheat in any of the recipes, but we're pretty sure you won't miss them. This guide is packed with more than 365 tasty, tried-and-true recipes (with sodium analyses for all) and menus that show you how possible it really is to improve your health, well-being, and quality of life by thinking of a low-sodium diet in a different way. You can feel better and decrease your risk of hospital visits by making low-salt living your way of life, and this book will support you at every step. You can do it, and you don't have to suffer while you do This educational cookbook is beautifully designed and easy to read. You'll find a comprehensive sodium-content listing plus a detailed, cross-referenced index to help you find the perfect recipe. "The Handbook of Low-Salt Living," now in its 3rd edition, is available to the public for the first time, so you can use the same book hospitals give to their heart failure patients. You'll find it so essential to your meal planning and cooking, it will undoubtedly become a fixture on your kitchen countertop.

Coleen Balch, MSN, RN-BC, ANP, AACC, is certified by New York State as an adult nurse practitioner. She has been practicing at a large upstate New York teaching hospital since 1995, where she was the first cardiology service nurse practitioner. Coleen’s first love has always been cardiology. She worked for 17 years in an intensive care unit for cardiac patients prior to graduating from NP school, and she continues to manage cardiac patients at the same distinguished hospital. Throughout her career, Coleen has taught many courses in cardiac health subjects for professionals and for patients and their families, espe-cially related to con-ges-tive heart failure. Coleen is a skilled cook whose recipes have been featured in several national publications.