Professional motivational speaker and healthy heart author, Joe Piscatella

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The Road To Heart Health Runs Through The Kitchen

Over 2.5 million people have purchased Joe's first book, DON'T EAT YOUR HEART OUT. Why? Because he speaks about healhty eating and heart disease from personal experience. At the age of 32 he had coronary bypass surgery.

THE ROAD TO HEART HEALTH RUNS THROUGH THE KITCHEN

It is now almost 29 years later, a milestone Joe reached by "walking the talk" about a healthy diet. THE ROAD TO HEART HEALTH RUNS THROUGH THE KITCHEN is a sequel to DON'T EAT YOUR HEART OUT showing how one family altered its long-term dietary lifestyle to manage cardiac health. The book is centered on the principles of healthy eating as set forth in the most recent USDA Dietary Guidelines. It provides informaiton on specific cardioprotective foods from fish to soy, and offers a Mediterranean style of cooking and eating based on whole foods rather than processed. Bernie's 300 recipes are delicious, healthy, easy-to-prepare, completely family friendly, and analyzed for key nutritional information. This is the book that proves good food and good health go together. Says Joe, "I recently celebrated the 28th anniversary of my bypass surgery by hiking on Mount Rainier with my wife, Bernie. I could not have climbed from an operating table to a mountaintop without changing my diet. And I could not have changed my diet without the information and recipes in this book."

“Joe Piscatella is not a physician or a Ph.D., but he knows more about healthy living and the health impact of our dietary choices than anyone I know.”
William C. Roberts, MD, Director, Baylor Heart & Vascular Institute, Dallas, TX Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Cardiology

THE HEALTHY HEART COOKBOOK
Over the past two decades, Joe Piscatella's books have successfully examined the link between healthy eating and reduced cardiac risk. But it has been his wife, Bernie, who has given practical application to the science of healthy eating - otherwise known as cooking! If you are one of the millions of Americans with high cholesterol and heart disease struggling to eat healthy, don't despair. The 700 recipes found in THE HEALTHY HEART COOKBOOK show you how to do it with taste, style and convenience.

“Medically sound, comprehensive and inspiring, The Healthy Heart Cookbook should be in every American family kitchen.”
Scott M. Grundy, MD, Director, Human Nutrition Center, University of Texas Southwestern

TAKE A LOAD OFF YOUR HEART
Despite the fact that most people today know a great deal about diet and exercise, few of us put that information into action. The fact is that understanding does not always lead to behavior change. This cutting-edge book shows how chronic stress can get in the way. Says co-author Joe Piscatella, "most of us are so hurried and harried, trying to balance work and home and get everything done that despite knowing the Food Pyramid, M&M's are still lunch!" TAKE A LOAD OFF YOUR HEART is a blueprint for how to manage stress with physical and mental techniques in order to eat healthier, exercise faithfully and reduce cardiac risk. With 109 Life Skill Tips.

“Finally a book to tell us not just what to do - but how to do it. It’s an incredibly readable, comprehensive and up-to-date guide that belongs in every home library.”
Kathy Berra, MSN, NP, Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention

TAKE A LOAD OFF YOUR HEART VIDEO AND DVD
Spend an hour with Joe Piscatella and Dr. Barry Franklin in this PBS-Produced video/DVD. In this informative and entertaining program, you will learn how to assess your cardiac risk, manage stress, eat healthier, excercise effectively and (if prescribed) utilize current drug therapy.

“Whether you're trying to prevent that first heart attack or reduce your risk of a second one, this information about excercise, nutrition and stress is what you need to know.”
Redford Williams, MD, Duke University Medical Center

THE FAT-GRAM GUIDE TO RESTAURANT FOOD
This book is an indispensable guide to over 3,500 of the most commonly ordered foods. In the book you'll find the fat-grams, calories and percentage of calories from fat for restaurant dishes, from breakfast to business lunches to three-star dinners. It includes offerings from 41 national fast-food chains. And it's the only fat-gram guide to include sit-down restaurants. With its strategy, tips and comprehensive listings, this book is the diner's guide to smarter eating.

"This book takes the mystery out of restaurant food. It's like having a label on your meal that explains fat and calories."
Beverly Utt, M.S., M.P.H., R.D., Nutrition and Fitness Consultant

FAT-PROOF YOUR CHILD - ALL ABOUT HEALTHY KIDS
This book gives parents all they need to know about raising fit kids in a fast world. It provides 7 Basic Rules to improve your child's eating habits. Very practical in outlook, it shows how to make fast food your friend, how to choose the best snacks, and how to lighten up favorite family recipes. The advice on physical activity will benefit the whole family. With over 200 kid-friendly recipes by Bernie Piscatella.

"As both a mother and a health scientist, I found this book to be invaluable. It suggests simple changes that parents can use every day to promote better exercise and eating habits for their children."
Carolyn C. Johnson, Ph.D., Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health, Tulane University

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