This book is a cardiac patient's step-by-step guide to cooking and eating in the real world. It explains how to lower cholesterol, cut fat, reduce salt and sugar, and still eat tasty food. It shows you how to adapt everyday recipes for healthy eating. With this book, you can learn to change your eating habits permanently. You will also learn how to lose weight and keep it off, how to read the new food labels, how to eat smart in restaurants, and more. The present revision is a major one. It applies the most current information on diet and cardiovascular health, and it provides a method of dietary change that is both realistic and effective. - Publisher.