A healthy diet and lifestyle are the best weapons you have to fight cardiovascular disease. Making heart-healthy dishes--from appetizers to desserts--that you and your whole family will love is much easier than you might think.
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Featured Recipes
Strawberry-Spinach Salad with Champagne Dressing
Serve this vibrantly colored dish with dinner on a very special occasion.
Blackberry and Balsamic Chicken
When the leaves start to change color, prepare this earthy dish of seared chicken breasts topped with a sauce made of blackberries, balsamic vinegar, and a hint of brown sugar and lemon zest.
Poached Salmon with Spinach
Place the unwrapped block of spinach on a microwave-safe plate and cook on 30% power (medium-low) for 2 minutes, or until just soft enough to cut through with a sharp knife. Rewrap and return half the spinach to the freezer. Use the rest as directed in the recipe.
Most Popular Recipes
Mushroom Quesadillas
What makes these finger foods so easy to make? You just sauté a few ingredients, assemble the quesadillas, and bake them in the oven. Team them with low-sodium salsa.
Spicy Baked Pork Chops
Fixing dinner is as easy as 1-2-3! Simplify preparation with an assembly line: Place the bowl with the milk mixture at the left, the plate of crumb mixture in the center, and the baking pan at the right.
Oatmeal Banana Breakfast Bread
Banana, cranberries, and orange zest give this bread a lively flavor that will get your day off to just the right start.
No-Fad Diet
You may have tried several times before to lose weight, but without much long-term success. That’s no reason to feel bad about yourself — losing weight is not easy. No magic formula will trim away extra pounds and keep them off. Gimmicks and get-thin-quick schemes don’t work. That’s why, over the long haul, fad diets are not the answer.
We aren’t offering any magic either — quite the opposite. Instead, we offer you the tools you need to personalize a weight-loss plan to fit your lifestyle. You can design your own approach using three key concepts, or what we call the Circles of Success.
To lose weight effectively, you need to set realistic goals and create a personal action plan. Your planning should focus on you, your commitment to yourself, and the three essential circles — think smart, eat well and move more. These circles will overlap as you work toward your goals, and you will need to embrace all three to achieve successful weight control for life.
