The New American Diet System

by Sonja L. Conner and William E. Conner

Book Overview

The New American Diet System provides a unique system that simplifies food choices for people with high cholesterol, offer alternatives and healthy subsitutes.

A straightforward, comprehensive resource for anyone with high cholesterol, or anyone concerned about dietary fat, The New American Diet System is an essential part of every cholesterol-conscious kitchen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067175503X
• ISBN13: 9780671755034
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Simple and authoritative, guide to control of high lipids.

Dr. and Mrs Connor are, respectively, a world-class lipidologist who teaches at the Oregon Health Sciences University, and an amazingly competent dietician who cooks each recipe in this book 5-6 times herself. The Connors devised a method by which you may determine, by means of a single number, to what extent a particular food is good or bad for your arteries (foods ranging from fruits to Big Macs) - it is called the CSI or Cholesterol Saturated Fatty Acid Index. You use the book as a reference or as a cookbook: pages of foods are listed by category, with their CSI, and number of grams of fat; the recipes are well-written and tasty. The index is complete and easy to access. I use this book constantly for the education of my patients with hyperlipidemia.