The New American Plate Cookbook: Recipes for a Healthy Weight and a Healthy Life,   ISBN:9780520242340

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If you are like most of us, you grew up with meals that were planned around the "meat" as the main course with bread and very few vegetables. My husband's doctor suggested he not eat as much meat and pointed him to the American Institute for Cancer Research website where I found this book. It has been so easy to limit the meat in our diet. These recipes are flavorful, filling and easy which is a must for me because I am not much of a cook. They are pretty flexible too if you don't have a specific ingredient, you can substitute and it is still good. The best part about the book is he lost 15 lbs. My only complaint is the binding of the book is coming apart and it isn't that old. I do use it several nights a week.

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This book is full of healthy dishes that are sure to please! You can try something new everynight and be pleased with the results!

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ON 12/30/08, at age 43, I was diagnosed with choroidal melanoma, an eye cancer that only hits 8 our of every million people. My particular survival prognosis is pretty good, but I'm not taking any chances. Using this cookbook as a foundation, plus 14 miles a week on the treadmill, I've dropped 40 lbs, slashed my triglycerides 150 points, and hopefully revamped my immune system so that should I every have to battle a metastic recurrence of my cancer, I'll be in much better shape to do so.

Until my diagnosis, my sole intake of vegetables was through salads, and I ate quite a bit of grilled meat. No more. This book has transformed my diet so completely and so quickly, it's like being in a different person's body. Almost all of the recipes from this book are super, and even those that are less than super can become so with minor tinkering. You will spend more time prepping food; veggies are just that way. You will probably spend more time shopping, and more money on organics, but I suppose you can pay for them now, or pay for more healthcare later.

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Excellent cookbook. The recipes are very flavorful. We have liked all dozen recipes we have made.

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As someone who loves to cook, but doesn't have a ton of cooking skills or time, I found this book to be extremely easy to follow and fast. Most of the time put into these recipes is in washing and cutting produce. Every recipe I've tried has been delicious, with a huge range of flavors for every palate: Sesame Ginger Asparagus, Greek Style Scallops, Stuffed Peppers with Feta and Pine Nuts, Brazilian Style Seafood Stew, Quinoa with toasted pecans, fresh thyme, and dried apricots and cranberries, Yummy frittatas, Stirfrys, recipes for chicken, pork, lamb, beef ... Desserts and breads like, Gingerbread or Raspberry & Nectarine Cobbler & so much more.

I love just thumbing through this book just to gather more nutritional tidbits of information, and get inspired for the next meal. The pictures are enough to get to motivated. I also might add that I LOVE that this is a healthy cookbook, but there is nothing "diet" about it: they use butter, cheese, coconut milk, sauces, healthy oils and seeds and nuts, just in proper portions. And it's all about variety of flavors, textures, colors and the foods you regularly eat.

For anyone wanting to add delicious and good for you food to their plates BUY THIS BOOK! I'm buying a bunch of copies as gifts!