Gourmet Food for Healthy Hearts

The recipes and meal plans on the Dr. Gourmet website are low-fat and low cholesterol. They have been created to help you maintain a healthy weight and improve your cholesterol levels while eating great food.

27/06/08 Dr. Timothy S. Harlan, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, knows how important the right foods are for cardiovascular health.

He also understands that it can be tough to stay on a healthy diet, so he launched his own website,http://www.drgoumet.com, to promote the joys of eating delicious food that promotes excellent health, too.

Harlan, who calls himself Dr. Gourmet, draws on his personal experiences as the chef/owner of a successful gourmet restaurant to provide readers with tasty, heart-healthy recipes. In addition, Dr. Gourmet provides clear and informative discussions of a wide range of nutrition- and diet-related health issues.

Here's a part of one discussion on his website:

"Low Cholesterol / Low-Fat Diets

If you have been told by your doctor that you have a problem with your cholesterol, you have come to the right place. The recipes and meal plans on the Dr. Gourmet website are low-fat and low cholesterol. They have been created to help you maintain a healthy weight and improve your cholesterol levels while eating great food.

You can have a major impact on lowering your total cholesterol while improving both the good cholesterol (HDL) and bad cholesterol (LDL) by eating a diet that is low in saturated fat, high in monounsaturated fat and low in cholesterol.

All of the recipes have had the nutrition information calculated for each serving. The amounts of such things as fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium listed are based on rules created by the Food and Drug Administration for food labels. Those guidelines were created using a 2000 calorie diet. Your doctor may want you to eat less for purposes of losing weight or to help control your cholesterol."