Quick & Healthy Recipes Volume II: More Help for People Who Say They Don't Have Time to Cook Healthy Meals »

Brenda J. Ponichtera is a registered dietitian and award-winning author

with extensive experience in nutrition and diabetes counseling. An

editorial advisor for Today's Diet and Nutrition, she is also active

member of the American Dietetic Association and the American Diabetes

Association. Her cookbooks - Quick & Healthy Recipes and Ideas AND

Quick & Healthy Volume II - both Benjamin Franklin Award winners - are

designed to prove that healthful eating doesn't have to take a lot of

time in the kitchen. They have been recommended in publications such as

"O" The Oprah Magazine, Cooking Light, Miami Herald, Shape magazine,

and USA Today, as well as by health care professionals, and busy cooks

across the country.

Over 750,000 copies of Quick and Healthy Vols. I and II sold

This second edition of this best-seller includes ten weeks of easy

low-fat dinner menus, each with a grocery list AND over 100 menus

listed by category. Designed for busy people with lots of good

intentions and little time to cook, Volume II also offers over 200

easy, low-fat recipes and lots of tips to make healthy eating easier

than ever. It includes practical nutrition information to improve your

health, including tips to reduce fat, guidelines for changing recipes,

tips for eating out and holiday guidelines; a worksheet for determining

ideal weight, calorie needs and recommended fat grams; recipes listed

by grams of carbohydrate; food exchanges for weight loss and diabetes;

and much more! It's also perfect for anyone wanting to lose weight or

anyone with heart disease or diabetes. Quick & Healthy Volume II and

its companion, Quick & Healthy Recipes and Ideas, are both Benjamin

Franklin Award winners and are two cookbooks dietitians and physicians

are recommending to all their patients.

"My patients love cooking with this cookbook! Quick & Healthy Volume

II is a great addition to any kitchen!"
Georgia Kostas, MPH, RD,

Nutrition Director, Cooper Clinic, Dallas, TX

My favorite cookbooks focused on healthy, quick recipes include the

Quick & Healthy series by Brenda J. Ponichtera.
-David L. Katz, MD,

director of Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, medical consultant for ABC News, and

columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine