Diabetic Heart Smart Recipes Make Sense

And if you’re also trying to beat obesity, these same recipes will help you do that as well.

Many times a diabetic recipe is already going to be a heart healthy recipe, and vice versa, so finding diabetic heart smart recipes is not difficult.

Because diabetes can put you at risk for heart disease, it is important to be sure that you are keeping your heart in the best shape you can.

If you are also obese that is an additional strain on your heart, so these recipes are particularly useful.

One great resource for diabetic heart smart recipes is a cookbook published by the American Diabetes Association in cooperation with the American Heart Association called Diabetic and Heart Healthy Cookbook.

This cookbook features more than 160 recipes, including ones such as:

• Loaded Baked Potato Soup
• Deep South Shrimp Gumbo
• Swedish Meatballs
• Devil's Food Cupcakes and
• Angel Food Trifle.

Following is a recipe that can be found on the Mayo Clinic website.

They devote a section to healthy recipes, including in health categories such as diabetic recipes and heart-healthy recipes.

Perfect if you want diabetic heart smart recipes.

They also provide information on healthy cooking in general.

We hope you enjoy this and other diabetic heart smart recipes.

Baked Chicken and Wild Rice, with Onion and Tarragon

Ingredients

• 6 chicken breast halves
• 1-1/2 cups chopped celery
• 1-1/2 cups whole pearl onions
• 1 teaspoon fresh tarragon
• 3 cups unsalted chicken broth
• 1-1/2 cups dry white wine
• 1 package long grain and wild rice mix and seasoning packet

Directions

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.

Remove skin and bones from chicken breasts and cut into 1/2- to 1-inch pieces.

Combine the chicken, celery, pearl onions and tarragon plus 1 cup of the unsalted chicken broth in a nonstick frying pan.

Cook on medium heat until the chicken and vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes.

Set aside to cool.

In a bowl, combine the wine, remaining 2 cups chicken broth, rice and seasoning packet.

Let soak for 30 minutes.

In a baking dish, add the cooked chicken and the wine mixture.

Cover and bake for 60 minutes.

Serve immediately.

Nutritional analysis:

• 300 calories
• 8 g fat (3 saturated, 3 monounsaturated)
• 20 g protein
• 29 g carbohydrate
• 49 mg cholesterol
• 300 mg sodium
• 1 g fiber
• 390 mg potassium
• 54 mg calcium.

As you can see by the above recipe, these recipes can be full of flavor, as well as being good for you.

Eating right is an important lifestyle habit for everyone, but especially if you have diabetes, a heart condition or are obese.

It is never to late to begin eating right.

It is also never to late to start losing weight.

You can begin your journey to losing weight the right way by following these simple steps.

• Incorporate a proven, complete nutritional program into your daily life.
• Enhance your nutritional program with a complete mutivitamin supplement because no nutritional program is perfect.
• Use a behavior modification and motivational program that will help you stay on track with your nutritional plan.
• Exercise at home with your own:
  Treadmill

  Stairstepper

  Exercise bike

  Elliptical trainer

  Hand weights or

  An aerobic video.

• See what kinds of weight loss aids your health insurance covers such as:
  Hypnotism

  Gym membership discounts

  Nutritional counseling.

We hope you enjoyed the diabetic heart smart recipes above and don't forget: You can do this. You really, really can!