Heart-y Eating Advice For Diabetics-and Everyone Else

The recipes are divided into Appetizers and Beverages, Soups, Salads, Seafood, Poultry, Meats, Vegetarian Entrées, Vegetables and Side Dishes, Breads and Breakfast, and Desserts. Nutritional information-including calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrate and protein-comes with every dish.

Among the tempting options:

Orange And Dried Plum Bars

Serves 24; 1 3/4-inch square per serving

Vegetable oil spray

1 cup regular or quick-cooking oats

1 cup whole-wheat pastry flour or all-purpose flour

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Whites of 2 large eggs

1 orange

3 tablespoons canola oil

11/2 cups fruit butter, such as dried plum or apple

Pastry flour is a low-gluten flour milled from soft winter wheat. Some cake, piecrust and muffin recipes (but not breads) call for pastry flour because it produces a finer, lighter texture than all-purpose flour. Whole-wheat pastry flour utilizes all the kernel (bran and germ), making it very nutritious. Whole-wheat pasty flour is denser than regular pastry flour and imparts a rustic, earthy quality to the finished product. Look near the other flours and baking ingredients in supermarkets for these products.

Learn more at AmericanHeart.org/cookbooks or store.diabetes.org. The cookbook is also available at (800) 232-6733 and most bookstores. A new cookbook shows just how easy good-for-you meals can be, whether you're concerned about diabetes, heart health or just taste.

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