QandAs: Food

Where can I find healthy recipes?

Answer:

There are many excellent placed to find healthy recipes

on the Internet. The Internet is a great source for healthy recipes, because it is easy to find recipes that address your specific health concerns. Of course, the fact that the recipes you find online are free is an added benefit!

One of the best sources for healthy recipes is the Healthy Recipes Center on Mayo Clinic’s website (www.mayoclinic.com ). Users can search an extensive database of healthy recipes based on specific health concerns or dietary needs, such as high fiber, low fat, meatless, heart healthy, healthy carb, weight management, and more. Users can also search for recipes by ingredient, course, meal type, and more.

The Mayo Clinic’s Healthy Recipes Center also provides information on how you can convert your favorite recipes to be more healthy. Available information includes ideas for recipe makeovers and suggestions for substituting ingredients in traditional recipes to make them more healthy.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) website also features an easily searched online collection of healthy recipes, available at www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/ . The NIH recipe collection features a large selection recipes designed to promote heart health.

Prevention Magazine’s website features an extensive database of healthy recipes, which can be viewed at www.prevention.com/recipemain . A particularly interesting feature of Prevention’s database is the option search recipes by lifestyle. The lifestyle search allows users to search for recipes that can help ease menopause, combat depression, reduce cancer risk, control PMS, and more. Users can also search Prevention’s database by type of diet, cooking method, main ingredient, meal, course, and type of cuisine.

Many organizations that are focused on helping individuals with specific health concerns also offer selections of online recipes. For example, the American Diabetes Association has an extensive selection of online recipes beneficial for people who have or are interested in preventing diabetes. These recipes can be viewed at http://vgs.diabetes.org .

An excellent way to find recipes specific to your health concerns is to do an Internet search using the word recipe and the name of the condition. For example, and internet search for “recipe cancer” will yield links to a variety of resources for online cancer recipes.

There are so many resources for healthy recipes online. A simple Internet search is an easy and convenient way to find unique and tasty healthy recipes at no cost. You have no excuse not to eat healthy!