Your doctor said eat heart-healthy. No one told you which recipes were actually working.

Every heart-healthy cookbook on the market gives you the same instruction: low sodium, low fat, eat more vegetables. What none of them give you is a way to know, before you cook, how hard each meal is actually working for your heart. You follow the advice. You buy the book. You make the recipes. You still do not know if Tuesday's dinner was doing more cardiovascular work than Monday's, or whether the soup from chapter three was better for your arteries than the salad from chapter four.

This book solves that problem directly.

THE CARDIOVASCULAR PROTECTION SCORE

Every one of the 156 recipes in this book carries a CP Score - a 1-to-5 star rating built on five cardiovascular markers that the American Heart Association and ACC consistently identify as the most actionable dietary levers for heart health: sodium controlled below 600mg per serving, saturated fat below 5g, omega-3 present from oily fish or plant sources, soluble fibre present from legumes or oats, and potassium above 300mg from vegetables or whole foods.

Score 5 means all five markers are met in one dish. Score 4 means four. You see the score before you cook. You know what you are choosing and why, every single time.

No other heart-healthy cookbook for seniors has this system.

WHAT IS INSIDE

156 recipes across 9 chapters: Power Breakfasts · Make-Ahead Batch Meals · Hearty Soups and Stews · Salads and Grain Bowls · Poultry Mains · Fish and Seafood - where every single one of the 20 recipes scores a perfect 5 · Lean Meat Mains · Plant-Based and Vegetarian · Sides, Snacks and Heart-Smart Extras.

Every recipe includes a CP Score rated 1 to 5 stars, a full nutrition panel covering Sodium, Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, Fibre, Calories, Protein, Fat, and Carbohydrates, three comorbidity tags where applicable - Heart-Healthy, Diabetic-Friendly, and Kidney-Safe - plus a swap option, storage note, and one variation.

Also included: a 30-Day Meal Plan with four complete weekly shopping lists, a CP Score Quick Reference Chart for all 156 recipes, a Heart-Healthy Pantry and Ingredient Guide, and a full alphabetical recipe index.

THE NUMBERS

156 recipes. Average CP Score: 4.27 out of 5. 87.8 percent of recipes score 4 or above. 39.7 percent score a perfect 5. Chapter 6, Fish and Seafood, achieves a 5.0 average across all 20 recipes. One recipe in the entire book scores a 2, and the hook sentence on that page tells you exactly why it is still worth making.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

Adults over 60 who have been told to eat heart-healthy but want to know which meals are doing the real cardiovascular work - not just which meals are technically permitted. Adults managing two or three health conditions at once - heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, or hypertension and early kidney disease - who need one cookbook that accounts for all of them on the same page. And adult children buying a practical gift that will live on the kitchen counter, not on a shelf.

This is not a diet book. It is a scoring system for your kitchen.

156 Recipes · CP Score on Every Dish · Heart-Healthy, Diabetic-Friendly and Kidney-Safe Tags · 30-Day Meal Plan Included

Ayomide Adesina