What is everyone reading at the moment?

Right now I'm reading lots of heart information and diet info'.

Despite having had great LDL/HDL numbers for decades I had a mild heart attack, and a quad' bypass. So off hand I'd say the accepted numbers don't work for me, and it's my previous diet that got me there. So the way I eat has to change.

Right now I'm reading lots of heart information and diet info'.

Despite having had great LDL/HDL numbers for decades I had a mild heart attack, and a quad' bypass. So off hand I'd say the accepted numbers don't work for me, and it's my previous diet that got me there. So the way I eat has to change.

All good luck to you in that endeavor, Brian.  Perhaps if you have any good books or pamphlets on the subject you'd consider mentioning them here as they might help others.  Take care.

Thanks Freddy. Everyone who visits tells me how good I'm doing. I take their word for it since this is a first and hopefully last time for me. I have no experience with it and frankly don't want a lot of experience. I've already lost 20# and want to lose more. For years I have been losing my wind and thought it was just old age. That was clearly my heart; hindsight is 20/20 right? I'm walking laps using our circular driveway and the steep section would have me sucking air. Now I can go up the steep section and nothing... just breathing at a normal rate. I check my pulse and I'm not even 20 over my resting heartbeat. I'm liking the new plumbing. I told my surgeon, "You do your best, and I'll do my best.". I think I'm holding up my part of the bargain. Even when I eat something ready made I'm well under the 2g of salt I'm allowed.

The publications that the visiting nurses have dropped off, I have no idea how to get more of them. No one wants to obtain them the way I did, and that's the only way I know of.

But here is one publication that's free and readily available for download or for use online. Its primarily recipes, but the first 20 odd pages discuss related subjects.
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/...hy-recipes

Genetics may have loaded the gun, but diet pulled the trigger. So things need to change there. The numbers that everyone else goes by don't work for me. I had heart healthy HDL/LDL levels for decades

I'm learning to read ALL food labels too. I always did but now it's EVERY label. What an eye opener. I bought some Brummel & Brown tub butter substitute spread and read the label. It contains palm oil which is a no-no sort of oil. Why would they make a supposed heart healthy oil with a verboten oil in it? My brother tells me that Earths Balance original tastes like butter and I checked it's label today and I saw no red flags.

I dislike what I'm about to write(re: vegan)! I'm a carnivore, but part of eating heart healthy is using vegan recipes. I do not intend, at this time, to go vegan. But they know how to cook without meat. No meat means no artery clogging fat. Toward that end I got "The Complete Vegan Kitchen", by Jannequin Bennett for Kindle. I ate far too many tasteless meals in the hospital (restricted diet) there is no reason for me to eat tasteless meals when I'm doing the cooking. I just need to learn different ways to cook. FWIW, the jury is still out on the book.

Thanks Freddy. Everyone who visits tells me how good I'm doing. I take their word for it since this is a first and hopefully last time for me. I have no experience with it and frankly don't want a lot of experience.  I've already lost 20# and want to lose more. For years I have been losing my wind and thought it was just old age. That was clearly my heart; hindsight is 20/20 right? I'm walking laps using our circular driveway and the steep section would have me sucking air. Now I can go up the steep section and nothing... just breathing at a  normal rate. I check my pulse and I'm not even 20 over my resting heartbeat. I'm liking the new plumbing. I told my surgeon, "You do your best, and I'll do my best.". I think I'm holding up my part of the bargain. Even when I eat something ready made I'm well under the 2g of salt I'm allowed.

The publications that the visiting nurses have dropped off, I have no idea how to get more of them. No one wants to obtain them the way I did, and that's the only way I know of.

But here is one publication that's free and readily available for download or for use online. Its primarily recipes, but the first 20 odd pages discuss related subjects.
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/...hy-recipes

I'm learning to read ALL food labels too. I always did but now it's EVERY label. What an eye opener. I bought some Brummel & Brown tub butter substitute spread and read the label. It contains palm oil which is a no-no sort of oil. Why would they make a supposed heart healthy oil with a verboten oil in it? My brother tells me that Earths Balance original tastes like butter and I checked it's label today and I saw no red flags.

Brian, I just looked at that publication on line and it looks really interesting.  Some of the recipes look surprisingly tasty, too.

Clive Cussler- The Emperor's Revenge

This one surprised me.  I have not seen the television series but had known about the book and heard the buzz surrounding it.  Back in February I spotted it in a used book store, skimmed a few pages, and decided it wasn't for me so back on the shelf it went.

Then, last month, Amazon offered it for free as an e-book to its Prime members and I thought, why not.  While riding on a city bus one day I decided to try reading it on my phone and within a few pages I was hooked.  In fact, now that I have finished the book, I'm not sure I want to see the television adaptation as the story was so powerful, to me at least, that I am not anxious to see someone else's interpretation.  It was because of reading this book on my phone and tablet that I finally purchased an e-reader, the Kindle Paperwhite, something I never thought I would do.

I had been craving a good adventure read so my 13yo son suggested I pick something from Rick Riordan.  When I looked at his Bio I noticed he primarily writes for teens, so I was hesitant.  I looked in Kindle Unlimited and found a story I thought I would like and I'll be darned if I didn't read the entire series!! The Heroes of Olympus is geared toward young readers, but if you keep those expectations it really is a great set of books.  For me it was a page turner and being not to difficult to read I finished them all within a weeks time.  I bet with effort I could have finished them in a few days, but I mainly read while traveling as I'm all over the place every week.

What are you all reading?  I'm shopping now for something more like a nice historical account of early American Colonialism would be best.

Any Ideas?

This continuation trilogy of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials saga started off slowly with the first book, The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage but really takes off with this, volume two, The Secret Commonwealth and now I cannot wait for the final volume.

I'm currently reading this book about a man, adopted at birth, looking for his birth family.

I had been craving a good adventure read so my 13yo son suggested I pick something from Rick Riordan.  When I looked at his Bio I noticed he primarily writes for teens, so I was hesitant.  I looked in Kindle Unlimited and found a story I thought I would like and I'll be darned if I didn't read the entire series!! The Heroes of Olympus is geared toward young readers, but if you keep those expectations it really is a great set of books.  For me it was a page turner and being not to difficult to read I finished them all within a weeks time.  I bet with effort I could have finished them in a few days, but I mainly read while traveling as I'm all over the place every week.

What are you all reading?  I'm shopping now for something more like a nice historical account of early American Colonialism would be best.

Any Ideas?

I like historical/historical fiction as well - I don't have any Colonial period books  in mind, however, I can recommend The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, if you haven't read it its excellent Civil War reading.  

If you like science fiction I recommend the Altered Carbon trilogy and the stand alone Thirteen (aka Black Man) by Richard Morgan.  Really excellent and I wouldn't judge it by the Netflix series Altered Carbon that came out a year or two ago, the books are better.

In the fun science fiction/fantasy line there's the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher - good fun.

Your comments about teen/juvenile fiction are good - I find a lot of the genre to be well written and just good, clean fun and what's wrong with that?