"Healthful" cookbook recommendations?

[soccerchick]

I am looking for a cookbook for my dad for the holidays. He had heart by-pass surgery in the middle of November and is still home recovering. He needs to lose weight slowly and just take better care of himself in general. I went to Borders to see what they have, and they really didn't have much at all. I was hoping to find something approved by the American Heart Association. Amazon has three books by AHA, but two sound very similar (easy, quick, etc). and one sounds like a bigger, more general cookbook.

Does anyone have experience w/ any of the AHA cookbooks? Are they pretty standard, easy recipes? Would you recommend them? Anyone have another cookbook they would recommend?

TIA for any input!

 

[aloysius1992]

Everyday cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish. THe diet is way different from ordinary high fat cooking but it is very healthy. Even if he doesn't do a total change at first but adopts a few new choices at a time it will really help.
WE can't switch between high and lowfat and be happy with the taste of lowfat. But if we stick to lowfat consistently it starts tasting better and the occasional high fat starts tasting heavy and greasy.
DR. Ornish also has lifestyle recommendations.

Also a subscription to Center for Science in the Public Interest Nutrition Action newsletter. It really educates people on how to read a label and has the latest health news short of the medical journals.