No-Salt Cooking Guru

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writing low-sodium cookbooks

Writing four low-sodium cookbooks was a family affair for the Gazzanigas.
    
Don’s wife, Maureen, contributed recipes in two of the books, and his daughter Jeannie Gazzaniga-Moloo, Ph.D., a registered dietitian and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, wrote a 28-day meal plan in The No-Salt Lowest-Sodium Cookbook (St. Martin’s Press, 2002) using the book’s recipes. That book is now in its ninth printing, which is remarkable because Gazzaniga says many publishers turned it down because it was the first of its kind.
   
Gazzaniga-Moloo, of Roseville, California, has had nutrition clients bring in her father’s low-sodium cookbooks—not realizing that her father wrote them—and express how tasty and easy the recipes are and how much the megaheart.com community has helped them.

“Patients are floored—and so impressed—when they find out Don is my father,” she says.
   
The cookbooks were written for people with congestive heart failure, but Gazzaniga-Moloo says the books can be helpful to anyone limiting their sodium intake.
   
The government’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans advises that healthy adults limit sodium to 2,300 milligrams a day, and those older than 50 stay under 1,500 milligrams. Both of those limits are higher than some heart failure patients follow.

Gazzaniga-Moloo recommends that people work with a registered dietitian to make the diet changes.