Pressroom These articles represent just a few of our many efforts to help get the word out to heart patient's about the very best in survival assistance for heart and as we have learned, Meniere's and other diseases requring a no salt, low soidum lifestyle. heart healthy Living February, 2009 The Better Homes and Garden "heart healthy Living" magazine, distributed widely, features a 12 page spread of Megaheart.com and it's founder and resident chef Donald Gazzaniga and his wife Maureen in their Spring 2009 edition. "Heart healthy Living magazine is a leader in their field and we felt honored that they recognized our work and efforts since 1997," Gazzaniga said. Heart healthy Living referred to Chef Don as the Guru of the low-sodium world and also pegged him the pioneer of the field. You can learn more about heart healthy Living by clicking here. Today's Diet & Nutrition January, 2009 A leading dietition magazine, "Today's Diet & Nutrition," features Megaheart.com and its work with no salt and low sodium diets. You can click here Today's Diet & Nutrition for more information about Today's Diet & Nutrition. Attention Drawn to Megaheart.com June, 2008 National attention has been brought to salt and its damaging effects to humans. From stomach cancer to destroyed palates, salt has been proved by researchers to be a hazard to public health. More informaton concerning this can be found at the NIH, AMA, ADA and other professional research and healthy application associations. Megaheart.com has been pointed to as a leader in the battle against salt and a chief promoter of low sodium diets. You can find by Clickng Here. New No Salt, Lowest Sodium Internatonal Recipe Book June, 2007 St. Martin's Press will release the latest in the No Salt, Lowest Sodium cookbooks from Donald and Maureen Gazzaniga in November, 2007. You can preorder this book now from Amazon.com and have it ready for Christmas. The book is chock full of great international recipes including entrees, salads, soups, bread and other recipes. It also has a complete FDA nutrient data section listing most all foods we eat or use as ingredients with a complete list of nutrient data. New No Salt, Lowest Sodium Light Meals Cookbook January, 2005 St. Martin's Press has released the latest in the No Salt, Lowest Sodium recipe book series from Chef/Author Donald A. Gazzaniga. Gazzaniga features his wife's soups and salads in this book and they have already proved to be popular. "My wife jumped into this project knowing how difficult it is to put a cookbook together. And she came through with some great no salt soups. We use no chemical substitutes, just fresh ingredients or no salt added ingredients such as canned tomatoes and Eden Organic beans. Her salads are just as great. Really, I know it's our book, but these reicpes are the very best you'll ever find when cutting out salt and salty products. Sodum for each is very, very low while the flavors will compete with your favorite high sodium dishes." St. Martin's reported that initial sales of the book are higher than expected and that along with the baking book and cookbook the whole series has proved to be the leader in no salt recipes and cooking help. Upcoming No Salt, Lowest Sodium Light Meals Cookbook September, 2004 – Scheduled for November 2004 Release St. Martin's Press has announced that Donald Gazzaniga's latest low sodium cookbook is due in stores and online in November, 2004. The book titled, "The No Salt Lowest Sodium Light Meals Cookbook," boasts scores of soup, salad and sandwich recipes as well as new bread recipes, spice mixes and sauces. "This series of books has been highly successful because they have helped thousands of patients in need of a low sodium lifetstyle to live better lives and to live longer lives," St. Martin's representatives said. The book was written by both Donald Gazzaniga and his wife, Maureen Gazzaniga, who is known as the "Soup Kitchen Chef." One Million A Month Los Angeles - July, 2004 Megaheart.com has reached the magical one-million per month vistor record for its unique and original website. First developed in 1997 by Donald Gazzaniga, author of The No Salt, Lowest Sodium Cookbook series, which also includes The No Salt, Lowest Sodium Baking Book and soon to to be released No Salt Lowest Sodium Light Mealks Book, each one published by Thomas Dunne Books, a subsidiary of St. Martin's Press, the website has generated international interest for its unique approach to a dietary and lifestyle need for heart patients, those with Meniere's and other maladies requiring a radical reduced level of sodium intake. "Membership for our newsletter has topped 10,000," Gazzaniga reported. "That's impressive considering we do no advertising or hardcore promotional work. And, it's a niche audience." Megaheart.com posts new recipes monthly in a newsletter. It's all free. Already the new cookbook has been credited with getting Gazzaniga from the heart transplant list and helping others to get off the list. No Salt Foods Can Be Tasty — And Good For You By Frank Stevens, Los Angeles California A recent article in USA Today (Feb. 12, 2004) opens by stating that "Americans should cut back -- way back -- on salt..." and adds, "If Americans cut back on salt, there would be fewer cases of high blood pressure..." Yet, despite the acknowledged health danger of too much salt in our diets, the article concludes by stating that a recommended reduction in salt intake of 50% is unrealistic according to the Grocery Manufacturers of America. The biggest rap on low-salt diets is that, without salt, food just isn't tasty enough to suit most palates. The Grocery Manufacturers go on to say that while most companies are working on reducing the sodium in their foods, it is not feasible to remove all sodium from foods because salt makes food taste better. To this, cookbook author Donald Gazzaniga retorts with a loud and clear "hogwash!" "It is a fallacy to believe that foods must have large amounts of salt in them in order to taste good," he continues. "I have developed more than 700 no-salt recipes, tested each and every one of them, and not only are they tasty -- they're healthy. And to top that, we have thousands of Megaheart members who live by a no salt eating lifestyle and enjoy the heck out of it. They're also living longer, stronger and without having to have heart transplants." Gazzaniga produced his no-salt recipes as a matter of life or death -- his. Diagnosed with an enlarged heart and congestive heart failure in 1997, he was told he needed a heart transplant and without one he had only six months to a year to live. When he asked his doctor what he could do he was told one of the things that might help was to get his sodium intake down from the daily American average of about 8,000 to 12,000 milligrams to around 1500. "I decided to do it one better and get my intake down to 500 mg. a day or even less," Gazzaniga says. An amateur chef, he tested each and every one of his no-salt recipes and made them as delicious as possible while keeping their sodium level extremely low. Salt was not a part of any of his recipes. He was a man on a mission because the life he was trying to save was his own. Gazzaniga's recipes were so successful that St. Martin's Press has put them in two books -- "The No-Salt Lowest-Sodium Cookbook" and "The No-Salt Lowest Sodium Baking Book." A third book is scheduled for this year. Gazzaniga has also put a selective number of recipes on his website, www.megaheart.com. Combined with medicine prescribed by his cardiologist, exercise, and the success of his no-salt lifestyle, Gazzaniga not only avoided a heart transplant but he has been able to return to a near normal life. And even more exciting is the fact that he has been able to help other people who are suffering with diseases that call for a radical reduction in their salt intake. Gazzaniga says, "No salt foods can be tasty and healthy for you. I'm happy to say I'm living proof of it." Low Sodium Diet Organization Reviews By Frank Stevens, For The Los Angeles Times Four journalists and publicists from Los Angeles came together a few years ago (1998) to form a support group for "terminally ill" heart patients. Since that time two new developments have occurred that have helped the four extend their lives and actually improve to the point of returning to work. One was the new super beta blocker known as Carvidilol (Coreg). The other was Megaheart.com and it's founder Donald Gazzaniga. Megaheart.com came online in 1997 and we jumped on the plan offered online. Later, when Gazzaniga's books were released we dove into those and they, we feel, combined with the Coreg, saved our lives. One of the founders of Low Sodium Diet (dot) Org had worked with Gazzaniga in the seventies and eighties in Hollywood. After contacting him about his new program and relating his personal success with Gazzaniga's 28-day meal planning guide and using his no salt, lowest sodium recipe exclusively, the group decided to present their thoughts and ideas on their own Web site. Low Sodium Diet.Org was then put on line this year and we expect to bring more help and point our visitors to Gazzaniga's efforts and successes in helping others to survive a once thought-to-be terminal disease.