There are many ways you can adjust a recipe to make it healthy without making it boring or bland, said Nancy K. Bugwadia, MS, RD, CNSC, Assistant director at Regional Medical Center of San Jose, who develops such nutrition-focused partnerships for the South Asian Heart Center as the chairperson of its Nutrition Committee. In our food partnerships, we work carefully to preserve the original flavor, texture and appeal while enhancing its healthful qualities.

The Center also has developed several restaurant partnerships, providing nutritional analysis and recipe consulting to create HEARTier Choices?„? menu items.

Krishnan, whose company also imports a variety of branded Indian foods to the U.S., said he ™s happy to be in the right place at the right time. What the South Asian Heart Center does is unique worldwide ”just like what we do at Shastha Foods. I ™m proud to be able to support a program that does so much to improve the health of our community, and hope this partnership has a game changing impact on the course of this devastating epidemic of heart disease he said.

Shastha Foods also is the lead sponsor for the 2010 Scarlet Night, the Center ™s major annual fundraising gala.

SOURCE South Asian Heart Center