Good Health Magazine : NUTRITION : LEAD US NOT INTO CHOLESTEROL, BUT DELIVER US FROM FAT : HEALTH-FOOD RESTAURANTS OFFER A VARIETY OF NUTRITIOUS DISHES AND GENERALLY DANGLE FEWER TEMPTATIONS BEFORE CUSTOMERS' EYES. HERE'S A SAMPLING OF WHAT'S ON THE MENU

Healthy eating is never easy in Los Angeles.
Half of the new restaurants in town seem to be Italian, so garlic, olive oil and fresh vegetables are always easy to buy, not to mention the complex carbohydrates in simple sauces. The non-
Italian restaurants are in a hurry to include pasta primavera on the menu, and even a coffee shop can surprise youlow-
One or two fat options.
So, if you can get all of this at mainstream restaurants, why bother with health?
Food facilities?
Two reasons: Health
Dining restaurants offer a wide range of healthy dishes, with fewer temptations in front of customers.
Fortunately, the range and variety of health
There are more and more places to eat food.
Orean express, for example, is a vegetarian fast foodFood restaurant.
Vegetarian places always provide nuts
Burgers and the like, but at lunch.
Counter environment;
Orean Express is flat
There is no meat or food at the Hollywood burger stand, but it is fast.
Quick utilitarian-
Food style does coexist with traditional wildlife
Vegetarian vision.
Scattered in the take-
The counter is a sign of recommended raw
Make nut "cookies" with normal forcing enthusiasm ".
There are many choices for hamburgers: ordinary hamburgers (brown rice)
Another burger made of tofu
Like the gluten "chip" burger in the tempeh substance and barbecue sauce.
The guy I was in line with recommended beans-filled tamale ($2. 75)
This is not bad.
Not unforgettable (
Except for the strange green
Brown color of Massa)
But it does have warm meat.
Like Chili stuffing and delightful soy cheese toppings, it actually has the texture and some flavor of the cheese.
I look forward to one of
Dairy soybean cone but no more Orean Express.
I had a granola. rum shake ($1. 75), a rum-
Add a few seasoned milkshakes of granola.
Not bad either--
At the very least, I'm sure it's better than the traditional leaden carob brownie, which is the main option.
In short, the food here is not more exciting than the traditional vegetarian restaurant, but faster.
Orean Express, 1320 N. Vine St. , Hollywood; (213)462-9945. Open 7 a. m-9 p. m. Monday-Friday, 7 a. m. -8 p. m. Saturday, 9 a. m. -7 p. m. Sunday.
Fast is not fast, of course. Restaurant--
The name seems to mean fitness. -
But its vegetarian menu is very extensive and clearly shows the dishes recognized by the American Heart Association.
Near big health-
Food stores, brighter and more stylish than usual health-Food restaurant.
There are "burgers" and "untuna" sandwiches, as well as some dishes adapted from Mexican and Italian recipes. Spaghetti ($2. 95)
Add mushrooms and bell peppers to your basic marinade and it won't be more sour than most restaurants.
It would be great if they offered Parmesan (
OK, make it a rennetless parmesan)
Sprinkle on it.
With some dishes you can order, such as jambalaya sauce ($1. 40).
It turns out that it's not entirely from the state of Luis Anna, but it's delicious, like a marinade, but instead of mushrooms with some peppers.
I have eaten on steamed vegetables. $2. 75)
Among them, zucchini, broccoli and cauliflower are a bit overdone, and carrots are a bit inadequate ---
This is chewy, but there is an unexpected benefit of a sweet birth --carrot flavor.
Desserts are important for health-food tradition.
I ate a peach cake. $1. 50)
Shaped like a thick biscuit, it consists mainly of oats, peaches, figs and raisins.
There is a pleasant peach flavor somewhere there, but its texture is rough ---
Paste and chewy at the same time--
This often appears in healthy foods and I have to think that healthy foodies like it very much.
It hits your stomach like a bowling ball.
There is room for improvement here, but I do think Fast is trying to make healthy food more delicious.
A broad selection and a pleasant environment will certainly help.
11661 Santa Monica Avenue, fast and natural.
Western Los Angeles; (213)444-7886. Open 11 a. m. -9 p. m. Monday-Friday, 11 a. m. -8 p. m. Saturday, 11 a. m. -7 p. m. Sunday.
SOUPLANTATION is a chain restaurant. the beautiful environment is one of the biggest attractions.
Like the Pasadena branch we visited, they were all good
Impressive range of bright salad bars, kept strictly clean;
No wilted spinach and spilled bean sprouts and no fermented dayold coleslaw.
At the end of the counter, you buy drinks, pay for the salad and decide if there is soup (
Salad alone is $5.
Soup and salad are $7. 10).
Then someone will escort you to a bright seat.
Dining room with ceiling. It's the soup-and-
The idea of the salad was done very well and it was done at once and it had the advantages and disadvantages of this form.
You can choose fresh, raw vegetables and spices (
Including particularly good low
Calorie version)
There is also delicious hot soup if you want.
On the other hand, there is quite a temptation to pig out, not all salad items, and the heat of the seasoning and soup is as low.
On one occasion, Souplantation placed a menu on each table listing dishes approved by the American Heart Association.
But apparently they don't do it anymore.
I put some spinach and a cup of Julianne.
Cut Hubbard pumpkins on my plate and dress them up with a tablespoon or two low
A glass of Italian dressing, four or five cups of fresh bread, plus half and three cups.
Half a cup of tarragon bean salad-
Pasta salad with tuna (
Why would most restaurants make threebean salad? ).
I had a big bowl of beef.
A warm walnut pepper soup
Oatmeal Muffins, slices of melon seeds and some strawberries.
Everything is fine and I will be here for health reasons.
Not every meal, though;
The bright echo room was packed with people passing by, which did not cause people to talk.
Southern plantation, 201Lake St. , Pasadena; (818)577-4797 (
Other locations in Los Angeles County include Acadia, Alhambra, Torrance, Encino, Marina market, Beverly connect and Brentwood). Open 11 a. m. -9 p. m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a. m. -10 p. m. Friday-Saturday.
LOZANO restaurant is a stylish Candle restaurant.
Low-based tapas restaurant
The calorie version of Mexican cuisine.
It is located in a small and isolated business district of Sierra Madre, it must be one of the few Mexican restaurants, and the soundtrack may be Pachelbel's Canon in D.
Surprisingly, the menu was filled with the American Heart Association. symbols;
It looks like almost everything is AHA-approved.
At the bottom of the menu, however, it is revealed that these dishes can be prepared in accordance with the AHA principle.
You won't get the AHA version unless you ask for it.
For example, blackbean soup ($6. 75)
Very sweet.
The AHA version is also delicious, although replacing sour cream with yogurt will make a dish more simple.
Either way, both versions have an excellent blackbean flavor.
Lozano emphasizes the replacement of red meat with chicken and fish.
Great jerk chicken ($10. 95)is dense-
It tastes like spices and peppers.
Here are tomato rice, yogurt salad and sweet coleslaw.
The selection of desserts is limited to cheesecake and yam pie.
No sign here.
Lozano is a relatively remote place where you have to see how you order but it shows that healthy food can coexist with elegance.
Restaurant Lozano, 44 NBaldwin Ave. , Sierra Madre; (818)355-5945. Open 11 a. m. -9 p. m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a. m. -10 p. m. Friday-Saturday.
Cilantro is also elegant and etched
Glass windows and soothing green stalls, but instead of creating an eclectic healthy meal, it shows (mostly)
Traditional Chinese vegetarian cooking.
Usually, this is equivalent to Chinese food, replacing real meat with Buddhist "simulated meat" made of mushrooms or tofu or wheat gluten.
It must have turned out to be vegetarian, but the menu says some dishes are AHA-
Approved, it won't tell you what-You have to ask.
Many dishes are fried with oil (
In Cantonese cooking, almost everything is fried at some point in preparation).
Luckily, owner S. T.
Zhang, be alert to modern healthfood concerns.
Fried snacks such as Fun gor can be steamed, and customers can ask for some dishes that are "fried" with water instead of oil.
Many dishes are made with garlic, which, strictly speaking, is contrary to the Buddhist tradition but in line with the modern concept of health.
I started with a big bowl of Yin. yang soup ($7. 95)
Spinach and Corn Flakes rotate in the traditional shade
Yang mode: pleasure is good for healthtasting.
Main course, I ordered a dish not listed on the menu but always available, Chicken Broccoli ($8. 95).
Black gluten "chicken "--
The bean paste sliced with broccoli and carrots tastes really strange.
One drawback of aromatic vegetables is that Chinese people usually lack desserts.
From a health point of view, banana fritters are not possible and sweet soup needs at least four servings.
One of the best is made of a pleasant crispy substance called "white fungus", which also contains coconuts and is not recommended for dieters.
So, forget the dessert and think about how far we have gone from the time when healthy food was limited to dirty lunch counters.
Coriander hotel 11859 Wilshire Avenue. , Los Angeles; (213)312-1442. Open 11:30 a. m. -9:45 p. m. Sunday-
Thursday morning at 11: 30. m. -10:45 p. m. Friday-Saturday .