For roadsters long confined to supping on giant-sized, calorie-laden, high-fat meals, a new kind of travel “map” is available that can help you eat healthy while driving to your destination.

Forget those Circle K hot dogs and McDonald’s double cheeseburgers when trekking the roads because now there is Healthy Highways – the newly released book by nutrition-savvy authors Nikki and David Goldbeck, who also wrote The Supermarket Handbook and The Healthiest Diet in the World.

Their latest guide features more than 1,900 eateries sprinkled throughout the U.S. that cook with our arteries and weight in mind. The listings are keyed to state maps, which include local directions from popular highways and roads leading to unexpected places that use tofu, beans, nuts and organic ingredients in their meals.

Traveling through Palm Springs or Palm Dessert this season? The Goldbecks suggest a pit stop at one of the desert’s Native Foods restaurants, located on both Palm Canyon Drive and El Paseo. Here, famished motorists will find everything from vegan wraps to soy chicken and pizza topped with “cheese” that’s made from cashews and sunflower seeds.

Or if you’re lumbering up the coast for that long drive to San Francisco, the book points out dozens of nutritionally-sound eateries located relatively short distances off Pacific Coast Highway or Highway 101 – from San Diego to the Bay area and beyond.

The Sojourner Café in Santa Barbara, for example, offers junk-eating motorists some relief from the surrounding greasy-spoon diners, with affordable gourmet vegetarian and seafood entrees. Head further north to Santa Clara and take in the day’s second meal at Dasaprakash, which makes “the cut” for low-fat eating with its southern-Indian fare.

The book effectively covers all major cities in every state and the Podunk towns in between. Eateries include everything from drive-through joints to full-service fine dining, as well as open-air markets, vegetarian street carts and even hospital and university cafes.

San Diego is also well represented for those who don’t know where to find a Henry’s Marketplace or Jyoti Bihanga Restaurant on Adams Avenue, which is one our city’s last remaining vegetarian restaurants – and supposedly run by disciples of Sri Chinmoy. Also listed is Ranchos North Park on 30th Street, a “certified green restaurant” that features Mexican cuisine with an emphasis on natural cooking.

The Goldbecks live in Woodstock, N.Y., and travel extensively. They say that Healthy Highways, “not only helps people eat better while on the road, but it provides them an opportunity to see parts of the country that often whiz by.”

Unfortunately, it’s those golden arches and gas-and-go stops that have become the most visible landmarks on the American landscape, which explains why so many road travelers can’t wiggle into their jeans by the time they pump their second tank of gas.