The 21 st -century program for promoting vigor, preventing disease, and extending your lifespan Don't rely on genetics and luck -- let SuperFoods HealthStyle be your guide to a longer, healthier, better life! Like its bestselling predecessor, SuperFoods Rx , SuperFoods HealthStyle translates the most recent cutting-edge research into simple recommendations that you can use to vastly improve your physical and mental health. And now there are 10 more SuperFoods to add to the original list of 14: Avocados - Cinnamon - Dark Chocolate - Dates - Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Garlic - Honey - Kiwi - Onions - Pomegranates With SuperFoods HealthStyle you'll learn: How ordinary spices like black pepper and cinnamon can make you healthier - How poor sleep habits could be sabotaging your overall health - How the simplest imaginable exercise program can be the most effective - Why paying attention to one simple aspect of eating could be the answer to weight control Be as active at seventy as you are at thirty-five with SuperFoods HealthStyle -- and get the most out of life for the rest of your life. The 21 st -century program for promoting vigor, preventing disease, and extending your lifespan Don't rely on genetics and luck -- let SuperFoods HealthStyle be your guide to a longer, healthier, better life! Like its bestselling predecessor, SuperFoods Rx , SuperFoods HealthStyle translates the most recent cutting-edge research into simple recommendations that you can use to vastly improve your physical and mental health. And now there are 10 more SuperFoods to add to the original list of 14: Avocados - Cinnamon - Dark Chocolate - Dates - Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Garlic - Honey - Kiwi - Onions - Pomegranates With SuperFoods HealthStyle you'll learn: How ordinary spices like black pepper and cinnamon can make you healthier - How poor sleep habits could be sabotaging your overall health - How the simplest imaginable exercise program can be the most effective - Why paying attention to one simple aspect of eating could be the answer to weight control Be as active at seventy as you are at thirty-five with SuperFoods HealthStyle -- and get the most out of life for the rest of your life. Steven G. Pratt, M.D., is a world-renowned authority on the role of nutrition and lifestyle in the prevention of disease and optimization of health. He is a senior staff ophthalmologist at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California. Kathy Matthews is a bestselling author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestseller SuperFoods Rx with Dr. Steven Pratt. Superfoods Healthstyle Simple Changes to Get the Most Out of Life for the Rest of Your Life By Steven G. Pratt HarperCollins Publishers Copyright © 2007 Steven G. Pratt All right reserved. ISBN: 9780060755492 Chapter One Winter: Season of Resolution Though the poets may claim that April is the cruelest month, HealthStylers would no doubt pick December. And January, February, and maybe some of March. Winter can be hard on our health. We tend to be less physically active because inclement or cold weather keeps us indoors. We are tempted with holiday foods that we wouldn't dream of eating other times of the year. The days are shorter: Less daylight makes outdoor exercise a challenge while it promotes more TV watching and thus more snacking. Reduced sunlight affects our moods, making some of us less optimistic and less committed to health goals. Some of us even suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder), which makes reduced sunlight an actual health risk. Don't despair! Winter does have its special beneficial rhythms. We seek warmth in winter -- of every kind. Winter draws us inward. We can seize opportunities to be more reflective. Long evenings encourage more family and social time -- time to reconnect and cherish the important relationships in our lives. Exciting new evidence demonstrates that these important social contacts keep us healthy as well as happy. The winter holidays are a time of spiritual renewal and give us an opportunity to connect with an often neglected aspect of health -- spirituality, or, as we discuss in HealthStyle, Personal Peace. Winter is a perfect time to take stock, make resolutions, and look to a healthier new year. We're about to show you that you can come through winter in healthy style with new and reinforced good health habits. Winter is the time to focus on some new and delicious SuperFoods that will make achieving optimum nutritional health a pleasure. We've got some warming recipes that feature the winter SuperFoods along with some SuperSpices that have impressive health benefits. Just a sprinkle of cinnamon on your morning oatmeal could help control your blood sugar levels and have other positive effects on your health. Here's the really good news: Chocolate is a SuperFood. The beneficial polyphenols in chocolate make it a powerful health promoter. What could be a better winter treat -- fo