M. D. Steven G. Pratt - Superfoods healthstyle: a year of rejuvenation

FOODS

HEALTHSTYLE RECIPES

PREVENTION

GENERAL TOPICS

LIFESTYLE

Once again, Team Pratt (my wife, Patty, and my kids Mike, Tyler, Torey, and Brian, and Mikes wife, Diane) have played an essential and much appreciated role in completing this book. Torey has been my research associate for SuperFoods HealthStyle, and could not have done a better job in tracking down the hundreds of studies I reviewed while completing this manuscript. Thanks again to the wonderful employees in my medical office, especially Carol Henry and Maurya Hernandez, for helping me successfully manage my busy clinical practice while working on this book. A special thank-you to my patients, who have cheered me on, provided many insights into what works for them (and what does not), and patiently seen their scheduled appointments change when book duty calls. I appreciate the information about kiwis and avocados provided by my tireless patient Mr. Don Rodee.

Thank you, Dr. Joe Vinson, for your careful analysis of the polyphenol content of selected foods listed in HealthStyle everyone will love the good news about dark chocolate! I owe a special word of appreciation to Dr. Stewart Richer and Dr. Victor Sierpina, both good friends and outstanding health care professionals, for their insights, suggestions, and vast knowledge of disease prevention. Thank you to Scripps Health and the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, its director Dr. Mimi Guarneri, along with Dr. Robert Bonakdar, Rauni King, Karen Struthers, Donna Gilligan, and Lori Winterstein, for leading the charge into what I believe will be the model for medical healthstyle wellness care in the twenty-first century. The same can be said for the Calgary Health Region, and two of its employees, Lori Pullian and Joanne Stalinski.

I am blessed to be working with three great SuperFoods partners and friendsDr. Hugh Greenway, Ray Sphire, and David Stern. Debra Szekely, founder of the Golden Door and Rancho La Puerta, continues to inspire me in my own quest to bring optimum health to the world through books such as HealthStyle.

I would like to thank Dave Hamburg, the chief operating officer for Vital Choices Seafood. You and your company really stepped up to the plate when it came to providing and developing scientific information relating to the wild Alaskan fish, the backbone of your business. Thanks to Laura Fleming for educating me on the life cycle of wild Alaskan salmon.

Everyone at William Morrow has been superb. Id like to give a special thank-you to Michael Morrison and to the worlds best editor, Harriet Bell.

No one can write a book like Kathy Matthews. Kathy, I am so thankful to be working with you. Your combination of professionalism, friendship, dedication, wit, sense of humor, and reliability is impossible to match.

I know my close friend, confidant, and agent Maestro Al Lowman is enjoying every word of this book from heaven. It was Al who championed HealthStyle, as he felt strongly, as I do, that this was indeed a twenty-first-century concept.

S TEVEN G. P RATT , M.D.

SuperFoods HealthStyle has been another wonderful adventure for me and Ive enjoyed the help and support of family, friends, and colleagues in completing the manuscript.

My husband, Fred, and sons, Greg and Ted, have been endlessly patient with my preoccupation and reduced homemaking for the duration of this project. (Someday, I promise, we will celebrate birthdays and holidays like normal people.)

Once again, Steve Pratt has proven himself to be the most knowledgeable and dedicated professional imaginable. There is nothing about food and healthy living that he doesnt know. The SuperFood partners, Ray Sphire, David Stern, and Hugh Greenway, have been endlessly creative and imaginative as they spread the word on SuperFoods throughout the world. Mark Cleveland has been an imaginative and eager contributor to the SuperFoods concept with his recipes and tips.

The team at William Morrow has been truly wonderful to work with. Harriet Bell is an extraordinary editorsupportive, energetic, and enthusiastic. Michael Morrison, Debbie Stier, Juliette Shapland, and many others at Morrow have been tireless in their support of the SuperFoods HealthStyle project.

I am in debt to friends who made suggestions, encouraged me, and supported this project. They include Dale Blodget, Diane Essig, Lorna Wyckoff, Maggie Peterson, Lori Kenyon, Jon Annunziata, and the Island girlsJean Drumm, Julie Karpeh, and Nancy Nolan.

K ATHY M ATTHEWS

Introducing Chef Mark Cleveland

Eating well is an important part of HealthStyle, and we all need guidance and inspiration when it comes to putting healthy, delicious food on the table. We are fortunate to have Chef Mark Cleveland help us turn SuperFoods into super meals.

Mark learned to cook as a child from his wise Italian grandma, mastered the concepts of healthy California vegetarian cuisine while in college, and expanded his repertoire of ingredients, techniques, and flavors while living and working in Japan. Once back in California, Mark founded BIAN Personal Chef, a service that specialized in naturally nutritious meals with an international flair. Mark is now busy with his new Avanti Caf in Costa Mesa, California. Marks extensive experience teaching cooking techniques is obvious in the care hes taken in developing HealthStyle recipes.

Welcome to HealthStyle

HealthStyle is a fresh new way of living. It embraces every aspect of life that promotes health and optimism. HealthStyle is not a diet or an exercise program or a few isolated principles that promise youll feel better in a few days or weeks. Youre reading this because you already know thats not possible.

You want to live fully, healthfully. HealthStyle recognizes that achieving optimal health in the twenty-first century is a synergy of information, motivation, good habits, and inspiration. Many people are aware that the current accepted course of much of traditional medicineend-stage care of chronic, often fatal, ailments with drugs or surgerymay not be the solution for a long, healthy, fulfilling life. Disease and disability take years and years to develop. Once we experience symptoms, our lives are often changed forever, usually for the worse. What if you could stop that microscopic cancer cell that showed up in your kidney when you were twenty-five years old and prevent it from thriving? What if by eating a diet high in phytonutrients and fiber, exercising to regulate your metabolism, sleeping enough to maintain a strong immune systemwhat if all of these and other aspects of your HealthStyle resulted in that tiny cell being flushed harmlessly from your system? What if instead of getting a diagnosis of kidney cancer at age 55 after a few years of mild nagging back pain, instead you sailed right on to 60 and 70 and 80, still playing tennis, still gardening, still enjoying the spring sun on your face?