The Bonus Years Diet: 7 Miracle Foods Including Chocolate, Red Wine, and Nuts That Can Add 6.4 Years on Average to Your Life

Draws on rigorous nutritional studies to explain how specific foods can be substituted for leading medical "cocktails" in order to prevent cardiovascular disease, in a collection of easy-to-prepare recipes and menu plans that outline the strategic daily consumption of seven specific foods.

Ralph Felder, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of Cardiac Nutrition at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, and a member of the faculty of the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State University. Popularly known as "Dr. Chef," Felder is also a graduate of the Culinary Arts program at the Art Institute of Phoenix and has taught healthy-cooking classes and conducted workshops for the Phoenix chapter of the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. He lives in Phoenix. His website is www.drchef.com.

Carol Colman has coauthored more than two dozen books with experts in the fields of health, psychology, and fitness, including Curves, The Better Brain Book, Body Rx, and The Melatonin Miracle.

Oscar H. Franco, M.D., Ph.D. formerly a researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center (The Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, The Netherlands), is the author of numerous peer-reviewed studies on nutrition and cardiovascular health. He is currently a staff researcher for Unilever in London, England.