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The holiday season is notorious for bad eating habits. We’re busy and we’re tempted to eat from a drive-through window instead of taking time for a home-cooked meal. We’re invited to holiday parties where there will be cookies, pies, candies and cakes. No one wants to pass up the treats or offend the host. The weather’s colder, the days are darker, and holiday stress adds insult to injury. We’re more likely to turn to comfort food. Sure, we’ll all be promising ourselves diets and exercise by January, but you can add these superfoods to your menu now without passing up on the holiday fun: black beans, broccoli, rolled or steel-cut oats, citrus fruit, bright yellow vegetables like squash or pumpkin, salmon, soy, leafy green vegetables like kale or spinach, tomatoes, turkey, walnuts, blueberries and yogurt. Look at it this way: eating more of these now gives you a bit less to feel guilty about in six weeks.