7 FOODS TO GET YOU THROUGH APRIL

Boost your mood and send allergies scrambling this month

"April is the cruelest month," T. S. Eliot once wrote. Clearly, he was a fan of local food. Despite the longer days and slowly warming temperatures, local food stalls are still bare and farmers are only beginning to plant what seems like a depressingly distant harvest. That's why it's all that much more important to fill your plate with mood-boosting foods, full of omega-3s, vitamin D, and vitamin B. And given that allergists are predicting a worse-than-ever allergy season this year, it wouldn't hurt to build up your immune defenses, either! Grab your shopping cart and know that you can rely on these 7 Foods to Get You Through April. Bonus Tip: Don't be duped by sugar misnomers: "evaporated cane juice" may sound benign enough, but it's essentially just a fancy name for refined white sugar. The FDA is even proposing new rules that would make the term illegal. Learn how to decode other so-called natural ingredients inThe 6 Worst Natural Ingredients.