Here’s a list of foods that will make you super healthy, fight diseases and slow down ageing. Eat these to maximize your health
Protect your heart
Grapes are not just nutrition powerhouses, they contain a lot of born, good amount of vitamin C and A, potassium and some calcium too. The anti-oxidants make it a cardio-protective fruit. In fact, the flavonoids in grape juice, like those in wine, help prevent the oxidation of bad cholesterol (LDL) that leads to formation of plaque in artery walls.
Get this much : When in season, have a least twice a week(about a small bowl each time).
Quick Tips: Have grape juice for breakfast; serve grapes Mediterranean style, as an after dinner dessert with a slice of low-fat cheese; add grapes to salads; or whirl them with honey and yogurt to make a breakfast smoothie.
Loose Weight
Yogurt is not just a low-cal dessert for dieters. Adding yogurt to your diet may actually rev up your body’s fat-burning engines, helps you loose weight faster, and trim your tummy, according to a study done by researcher Michael Zemel, PhD, professor of nutrition at the University of Tennessee.
Get this much: 1 cup daily
Quick Tips: Mix yogurt with fruit or any flavouring and freeze it for a few hours; have low-fat shakes by blending yogurt with fresh or frozen fruit.


Beat back Cancers
Mushroom is a fungi that offers a hearty flavour and meaty texture. It helps beef up the body’s defences too. Itsuppresses breast and prostate cancers. Penn State researchers say that mushroom is the only food that contains L-ergothioneine, a powerful anti-oxidant.
Get this much: 100 gm twice a week.
Quick Tips: Saute and add fresh mushroom to soups, sauces and salads.



Sharpen Memory
Fish helps strengthen memory performance and decreases the slowing down of mental faculties as we grow older. So include fatty fish in your diet.
Get this much: Twice a week; or have two capsules of cod liver oil.
Quick Tips: Take 100 gm of fatty fish twice in a week, or 25 gm of flax seed or fenugreek seeds , 5 time a week.

Stop Eye Disease
Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, which acts as an anti-oxidants and experts say that it can prevent macular degeneration and cataracts. Cooked tomatoes are preferable, since heat allows more desirable anti-oxidants intomatoes to be made available to the body. And because lycopene is fat-soluble, eating tomatoes with oil can improve absorption.
Get this much: Have freely every day, both in raw and cooked form.
Quick Tips: Add to bean and vegetable soups; enjoy classic Italian salad( Slice onions tomatoes and a dash of mozzarella cheese drizzled with olive oil).
Block Hypertension
Bananas contain whopping 467 mg of potassium and only 1 mg of sodium, making it the perfect food for keeping blood pressure under control, says a study carried in current Science. Blood pressure fell by 10% in people who ate two bananas daily for a week. Banana contains calcium to strengthen the bones and fibre to beat constipat