Let's talk about superfoods.

In case you were wondering, I define superfoods as foods that have so many healing and healthy properties that just adding them to your diet on a regular basis gives you major protective dosages of all kinds of disease-fighting compounds. These foods are so loaded with antioxidant and phytochemical power that they really deserve the name "superfood." And I'm telling you that you can get significant health benefits by just adding these ordinary supermarket foods to whatever else you're eating.

And every one of these foods can be used as part of a weight loss program.

At the top of the list is blueberries.

Blueberries have been found to have one of the highest ORAC values of any food in the world. What does that mean? Well ORAC is a rating system for antioxidant power. Scientists look at how all the different phytochemicals and antioxidants in a given food perform together and then give an overall rating to the food based on its performance. Think of a sports team. A championship team doesn't win a championship just because it has good players. It becomes outstanding because of how well they work together as a group. The best teams are more than just the sum of their individual players. Well, it's the same thing with antioxidants. The ORAC rating looks at how well the antioxidants in a given food work together and how much protection and value they give you when taken as a group in that particular food. And one of the highest scorers of all time is blueberries. Blueberries are low in sugar. They're high in fiber. And research is constantly revealing their almost magical healing properties.