"Peanut Butter: The food that kids love is, in fact, healthy for you. Nuts are packed with omega-3 fatty acids, which can help fight heart disease. Almonds, in particular, are known for lowering cholesterol."

1. Peanuts aren't nuts

2. Hydrogenated fats aren't good for you.

Natural/Organic/Non-hydrogenated peanut butter, sure.

That's a very concise list there I have heard of some substitute chocolate but, not that paticular one that is mentioned, never tried apricots.

#5 Cacao does not belong on this list.  There is no way in hell caffeine is healthy for you - its a toxin and highly addictive.  It will make your thoughts race, make you hyperactive, then fatigued, paranoid, quick to anger... and if you keep eating it, it will kill you.   If you feed chocolate to dogs it will kill them.   Not to mention its highly addictive...  look up the wikipedia entry on "Drug Addiction", and you'll see caffeine listed.  Or do a Youtube search for "psychetruth caffeine".  Worse, caffeine is refined out of cacao plantes when decafinating coffee, and pumped into high fructose loaded corn syrup soft drinks, and soft drinks are toxic as hell.  Tell any nutritionist you drink a soft drink a day (or five, like I was) and look at the pained expression of horror that comes over their face; that should give you some idea.

I love the list I was surprised that sprouts were not high on the list?! or flax seed meal? or smoked salmon?

Which are two easy ad-on items which are so benificial for a healthful diet which I swear by ; sprouts, of all sorts alfalfa, mustard, broccoli etc live food and greens grown right in the kitchen that are easily obtainable and flax meal added to cereals and used often as an adjunct to breadcrumbs (on in place of) has a nutty flavor, high in oils and both items mentioned keep you as regular as a clock!

I get the frozen wild (Maine) Blueberries a shy cup unsweetened yogurt (also shy cup) 1/3-1/2 cup flax meal, tablespoon honey, tablespoon tahini minced sunflower seeds and mix (thaw berries), this is one of my lunches.

The other staple is smoked salmon with balsamic  vinegar on the bed of sprouts.  yum.

The article reminds me that so often the food producers used tactics for the marketplace and welfare of the food product sold, not the welfare of the consumers of said foods, additives like hydrogenated oils, sugars, corn syrup,  sulphurs etc, so if one looks @ what's often touted as food is not truly fit for healthful living but a contributor to disease . 

Thank you for the great reminders to eat well, one's health depends on it.

I'm glad to see that Avacado's made the list... many people just don't understand how nutritious they are for you. 

Another food that wasn't mentioned is Goji Berries. They are like a superpacked BlueBerry.. 

I like the list of foods and I am glad to see that avocado was on the list.  Avocados are very nutritional.  Also look at the benefits of tofu, high in protein, low in saturated fats, a good source of Vitamin E and may play a great role in preventing various types of cancer.

The truth is nothing is good for everybody.Every persons body and chemistry is different.Some of these "Healthy foods" could kill some people.Do what is right for you,and stop trusting these lists!

I do see some missing links on the list and would like to ad another speaking a SUPER FOODS & of lowering /stabilizing glucose levels a level teaspoon of spirulina will do just that and and I did not find it in a book I noticed the affect to my sugars as consistently benificial yet un mentioned mode of doing just that. I went to the site that the above poster Len mentions  and sure enough there are research papers stating that.  Thanks for the link Len.

So Gary & Kim you may want to look at the papers on the site mentioned the  cinnamon and certainly for the Spirulina which was news to me, I tend to side with Len that the Big Pharmas  do not want to support other than what they are so heavily invested  in.  The other thing to note is the quality of the cinnamon and potency and consistentancy of nutritional value could vary greatly. One could say that about spirulina as well.

the snipped addy for that paper http://snipurl.com/spirulina_glucose  

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Your suggestions are small but very effective. I like your smart work and  description. I would also want to introduce to you about The hit book The 150 Healthiest Foods on Eart by Jonny Bowden is a great resource, because it highlights the health benefits of many everyday foods.

The American Diabetes Association in alliance with BIG PHARM inc. skews and falsifies their own own studies in order to..... get you to buy expensive drugs to control your diabetes. Cinnimon is pretty cheap stuff. Not to mention delicious (doesn't taste like medicine to me). SO bad for business ;-)

FOLLOW THE $$

This is an excellent article.  I eat as many super foods as I can.  I also did an article on them here:

http://red-icculus.com/?p=29

Goveg.com

I find this and others about caffeine in raw cacao beans: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90161999000300021

Hi Everyone, Here are a few nutritional facts on raw cocoa and where to buy it.  I have never tried it but from what I read, it does taste toatally different from the processed cocoa.

Omega-6, -9 fatty acid (oil) should be consumed at a minimum/avoided and offset by fatty acids high in omega-3. The goal is to consume the highest ratio of omega-3 to omega-6,-9. Peanut butter and oil is one of the worst providers of omega-6 with only a trace of omega-3. Even a peanut-promoter site doesn't hide this bad news: http://www.peanut-institute.org/NutritionBasics.html For the same reason, corn, corn oil, corn products, safflower oil, soy and soy oil, canola oil, sunflower oil are to be minimized or avoided. Grain-fed meat and dairy, fed perversely on corn/soy and their oils, (cows evolved eating low-carb leaves, not calorie-dense seeds) are all high in omega-6,-9 and low/no omega-3. Grass-feed beef and dairy is acutally healthful, therapeutic.

is it true that a tablespoon of peanut butter before bed can keep your metabolism going while you sleep?

What a yummy list of food! I adore avocados but so often am disappointed by them being not quite ripe! Perhaps I should move to a country where I could grow my own avocados? And chocolate - mmm I could live on a chocolate and avocado plantation!

If you would like to have a more complete list you have to add stabilized rice bran. It is nutrient-dense, non-allergenic, and versitile in application. I suggest the soluble form if you're going to drink it like a milk. If you are going to add it into a shake/smoothie, then go with the version with both soluble and insoluble fiber.

I like eating salmon or chicken for breakfast. Yes it sounds odd, but then I am energized for the whole day!

Here is the nutritional breakdown of apricots.  

We need to keep in mind that this list is of common, everyday foods.  

If you walk down the aile of Whole Foods, there are many unusual and very expensive foods (like gogi berries) that are higher up on the superfood list but certainly not readily availabe to most people.

Mmmm... love avocados!  The great thing is that all these food taste good if prepared right!

Apricots and almonds are my favorite snack!

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