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Putting aside specific diets that work to help you lose weight, why not concentrate on filling your body with good healthy food as a way of life, not just a fad, or diet for the next few months. Making a way of life eating plan can change your life in many ways, including weight loss, but mostly, it will improve your overall health and well being. Adding the healthiest foods possible to your way of eating if the beginning of a beautiful relationship with food and health. Here they are, so be prepared to get hungry, and healthy!
1.Banana
It is loaded with essential vitamins and minerals such as potassium, calcium, manganese, magnesium, iron, folate, niacin, riboflavin, and B6. These all contribute to the proper functioning of the body and keeping you healthy. The high content of potassium in bananas makes it a super fruit.
2.Lemon..
The simple but versatile lemon goes way beyond anything you could imagine as far as a super food goes because it is a very therapeutic citrus fruit. One lemon has around 100% of your daily recommended intake of vitamin C, it is an anti inflammatory and cleanses the system from bad toxins in the body, plus it has citrus flavonoids, which can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. If you drink a glass of warm lemon water each morning, you are setting your body up for a healthy digestive system, helping your immune system and it works as a blood purifier. Lemons are positively full to the brim with calcium, potassium, pectin fiber and other nutrients,and one glass of juice has less than 25 calories.
3.Broccoli...
Broccoli, that gorgeous green stalk is one of the world’s healthiest foods. There have been numerous studies on the effect broccoli has on the body, all with positive results. Eating regular amounts of broccoli can lower cholesterol, reduce inflammation and allergy reactions, is beneficial for bone and heart health and it helps alkalize your body. Want more? Broccoli is also an antioxidant; it’s got lots of kaempferol and isothiocyanates and Omega 3 fatty acids. Because broccoli contains glucoraphanin and indole-3-carbinols, it means it can help prevent the growth of certain cancers in the body. We should be eating lots more broccoli.
4. Spinach..
Spinach is more and more popular these days in the average American diet than it was 40 years ago, and this is an excellent thing. One of the healthiest foods you can eat. It is low in fat and cholesterol, high in protein and fiber, zinc and iron, niacin, calcium, iron, magnesium coppepotassium,manganese and loaded with vitamins. Plus, hello flavonoids! Packed with good stuff, good for the gut, good for the brain, good for cardiovascular systems and blood pressure. Plus, versatile! Do a little research, and you’ll see that spinach works in a variety of hot and cold dishes. Popeye was not wrong here, it will, in fact, help you to get big and strong.
5. Nuts...
Nuts are great snacks, tasty, diverse and easy to eat. They are extremely good for you, especially unsalted, but not all nuts are going to give you everything you need. They are often high in fat and calories, but these facts an outweigh the good stuff that comes from eating nuts in your diet, like fiber, potassium and zinc, and the vitamins A and E, and much more depending on the type of nut. The best nuts to add to your weekly eating plan? Pistachios, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews, brazil nuts and walnuts. Macadamia and pecans are not great for your diet, but benefit in other ways and peanuts are bad for health but good for your brain. Whichever nuts you eat, get unsalted, raw, fresh nuts. Stay away from nuts packaged or cooked with oil or salt.6. Garlic
Garlic comes from the onion family and is used in most dishes to enhance flavor. But, not just used to help the taste of food, garlic contains a high amount of a sulfur compound called Allicin which is responsible for most of the health benefits gained from eating garlic. When a garlic clove is crushed, chopped or chewed, allicin is released and gets to work. Garlic is a known reliever of the common cold, but it also can reduce blood pressure, combat diseases such as heart disease and Alzheimer’s and can help you live longer.
Eating sweet potato is better for you than eating a regular potato. The glycemic index of sweet potatoes is much lower, and the nutritional profile is higher. They promote healthy skin, low cholesterol levels, and prostate health and anti cancer properties. Sweet potatoes are the top vegetable on the planet for vitamin A consumption. They also contain great levels of vitamin C and B6 and lots of potassium. They are also gluten free and a great way to replace carbohydrates in a diet if you have cut our potatoes or all gluten. 
Berries are beautiful and tasty and so, so good for you. They have high levels of phytochemicals, which are naturally occurring nutrients to help cell damage and overall health. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries are all great flavor explosions to munch on. Blueberries knock it out of the park because they have a uniquely high level of antioxidants. Eating berries can keep you mentally sharp and prevent mental degeneration diseases because of the brain health benefits; they can help weight control, fight diabetes, keep your blood pressure low and are great for heart health.
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