Superfoods...

[sandyRoe]

You sometimes see articles in newspapers stating that eating a handful of wallnuts per day will prevent some ailment while a bowl of porridge will prevent another.
Is it the foods that prevent the illnesses or is it that someone who is careful about their diet probably wouldn't get them anyway?

[Sqad]

Depends which foods.....depends which ailments.
As you quite rightly inferred,a balanced healthy diet is all that is required in the majority of cases.

[grasscarp]

The walnuts and porridge are both good for lowering cholesterol. The porridge bit really works and I am now having some walnuts each day as well. I brought my cholesterol level from 9.9 down to 6.7 and eating porridge most days was the only dietary change I made to do that.