It is clichéd, but true: you are what you eat!

How we look, how we feel, how healthy we are, how we perform our daily tasks -- it all narrows down to what we eat.

How easy it would be if we knew which foods could be beneficial to us -- to help us feel energetic, to help us improve our health, to help us in our battle against body fat.

Get Ahead gives you a guide -- in two parts -- as to what we consider the ten most beneficial foods.

These foods are rated on the basis of the health benefits they provide, the fibre content, their vitamin and mineral content as well as low fat and caloric content.

Note: These foods work best when combined with an all round healthy diet and regular exercise regimen.

Text: Rustom Warden