And the winner is: The frozen açaí berry, boasting an antioxidant score of 10,000 (for about a half a cup). We're talking ORAC scores here -- oxygen radical absorbance capacity. Ideally, you should get more than 5,000 ORACs per day. Clearly, this berry delivers. Here's how some others stack up. Serving size for all is one cup.

Blueberries, fresh or frozen: 9,697
Cranberries, frozen: 9,584
Blackberries, fresh or frozen: 7,700
Raspberries, fresh or frozen: 6,005
Strawberries, fresh or frozen: 5,151

We are surely smarter than the food cravings that consume us -- right? Right, say the experts at Ladies Home Journal, who offer these three strategies for surfing through the toughest of temptations.

• Get a handle on your emotions. Determine why you crave -- is it stress, depression, anxiety, or boredom that drives your desires? Figure it out and then reach for a pen and paper and pour your heart out with words, not chips and dips. Or outwit your cravings with yoga, deep breathing, or meditation.
• Find alternative foods. Have healthy foods on hand so you can re-route your reach from cookies to a cup of fruit. Eating something healthy can take the edge off a craving.
• Time your cravings. When do they occur? Just after breakfast? Might mean you aren't eating enough first thing in the morning. Do they happen while strolling the aisles in our supermarket? Might need to fill your tummy before you head to the store.
  
  

Cravings are often sudden and tough to resist. I know. Armed with these few tactics for tricking them, though, we might be able to keep them at bay. Think of it as urge surfing, says Kelly Brownell, PhD, director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, in New Haven, Connecticut. Cravings are like waves -- they start out small, gain in strength, crest, and then subside. The key is staying strong through the peak so you can outlast it.

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You should be drinking water -- you don't need eight full glasses a day but too little water can have negative effects on your body and mood. Once you start to feel thirsty, your body is already somewhat dehydrated so keep the water flowing all day.

You should be swimming in water -- nothing too strenuous, just a leisurely paddle in the pool can boost your mood. Do your exercise in the water and you might just feel that "high" runners talk about, but without overstressing your joints.

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I found this article from one of my favourite Internet indulgences. It's an excerpt from Ladies Home Journal in 1901, and it's a series of predictions for where the world will be in 100 years. It's pretty interesting. I suggest you have a look.

In there, there's a bunch of food predictions -- strawberries as large as apples and peas as large of beats are two of them -- and there's even a couple of predictions on the health and fitness of people in the new millennium:

Everybody Will Walk 10 Miles. Gymnastics will begin in the nursery where toys and games will be designed to strengthen the muscles. Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. A man or woman unable to walk 10 miles at a stretch will be regarded as a weakling. Um ... right. It was wishful thinking to assume that Americans would get healthier -- we seem to have done the opposite, in fact.

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