Reach for these super foods to supercharge your odds of staying ahead of cancer and maximising your health.

1. Dark chocolate: Cocoa, the raw material in chocolate, contains compounds named cathechins. These catechins stop cell signaling pathways involved in tumor and cancer formation.

2. Walnuts: Two handfuls of walnuts a day could cut the risk of breast cancer in half as well as reducing tumor growth by fifty percent.

3. Berries: Flavonoids, the compounds that give berries their color, have been shown to reduce free radical damage to your DNA. Scientists link free radicals damage to disease — especially to the development of cancer.

4. Citrus fruits: Eat a mandarin orange if you want some beta-cryptoxanthin and hesperidin, both shown to inhibit tongue, lung and colon cancers.

5. Melons: Watermelons contain just as much, if not more lycopene than tomatoes. Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant useful in the treatment of skin, bladder and prostate cancer.