U.S. News & World Report Releases Their “Best Diets” List
The holidays are murder to many of our waistlines. Cookies, roasts, big feasts, and the occasional drink or four lead you to avoiding your bathroom scale for as long as possible. You want to get back in shape, to shed those extra few pounds, but which diet is the right one for you?
Just today U.S. News & World Report released their “Best Diets” List. A total of 38 different diets were compared on the grounds of ease to follow, nutritious, safe and effective for weight loss, and for preventing diabetes and heart disease. Number 1 wasn’t a surprise: the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet has ranked number one for the past six years. Other well-known approaches like the Raw Food Diet and a Paleo Diet did not rank as well.
So what is the right diet for you? Many, like the Mediterranean Diet or the MIND Diet (both in the top 10) focus on lifestyle changes towards natural ingredients that have been proven time and time again by results and science. Popular diets like Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig that provide their own food ranked high as well for their accessibility and ease of use.
Many of the diets on this list cater to specific needs, so make sure you do your research and contact your physician before making any huge lifestyle changes. But it will be nice to know, once embarking on one of the diets below, that if you stick to the plan you’ll see results.
Diet Ranking
- DASH Diet
- MIND Diet
- TLC Diet (tie)
- Weight Watchers
- Mayo Clinic
- Fertility
- Mediterranean (tie)
- Volumetrics (tie)
- Flexitarian
- Jenny Craig
- Biggest Loser
- Ornish (tie)
- Vegetarian
- Traditional Asian (tie)
- Slim Fast
- SparkPeople
- Anti-Inflammatory (tie)
- HMR
- Flat Belly
- Nutrisystem (tie)
- Vegan
- Engine 2
- South Beach
- Abs (tie)
- Eco-Atkins
- Zone
- Glycemic-Index (tie)
- Macrobiotic
- Medifast (tie)
- Supercharged Hormone
- Acid Alkaline (tie)
- Fast
- Body Reset (tie)
- Raw food
- Atkins (tie)
- Dukan
- Paleo (tie)
- Whole 30
