People are constantly asking me what they should eat. They want to know the best diet for weight loss and health, and of course, they want practical suggestions for their diet. My answer depends on the individual's goals, personal tastes, and health condition, so I can't recommend one specific single diet for everyone.
U.S. News and World Report's lists of top diets seem to support this approach. Their top diets include commercial diets with processed bars and shakes, diets developed by medical institutions, and diets from national organizations.
The evaluating panel from U.S. News and World Report includes 22 health and nutrition experts from around the nation. They are dietitians, medical doctors, nutritionists, university professors and public health experts. The experts ranked the diets based on seven criteria on a scale of 1 to 5. The criteria are:
• Short-term weight loss
• Long-term weight loss
• easy to follow
• nutrition
• safety
• for diabetes
• for heart health
The best overall diets were:
1. DASH Diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Diet)
2. Mediteranean Diet
3. TLC Diet
4. Weight Watchers
5. Mayo Clinic
6. Volumetrics
7. Jenny Craig
8. Ornish
9. Vegetarian diet
10. Slim-Fast
Other lists were for the best weight loss diets, best diabetes diets, best commercial diet plans, best commercial diet plans and best heart-healthy diets.
