Best diets for healthy eating

Best diets for healthy eating

Best diets for healthy eating, U.S. News has released its rankings of the best diets that promote healthy eating. Click to find out where other popular diets ranked in the top 10:

How much potassium and vitamins B-12 and D are supplied by the Nutrisystem Diet is unclear, but the U.S. News panel deemed the packaged meals, supplemented with snacks of fresh produce, nonfat dairy, and protein sources, generally nutritious and safe.

9 Vegetarian Diet

Going vegetarian doesn’t automatically make for a healthy or safe menu. When the U.S. News expert panel analyzed a vegetarian menu adapted from U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, with meals like buckwheat pancakes, vegetable soup, and tofu stir fry, they found the approach nutritious and “very” to “extremely” safe.

8 Ornish Diet

Provided you limit what doctor Dean Ornish calls “group 5” foods that are loaded with saturated fat and instead stick with groups 1 through 3 at the other end of Ornish’s spectrum—fish, plants, whole grains—your menu will stay in line with the government’s recommendations and you won’t risk your health.

7 Jenny Craig Diet

Dieters on Jenny Craig get appropriate amounts of fat, protein, and carbs, with lots of fiber and calcium. The program is “scientifically sound and safe,” said one of the experts. It garnered 3s, 4s, and 5s in both nutrition and safety categories.

6 Weight Watchers Diet

All-you-can-eat fresh fruits and veggies? It’s got to be healthy. Dieters are allotted daily points that are devoured if they choose fatty foods like sweets. Weight Watchers promotes a healthy, balanced approach to eating, concluded the experts. They didn’t have many worries that dieters would miss out on nutrients or lose weight too quickly, and that makes it a safe plan.

5 Mayo Clinic Diet

You’re in good hands with this diet developed by the high-profile medical center. The experts liked the plan’s unique eating pyramid, which promotes foods with low energy density (you can eat more but take in fewer calories) like fruits and veggies. It took home all 4s and 5s, save for one 3, in both safety and nutrition categories.

4 Volumetrics Diet

A diet that’s also based on low-energy-dense foods, Volumetrics menu items are large in volume but low in calories. That’s thanks to a whole lot of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nonfat dairy, and lean meat. Volumetrics manages to meet or come close to recommendations for the majority of nutrients you need, making it a safe, healthy-eating approach.

3 Mediterranean Diet

A Mediterranean buffet will showcase foods like whole-grain pita and hummus, salads, fresh fruits and veggies, salmon, and beneficial fats like olive oil. Dieters can drink to each others’ health—a glass or two a day of red wine is encouraged. The diet meets the government’s recommendations for healthy eating without compromising safety, panelists concluded.

2 TLC Diet

Developed by the National Institutes of Health, the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet nearly matches the DASH Diet for healthiness, panelists agreed. Doling out all 5s and 4s, Experts approved of the fiber and calcium it generously provides as well as the saturated fat it doesn’t.

1 Dash Diet

Panelists applauded the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) plan for its nutritional completeness and safety—it racked up lots of 5s and 4s in both categories. Endorsed by the federal government’s Department of Health and Human Services, the diet is packed with produce and light on saturated fat and salt.