If Your New Year’s Resolution Is Losing Weight, Here Are The Top 5 Diets For You
So, you’ve just wrapped up the holidays, all the parties, with the sweet treats and abundance of all the delicious food that was nearly impossible to resist. There are so many different diets to choose from.
You told yourself this year you were not going to overindulge, but now it’s time to face reality, and for most of us, that means time to choose one of the many different diets out there.
There so many diets to choose from, they’re a fad diets that feature everything from extremely long fasts to diets where you eat nothing but soup for 10 days. The idea is to choose a diet that you can stick to for the long run and find long-term success.
Every January millions of Americans decide it’s time to lose weight, but which diet is best for us? Let’s leave that up to the experts who have done the homework for us. If you’re like most of us, you’ve tried many diets in the past some work for the short term. Finding a diet you can do for the long term is the question and the problem.
U.S. News & World Report” just put out its annual ranking of the healthiest diets to try this year. And the same one sits at the top of the list for the eighth year running. Can you name it?
Here are the five they say are the healthiest diets overall.
1. The Mediterranean Diet: Limit sweets, processed foods, and red meat. Eat lots of fruits, veggies, grains, nuts, and healthy fats like chicken and fish. Of all the diets, this offers you the most variety to help you stick to the program without becoming bored.
2. The DASH Diet: It’s designed to lower blood pressure. “DASH” stands for “Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.” This diet basically is centered on eating a lot less salt. If you have high blood pressure, sodium is a big issue for you and a main reason for weight gain and an unhealthy heart.
3. The Flexitarian Diet: You’re mostly a vegetarian, but sometimes eat meat. With a mostly vegetable-based plate, and a small piece of protein to help you feel satisfied. This is a great program for people who don’t want to give up meat but no too much is probably not a good thing.
4. The MIND Diet: It’s a mash-up of Mediterranean and DASH, with a focus on brain health. This diet focuses on lower sodium foods and high omega, healthy fats, think olive oil‘s and 10 fish or salmon.
(“MIND” stands for “Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay.”)
5. The Mayo Clinic Diet: A three-month program for weight loss. You eat balanced meals with smaller portions, and can’t eat while watching TV. These folks are diet specialists and have a lot of success behind their program, definitely one to look into
The rest of their Top 10 are the TLC Diet . . . the Menopause Diet . . . Dr. Weil’s Anti-Inflammatory Diet . . . Volumetrics . . . and the Cleveland Clinic Diet.
(U.S. News & World Report / CBS News)
