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Health See other Health Articles Title: Best Diet - NIH Panel A ranking of all kinds of diets by a 22-member expert panel assembled by U.S. News & World Report gives its top prize to the blood-pressure lowering Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet, created by — that’s right — a panel of experts at the National Institutes of Health. Is this REALLY the best diet ever? After years of talking to experts, including many of those who voted in the U.S. News ranking, here’s the bottom line: The best diet is the one you can consistently follow, as long as it keeps you from gaining weight, includes a variety of healthy foods (especially plant-based foods), and avoids too many calories, saturated fats, and added sugars. That said, here’s how the experts voted in the U.S. News rankings, in each of five categories. Panelists voted to give each diet a 1 to 5 score based on “short-term weight loss, long-term weight loss, how easy it is to follow, its nutritional completeness, its safety, its ability to prevent or manage diabetes, and its ability to prevent or manage heart disease.” Highest score won. BEST OVERALL DIET: DASH. Very close runners up were the Mediterranean diet, the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes diet (TLC, also from the NIH), and Weight Watchers. BEST COMMERCIAL DIET (of 8 considered): Weight Watchers BEST WEIGHT-LOSS DIET: Weight Watchers BEST DIABETES DIET: DASH diet, followed closely by the Mayo Clinic Diet, the Ornish Diet, and the Vegan diet. BEST HEART-HEALTHY DIET: Ornish Diet, followed closely by the TLC diet. My personal favorite diet? I read a lot of scientific studies, so I lean toward the well-researched Ornish diet. People always say it’s hard to follow, but it lays out the best possible diet and asks only that we follow it as best we can, keeping its principles in mind. I’m also fond of the Volumetrics and South Beach approaches. But as noted above, people get great results with many different healthy diets. Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, your own doctor’s special recipe for health — they can all work wonders. Here’s the best diet advice ever, from food guru Michael Pollan: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. – Daniel J. DeNoon, Senior Medical Writer, WebMD Comments Richard Campbell The blatant omission of Atkins is hurting the nation's health. Study after study prove genuine Atkins (not the cartoon buttered steak version) as good or superior to Ornish, including the long term Stanford study in which "After 12 months, women following the Atkins diet, relative to at least one of the other groups, had larger decreases in body mass index, triglycerides and blood pressure; their high-density lipoprotein, the good kind of cholesterol, increased more than the women on the other diets" - other diets including Ornish. If the point of a diet is to reduce weight, bad cholesterol, blood pressure, BMI and triglycerides, why is Atkins being left out when it's proven in carefully monitored long term studies to be more effective than Ornish?
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