Every year in January, US News & World Report comes out with their ranking of popular diets. It contains the details and data around a few dozen of the most popular diet plans. The diets are ranked from best to worst overall and in a number of sub-categories like heart health and weight loss. Behind these diet ratings is an expert panel of nutritionists, dietary consultants, and physicians specializing in diabetes, heart health, and weight loss.
Joining me today to discuss the results of this year’s rankings is my colleague, Jill Weisenberger. Jill is a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified diabetes educator. She’s the author of four books, including her most recent, Prediabetes: A Complete Guide.
Jill was also a member of the panel of experts that rated the diets this year for US News and World Report. So I thought it would be interesting not just to talk with her about the results but get a behind-the-scenes peek at the process.
Here are some highlights from our chat, but I encourage you to click on the audio link to hear the entire conversation.
Nutrition Diva: What's the process by which the panel ranks the diets each year?
Jill Weisenberger: A lot of people ask if we meet as a group and hash things out, but that's not the way it's done. We work on our own. The folks at US New provide a profile for each diet along with research summaries. And I've been a dietician and a diabetes educator for many, many years. So, we answer the questions based on the research as well as our own experience. It's a very long survey about how each diet holds up against general healthy eating principles, what we think it will do in terms of weight loss, heart health, diabetes, and that type of thing.
ND: Topping the overall rankings this year was the Mediterranean Diet, which has been at or near the top of the list for years. Other diets in the Top Ten included the DASH diet, Flexitarian Diet, the MIND diet. In your view, what do the top-rated diets seem to have in common?
The top diets all tend to be more whole-food-based. They may not be vegetarian and they aren't vegan, but these diets definitely have a plant slant.
JW: The top diets—particularly the top three—are very, very similar. They all tend to be more whole-food-based. They may not be vegetarian and they aren't vegan, but these diets definitely have a plant slant. It doesn't surprise me which ones rank at the top.
ND: Another thing that these top diets had in common is that they were not so much a set of...
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