>> The new year often means a fresh start and for some this means setting new
health goals like losing weight
or following a healthier diet.
Us news worked with a panel of
health experts to determine
which diets work
best overall and to beat
operated these diet plans are
relatively easy
to follow. Nutritious safe
effective for weight loss and
protective against diabetes and
heart disease. Joining me now is dietician Kayla Fisher with you and tell thank you so much
for being here this morning to
you only look at this list of
the top 3 the Mediterranean
diet the dash diet and the
flexitarian diet what do they
all have in common as the top
3. Yes, so these
3 diet are not truly what we
think of that the diet so
they’re not.
>> Incredibly restrictive
they’re not rules-based they’re
much more lifestyle patterns
for healthy eating
all 3 of them encouraging
increased intake of fruits and
vegetables whole grains beans,
healthy fat
and they all encouraged that we
limit our and take of fried
foods red meat and added sugars
across the board.
>> And so what makes them
different because they are
slightly different.
>> They’re slightly different
so the flexitarian diet is
truly a flexible
vegetarian diet and the idea is
that we can get the health
benefits of following a
vegetarian diet without being
completely vegetarian does
still allow for someone to
consume meat at times are not
be vegetarian every day.
But similarly lot more fruits
and vegetables plant proteins
limiting meet and the dash diet
is most known for its impact on
blood pressure so
the dash diet stands for
dietary approaches to stop
hypertension. Again we’re going
to see at a recommendation to
increase our intake of fruits
veggies whole grains. The dash
diet does emphasize low fat
dairy specifically
to to consume more about while
the other diets do not.
This is because calcium has
been shown to have a positive
impact. I want our
blood pressure the
Mediterranean diet again
lifestyle, diet or lifestyle,
eating plan and it’s built on a
foundation of physical activity
which is very important.
Also encourages a lot of
healthy fats so it sort of
famous or known for increasing
that and take of all of oil not
Saba our
healthy fats along with more
fruits vegetables whole grains
in the knot
and then encouraging Marine
protein like fish and seafood
over poultry and then limiting
red meat
and we talk about these being
lifestyle diets for people who
are considering.
>> Starting a diet they may
have not. Di did recently why
are these 3 good ones for them
to consider.
>> So they’re they’re
sustainable and they allow room
for us to tailor the eating
plan to our preferences
they all have the long-term
health benefits they’re
supported by research that
either evidence-based eating
plans. Often where we get into
trouble with diets
are we you know they’re very
restricted we kind of start out
stro, but if we can’t keep
doing it in the long run.
We just fallen to this pattern
of sort of you know yelling
back and forth between
a diet and then maybe our older
less healthy eating patterns
and that’s not good for our
health or our weight in the
long run and one of them that.
>> It is not on this list, but
is very popular nowadays is the
key toe diet where did that
fall on the list and why do you
think it right where it did yes so the key to diet actually ranked at 34 out of 35 so very
far at the bottom of the list.
>> The main reasons would be
it is very restrictive so it’s
not a nutritionally complete
diet while very popular right
now. The key to die to the very
high fat, moderate protein very
low carb diet.
So very minimal and take a
vegetable limited fruit, no
whole grains, it’s very
restrictive. That means it’s
very difficult for people to
follow in the long run so while
we may see some short-term
weight which which is a
positive if we can’t keep doing
it in the long run.
Not going to set us up for
success and then we are missing
out on some key nutrients from
our fruits and vegetables such
as fiber by following such a
restrictive diet.