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U.S. News and World Report ranks best diets

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Channel: LOCAL 12 · 2016 · News & Politics

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CINCINNATI (Liz Bonis) - The top rankings for best diets came out this week from U.S. News and World Report. Editors chose these diets with the help of a panel of experts, who ranked them in nine different categories.

No surprise, the DASH diet tops the list. DASH is dietary approaches to stop hypertension. It's includes three dairy products a day and a lot of fruits and vegetables to help a drop blood pressure and cholesterol.

Registered dietitian Nancy Zwick says you can adapt recipes, like sloppy joes, by substituting lower fat ingredients. "I use low fat cheese, I use really lean ground beef, drain off the fat. And I also sneak in beans into my dip, that way the nutritional value is increased and it cuts down on the fat calories."

Next up, the MIND diet makes the best list. It's designed to work against memory diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. It, too, is more fruits and vegetables and it sort of combines the DASH diet with the Mediterranean eating plan, which includes more seafood and olive oil.

This diet tied with a similar diet called the TLC diet or therapeutic lifestyle diet. It limits fats and calories to bring down bad cholesterol.

The diet rated best for diabetes is called the fertility diet. It is well balanced and reduces fried and processed foods to reduce trans fats.

For commercial diets, Weight Watchers is one of those that came out on top. And for the bottom of the list, the Whole30 diet, the Raw Food Diet, and the low-carb Atkins did not score well.

Whole30 bans a lot of foods for 30 days. Raw foods was considered hard to follow and Atkins didn't do well in the healthy eating category because you load up on higher protein foods.

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