U.S. News evaluated 29 of the most popular diets and identified the best. See top-rated diets "
U.S. News evaluated and ranked the 29 diets below with input from a panel of health experts. To be top-rated, a diet had to be relatively easy to follow, nutritious, safe, and effective for weight loss and against diabetes and heart disease. The government-endorsed Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) snagged the top spot.
Nov. 7, 2013 at 5:59 PM ET NEW YORK - The way women eat in their late 50s and early 60s may have some connection to how well they age later on, according to a new study. Earlier studies examining the benefits of a healthy diet have typically focused on its link to specific diseases or death.
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If you've spent your life as a fat person -- when you desperately don't want to be one -- it's like being in prison: you want to escape, but those steel bars keep you from making a break. I know what it's like because I was always trapped by my weight, powerless to change.
