Mediterranean Diet, DASH Diet, and MIND Diets Are the Best Diets of 2024
All three diets are highly recommended by doctors because of their known health benefits. “The Mediterranean eating plan doesn’t have a set calorie range or portion guidelines, which is why it can fit almost anyone’s needs. Eating in this way may promote weight loss, but the main goal of this eating style is the health benefits it can offer, such as improvements in cardiovascular health,” says Erin Palinski-Wade, RD, CDCES, the author of Belly Fat Diet for Dummies.
For instance, the Mediterranean diet is superior for weight loss compared with other diets and has been found to lower the risk of weight gain and obesity over time, according to a narrative review. Switching from an omnivore diet to a plant-based diet was found to help the majority of people lose weight, possibly because of the boost in fiber intake and the reduction of animal proteins in favor of plant proteins, among other reasons, per a systematic review published in Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy in 2020.
In a study of more than 100,000 middle-aged and older adults, those who followed the Mediterranean diet closely had up to a 29 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality than those who didn’t eat according to Mediterranean diet principles. Those eating a Mediterranean diet also had up to a 28 percent lower risk of death from cancer. Earlier research also found that those who followed…
