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For Long Life. We post these healthy options, so that we the living can enjoy life further. How can we enjoy the things we worked hard for if we are not healthy.
Health is true wealth. Let us stay healthy.
Let us eat right and live bright and long
Here is the link to the web page.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/us-news-world-reports-best-diets-healthy-eating_n_1072954.html
The full article is being reprinted to guide us have long life
By Kurtis Hiatt, U.S. News
Not all diet plans are nutritious and safe. A new U.S. News ranking rates diets' healthiness.
Weight lost doesn't always equal health gained. That new diet that took inches off your waistline could be harming your health if it locks out or severely restricts entire food groups, like carbs, or relies on supplements with little scientific backing, or clamps down on calories to an extreme.
"People are so desperate to lose weight that it's really weight loss at any cost," says Madelyn Fernstrom, founding director of the UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Weight Management Center and author of The Real You Diet. And when that desperation sets in, says Fernstrom, "normal thinking goes out the window." Who cares if the forbidden-foods list is longer than War and Peace? Pounds are coming off. You're happy. But your body might not be.
You can check the nutritional completeness and safety of 20 popular diets ranked by U.S. News, from Atkins to Jenny Craig to Weight Watchers, in detailed profiles of each one. (The profiles also cover scientific evidence, typical meals, and much more.) And now U.S. News is introducing new rankings, Best Diets for Healthy Eating, that give each diet a "healthiness" score from 5 (best) to 1 (worst) for safety and nutrition, with safety getting double weight; while you can modify a diet to some degree to adjust for nutritional imbalances or deficiencies, mere tweaking won't make an unsafe diet safe.
Behind the healthiness scores are ratings by a U.S. News panel of 22 experts in nutrition and diet. They assessed the 20 popular diets in seven categories, including the safety and nutritional completeness categories, for a series of rankings released last June. U.S. News recently added profiles of five more diets -- the Abs Diet, Biggest Loser Diet, Dukan Diet, Flat Belly Diet, and Macrobiotic Diet. They are not included in the new Best Diets for Healthy Eating but will be added in January after experts rate them.
The Best Diets for Healthy Eating and Best Diets Overall rankings overlap significantly. Both give high marks to DASH, TLC, Mediterranean, Mayo Clinic, Volumetrics, and Weight Watchers. "The ones that get high scores in safety and in nutritional value -- they're very similar to each other," says Andrea Giancoli, a registered dietitian who serves on U.S. News's expert panel. The recurring theme across the diets that excelled in healthiness is adequate calories supplied by a heavy load of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, a modest amount of lean protein, nonfat dairy, healthy fats, and an occasional treat. Plants are the foundation and the menu is always built around minimally processed meals made from scratch.
Very few diets in the Healthy Eating list are overtly unsafe or severely deficient nutritionally. The only plans to receive healthiness scores of below 3 were the Paleo, Raw Food, and Atkins diets. They're simply too restrictive, say our experts, which calls their nutritional qualities into question. The meat-heavy Paleo diet bans grains and dairy, so getting adequate calcium and vitamin D isn't easy. Atkins, by severely curbing carbs, blows past recommended caps for total and saturated fat. Depending on your personal approach to the Raw Food Diet, you may shortchange yourself on calcium, vitamin B-12, and vitamin D; its restrictive cooking rules also could put you at risk for eating raw or undercooked ingredients.
If you have reservations about a diet's nutritional content or safety, listen to your body. Fatigue, sleeplessness, dizziness, aches -- they're all red flags. Says Fernstrom: "Losing weight is for good health, so you should feel more vital -- not bad."
More From U.S. News:
Best Diabetes Diets
6 Warning Signs of a Bad Diet
Best Weight-Loss Diets
Being on a diet doesn't always mean good things for your health. You want to make sure your new diet will provide enough calories and doesn't skimp on important nutrients or entire food groups. The Best Diets for Healthy Eating rankings take both nutrition and safety into account. (See how we did it.) Among the 20 popular diet programs ranked by U.S. News, the DASH Diet came out on top.
No. 1: Dash Diet
4.8 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
Panelists applauded the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) plan for its nutritional completeness and safety -- it racked up lots of 5s and 4s in both categories. Endorsed by the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services, the diet is packed with produce and light on saturated fat and salt.
No. 2: TLC Diet
4.7 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
Developed by the National Institutes of Health, the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet nearly matches the DASH Diet for healthiness, panelists agreed. Doling out all 5s and 4s, Experts approved of the fiber and calcium it generously provides as well as the saturated fat it doesn't.
No. 3: Mediterranean Diet
4.6 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
A Mediterranean buffet will showcase foods like whole-grain pita and hummus, salads, fresh fruits and veggies, salmon, and beneficial fats like olive oil. Dieters can drink to each others' health -- a glass or two a day of red wine is encouraged. The diet meets the government's recommendations for healthy eating without compromising safety, panelists concluded.
No. 4: Mayo Clinic Diet
4.5 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
You're in good hands with this diet developed by the high-profile medical center. The experts liked the plan's unique eating pyramid, which promotes foods with low energy density (you can eat more but take in fewer calories) like fruits and veggies. It took home all 4s and 5s, save for one 3, in both safety and nutrition categories.
No. 4: Volumetrics Diet
4.5 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
A diet that's also based on low-energy-dense foods, Volumetrics menu items are large in volume but low in calories. That's thanks to a whole lot of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nonfat dairy, and lean meat. Volumetrics manages to meet or come close to recommendations for the majority of nutrients you need, making it a safe, healthy-eating approach.
No. 6: Weight Watchers Diet
4.4 stars out of 5 stars
All-you-can-eat fresh fruits and veggies? It's got to be healthy. Dieters are allotted daily points that are devoured if they choose fatty foods like sweets. Weight Watchers promotes a healthy, balanced approach to eating, concluded the experts. They didn't have many worries that dieters would miss out on nutrients or lose weight too quickly, and that makes it a safe plan.
No. 7: Jenny Craig Diet
4.3 stars out of 5 stars
Dieters on Jenny Craig get appropriate amounts of fat, protein, and carbs, with lots of fiber and calcium. The program is "scientifically sound and safe," said one of the experts. It garnered 3s, 4s, and 5s in both nutrition and safety categories.
No. 8: Ornish Diet
4.1 stars out of 5 stars
Provided you limit what doctor Dean Ornish calls "group 5" foods that are loaded with saturated fat and instead stick with groups 1 through 3 at the other end of Ornish's spectrum -- fish, plants, whole grains -- your menu will stay in line with the government's recommendations and you won't risk your health.
No. 9: Vegetarian Diet
4.0 stars out of 5 stars
Going vegetarian doesn't automatically make for a healthy or safe menu. When the U.S. News expert panel analyzed a vegetarian menu adapted from U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, with meals like buckwheat pancakes, vegetable soup, and tofu stir fry, they found the approach nutritious and "very" to "extremely" safe.
No. 10: Nutrisystem Diet
3.9 stars out of 5 stars
How much potassium and vitamins B-12 and D are supplied by the Nutrisystem Diet is unclear, but the U.S. News panel deemed the packaged meals, supplemented with snacks of fresh produce, nonfat dairy, and protein sources, generally nutritious and safe.
No. 11: Glycemic-Index Diet
3.5 stars out of 5 stars
This diet received fairly average ratings in safety and nutrition. Considering the nutrients it can provide, the GI approach is reasonably complete, the experts decided. You probably won't face major health risks.
No .11: Slim-Fast Diet
3.5 stars out of 5 stars
Getting just 1,200 calories a day on Slim-Fast didn't sit well with some experts. They thought the amount was on the low side, especially for dieters under 18, who are still growing. Still, the company's products are nutrient-fortified and dieters have one homemade meal each day, so the consensus was that Slim-Fast is mostly nutritious and safe.
No. 11: Zone Diet
3.5 stars out of 5 stars
Not the best but not awful healthiness-wise. Although the diet doesn't supply sufficient carbs, and possibly not enough fiber, potassium, calcium, and vitamin D, either, the experts concluded that Zone isn't overtly risky.
No. 14: South Beach Diet
3.3 stars out of 5 stars
Experts had enough reservations to send South Beach toward the lower end of this list, but most don't consider it extremely nutrient-deficient or unsafe. It's a little heavy on fat in phase 1, short on carbs during phases 1 and 2, and low in potassium throughout. Some experts were concerned it might be too high in protein for those with kidney problems, too.
No. 15: Eco-Atkins Diet
3.1 stars out of 5 stars
Although it outperformed traditional Atkins, experts felt that Eco-Atkins is too heavy on fat and light on carbs. Still, dieters needn't worry about malnourishment or overly rapid weight loss. It manages a middle-of-the-road 3.
No. 16: Medifast Diet
3 stars out of 5 stars
It doesn't perfectly align with the government's guidelines for healthy eating, experts concluded, because it provides a little too much protein and too few carbs. At 800 to 1,000 calories a day, it also dips low for many dieters. The experts found it "moderately" safe.
No. 16: Vegan Diet
3 stars out of 5 stars
Veganism can conform with a healthful eating plan, but it takes work, and the risk of missing out on key nutrients like calcium, vitamin D, vitamin B-12, zinc, and iron is real. That worried experts a bit, but they still gave the diet a respectable 3.
No. 18: Paleo Diet
2.2 stars out of 5 stars
Slapping the diet with many 1s and 2s, experts couldn't accept that entire food groups, like dairy and grains, are excluded, making it hard for dieters to get all the nutrients they need. It's one of the few diets that experts actually considered "somewhat unsafe" and, on nutrition, only "somewhat complete."
No. 19: Raw Food Diet
2.1 stars out of 5 stars
Because the raw food diet could come up short in calories, calcium, and vitamins B-12 and D, just a handful of experts scored it higher than 2 for nutritional completeness. As for safety, the experts felt the risk of food poisoning from raw or undercooked ingredients was all too real.
No. 20: Atkins Diet
2 stars out of 5 stars
Way too much fat and too few carbs, in the view of the experts, who questioned whether dieters can build a nutritious and safe diet with the severe restrictions imposed on veggies, whole grains, and fruits. Absent long-term safety data that might indicate otherwise, the panel put Atkins at the bottom of the pack.
For Long Life. We post these healthy options, so that we the living can enjoy life further. How can we enjoy the things we worked hard for if we are not healthy.
Health is true wealth. Let us stay healthy.
Let us eat right and live bright and long
Here is the link to the web page.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/us-news-world-reports-best-diets-healthy-eating_n_1072954.html
The full article is being reprinted to guide us have long life
By Kurtis Hiatt, U.S. News
Not all diet plans are nutritious and safe. A new U.S. News ranking rates diets' healthiness.
Weight lost doesn't always equal health gained. That new diet that took inches off your waistline could be harming your health if it locks out or severely restricts entire food groups, like carbs, or relies on supplements with little scientific backing, or clamps down on calories to an extreme.
"People are so desperate to lose weight that it's really weight loss at any cost," says Madelyn Fernstrom, founding director of the UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Weight Management Center and author of The Real You Diet. And when that desperation sets in, says Fernstrom, "normal thinking goes out the window." Who cares if the forbidden-foods list is longer than War and Peace? Pounds are coming off. You're happy. But your body might not be.
You can check the nutritional completeness and safety of 20 popular diets ranked by U.S. News, from Atkins to Jenny Craig to Weight Watchers, in detailed profiles of each one. (The profiles also cover scientific evidence, typical meals, and much more.) And now U.S. News is introducing new rankings, Best Diets for Healthy Eating, that give each diet a "healthiness" score from 5 (best) to 1 (worst) for safety and nutrition, with safety getting double weight; while you can modify a diet to some degree to adjust for nutritional imbalances or deficiencies, mere tweaking won't make an unsafe diet safe.
Behind the healthiness scores are ratings by a U.S. News panel of 22 experts in nutrition and diet. They assessed the 20 popular diets in seven categories, including the safety and nutritional completeness categories, for a series of rankings released last June. U.S. News recently added profiles of five more diets -- the Abs Diet, Biggest Loser Diet, Dukan Diet, Flat Belly Diet, and Macrobiotic Diet. They are not included in the new Best Diets for Healthy Eating but will be added in January after experts rate them.
The Best Diets for Healthy Eating and Best Diets Overall rankings overlap significantly. Both give high marks to DASH, TLC, Mediterranean, Mayo Clinic, Volumetrics, and Weight Watchers. "The ones that get high scores in safety and in nutritional value -- they're very similar to each other," says Andrea Giancoli, a registered dietitian who serves on U.S. News's expert panel. The recurring theme across the diets that excelled in healthiness is adequate calories supplied by a heavy load of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, a modest amount of lean protein, nonfat dairy, healthy fats, and an occasional treat. Plants are the foundation and the menu is always built around minimally processed meals made from scratch.
If you have reservations about a diet's nutritional content or safety, listen to your body. Fatigue, sleeplessness, dizziness, aches -- they're all red flags. Says Fernstrom: "Losing weight is for good health, so you should feel more vital -- not bad."
More From U.S. News:
Best Diabetes Diets
6 Warning Signs of a Bad Diet
Best Weight-Loss Diets
Being on a diet doesn't always mean good things for your health. You want to make sure your new diet will provide enough calories and doesn't skimp on important nutrients or entire food groups. The Best Diets for Healthy Eating rankings take both nutrition and safety into account. (See how we did it.) Among the 20 popular diet programs ranked by U.S. News, the DASH Diet came out on top.
No. 1: Dash Diet
4.8 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
Panelists applauded the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) plan for its nutritional completeness and safety -- it racked up lots of 5s and 4s in both categories. Endorsed by the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services, the diet is packed with produce and light on saturated fat and salt.
No. 2: TLC Diet
4.7 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
Developed by the National Institutes of Health, the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet nearly matches the DASH Diet for healthiness, panelists agreed. Doling out all 5s and 4s, Experts approved of the fiber and calcium it generously provides as well as the saturated fat it doesn't.
No. 3: Mediterranean Diet
4.6 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
A Mediterranean buffet will showcase foods like whole-grain pita and hummus, salads, fresh fruits and veggies, salmon, and beneficial fats like olive oil. Dieters can drink to each others' health -- a glass or two a day of red wine is encouraged. The diet meets the government's recommendations for healthy eating without compromising safety, panelists concluded.
No. 4: Mayo Clinic Diet
4.5 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
You're in good hands with this diet developed by the high-profile medical center. The experts liked the plan's unique eating pyramid, which promotes foods with low energy density (you can eat more but take in fewer calories) like fruits and veggies. It took home all 4s and 5s, save for one 3, in both safety and nutrition categories.
No. 4: Volumetrics Diet
4.5 stars out of 5 stars
Named a BEST U.S. News diet
A diet that's also based on low-energy-dense foods, Volumetrics menu items are large in volume but low in calories. That's thanks to a whole lot of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nonfat dairy, and lean meat. Volumetrics manages to meet or come close to recommendations for the majority of nutrients you need, making it a safe, healthy-eating approach.
No. 6: Weight Watchers Diet
4.4 stars out of 5 stars
All-you-can-eat fresh fruits and veggies? It's got to be healthy. Dieters are allotted daily points that are devoured if they choose fatty foods like sweets. Weight Watchers promotes a healthy, balanced approach to eating, concluded the experts. They didn't have many worries that dieters would miss out on nutrients or lose weight too quickly, and that makes it a safe plan.
No. 7: Jenny Craig Diet
4.3 stars out of 5 stars
Dieters on Jenny Craig get appropriate amounts of fat, protein, and carbs, with lots of fiber and calcium. The program is "scientifically sound and safe," said one of the experts. It garnered 3s, 4s, and 5s in both nutrition and safety categories.
No. 8: Ornish Diet
4.1 stars out of 5 stars
Provided you limit what doctor Dean Ornish calls "group 5" foods that are loaded with saturated fat and instead stick with groups 1 through 3 at the other end of Ornish's spectrum -- fish, plants, whole grains -- your menu will stay in line with the government's recommendations and you won't risk your health.
No. 9: Vegetarian Diet
4.0 stars out of 5 stars
Going vegetarian doesn't automatically make for a healthy or safe menu. When the U.S. News expert panel analyzed a vegetarian menu adapted from U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, with meals like buckwheat pancakes, vegetable soup, and tofu stir fry, they found the approach nutritious and "very" to "extremely" safe.
No. 10: Nutrisystem Diet
3.9 stars out of 5 stars
How much potassium and vitamins B-12 and D are supplied by the Nutrisystem Diet is unclear, but the U.S. News panel deemed the packaged meals, supplemented with snacks of fresh produce, nonfat dairy, and protein sources, generally nutritious and safe.
No. 11: Glycemic-Index Diet
3.5 stars out of 5 stars
This diet received fairly average ratings in safety and nutrition. Considering the nutrients it can provide, the GI approach is reasonably complete, the experts decided. You probably won't face major health risks.
No .11: Slim-Fast Diet
3.5 stars out of 5 stars
Getting just 1,200 calories a day on Slim-Fast didn't sit well with some experts. They thought the amount was on the low side, especially for dieters under 18, who are still growing. Still, the company's products are nutrient-fortified and dieters have one homemade meal each day, so the consensus was that Slim-Fast is mostly nutritious and safe.
No. 11: Zone Diet
3.5 stars out of 5 stars
Not the best but not awful healthiness-wise. Although the diet doesn't supply sufficient carbs, and possibly not enough fiber, potassium, calcium, and vitamin D, either, the experts concluded that Zone isn't overtly risky.
No. 14: South Beach Diet
3.3 stars out of 5 stars
Experts had enough reservations to send South Beach toward the lower end of this list, but most don't consider it extremely nutrient-deficient or unsafe. It's a little heavy on fat in phase 1, short on carbs during phases 1 and 2, and low in potassium throughout. Some experts were concerned it might be too high in protein for those with kidney problems, too.
No. 15: Eco-Atkins Diet
3.1 stars out of 5 stars
Although it outperformed traditional Atkins, experts felt that Eco-Atkins is too heavy on fat and light on carbs. Still, dieters needn't worry about malnourishment or overly rapid weight loss. It manages a middle-of-the-road 3.
No. 16: Medifast Diet
3 stars out of 5 stars
It doesn't perfectly align with the government's guidelines for healthy eating, experts concluded, because it provides a little too much protein and too few carbs. At 800 to 1,000 calories a day, it also dips low for many dieters. The experts found it "moderately" safe.
No. 16: Vegan Diet
3 stars out of 5 stars
Veganism can conform with a healthful eating plan, but it takes work, and the risk of missing out on key nutrients like calcium, vitamin D, vitamin B-12, zinc, and iron is real. That worried experts a bit, but they still gave the diet a respectable 3.
No. 18: Paleo Diet
2.2 stars out of 5 stars
Slapping the diet with many 1s and 2s, experts couldn't accept that entire food groups, like dairy and grains, are excluded, making it hard for dieters to get all the nutrients they need. It's one of the few diets that experts actually considered "somewhat unsafe" and, on nutrition, only "somewhat complete."
No. 19: Raw Food Diet
2.1 stars out of 5 stars
Because the raw food diet could come up short in calories, calcium, and vitamins B-12 and D, just a handful of experts scored it higher than 2 for nutritional completeness. As for safety, the experts felt the risk of food poisoning from raw or undercooked ingredients was all too real.
No. 20: Atkins Diet
2 stars out of 5 stars
Way too much fat and too few carbs, in the view of the experts, who questioned whether dieters can build a nutritious and safe diet with the severe restrictions imposed on veggies, whole grains, and fruits. Absent long-term safety data that might indicate otherwise, the panel put Atkins at the bottom of the pack.
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