The Mediterranean diet is really more a lifestyle approach than a diet, which is why it has such staying power.
There are no complicated rules to remember or hard-to-track ingredients. The hallmarks of a best diet include balance, maintainability, palatability, family-friendliness, sustainability, along with healthfulness.
In collaboration with the Harris Poll, the experts at U.S. News curated "an extremely rigorous methodology" to determine which diet deserved the #1 ranking.
"Then, we brought in 43 leaders in the fields of nutrition, weight loss, and diet-related health conditions like heart disease and diabetes to evaluate and rank 30 diets
These professionals ranked the diets based on key factors such as nutritional completeness, sustainability, and the scientific claims behind each eating regimen.
The MedDiet is favored by experts because it shines a spotlight on healthy foods, it's flexible, it's tasty, and it doesn't completely cut out certain foods or groups.
Such high accolades are not surprising, as numerous studies have found the Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of diabetes, high cholesterol, dementia, memory loss, depression, and breast cancer.