What is the best diet? That’s a great question. Is their just one best diet? How many diets are there? Who knows. I’m sure there are thousands of diets. If you go to Amazon and search for diet books you get 62,218 results. Wow – that’s a lot of diets. How do you know which is the best diet? Or how do you at least narrow down the 62,218 diet books to a manageable number? Well US News & World Report has come out with their list of the top diets for 2012. Over the next month I’m going to take a look at the diets that made their list (around 25 diets) so go ahead and bookmark this site and come back for a look at a new diet everyday for the next month.

So what diet is the best diet? According to the report from US News & World Report the DASH diet or DASH Eating Plan is the best diet. Now there are a lot of things good to say about the DASH Eating Plan. The first is that DASH comes from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. And that means it’s free. Now just because it’s free does not make it the best diet but it is a nice side benefit.

DASH is an acronym standing for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. The DASH eating plan follows heart healthy guidelines to limit saturated fat and cholesterol. It focuses on increasing intake of foods rich in nutrients that are expected to lower blood pressure, mainly minerals (like potassium, calcium and magnesium), protein, and fiber. It includes nutrient-rich foods so that it meets other nutrient requirements as recommended by the Institute of Medicine.

Rather than go on and on about the Dash Diet you can download it right now by clicking on – DASH Diet.

Just a reminder to come back tomorrow to get a look into the diet that came in the second spot out of 62,218 diets.

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