At Kansas City Laser-Like Lipo®, we stress how much we don't like diets and how we don't want any of our patients doing diets. However, there is one diet (and only one diet) that we highly recommend and that is the Mediterranean Diet. For 6 years in-a-row, it has been ranked the number one diet in the world. Read the article below!

It's officially 2023, and if history repeats, millions of Americans are likely vowing that this year will be one when they drop those unwanted pounds for good. After all, weight loss usually lands one of the top spots on New Year's resolution surveys.

And just in time, there's guidance to pick the best plan. Released today are U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of the best diet plans.

Once again, the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables, olive oil, and fish, got the top spot, as best diet overall. It's the sixth consecutive year for that win. But many other diets got top marks as well.

This is like our 6 and 12 week candida programs and custom programs to heal the microbiome and help our patients absorb more than 30 to 50% of what they eat. This is one of the reasons why it’s hard to lose weight because when the body can’t be fed, the fat cells are like, “We need to stay here because this body of ours is not getting enough nutrition”.

This year, U.S. News, with the help of more than 30 nutritionists, doctors, and epidemiologists, ranked 24 diets in several categories to help people find a plan that meets their goals, whether it's finding the best weight loss diet, easiest one to follow, or plans for other goals, such as managing diabetes or heart disease. Two new categories were added: Best Diets for Bone & Joint Health and Best Family-Friendly Diets.

Best diet for joint health is the one that gets the microbiome back on track. GOOGLE microbiome and DJD and you will see why this is so important. We also have an anti-inflammatory plan in our clinic for eating to change all this, which one of my colleagues discovered 20 years’ ago before it was popular, “the microbiome”.

In previous years, the publication ranked 40 diets. Even if a diet is no longer ranked, its profile with detailed information remains on the site.

"Each year we ask ourselves what we can do better or differently next time," says Gretel Schueller, managing editor of health for U.S. News. When the publication got feedback from their experts this year, they had requests to consider sustainability of diets and whether they meet a busy family's needs, in addition to considering many other factors.

Best Diets Overall

After the Mediterranean diet, two others tied for second place:

• DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, which fights high blood pressure and emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, and low-fat dairy.
• Flexitarian diet, which focuses on fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods but also allows occasional meat.

Best Weight Loss Diets

WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers, got first place. The plan emphasizes not only weight loss but healthier eating and regular activity. The Points program, which assigns specific points to foods, with a daily Points budget, is more personalized than in the past.

Alright please STOP here..On the WW diet you can eat a tub of cool-whip with hardly any points. Most of these diets are the big prepaid ads you see in magazines and prey on people that want to lose weight.

The low carb diet (which doesn’t explain that vegies are called carbs too and can be very good for you with the fiber in the plant based veggies to help restore the beneficial bacteria in the GUT).

The low fat diet (this started back in the 60’s from a study from UK and the business here in America wanted to make money to produce low fat everything which made us fatter).

The KETO diet which can help people with diabetes and cancer

• Mayo Clinic Diet and TLC diet tied for third place. The Mayo Clinic Diet focuses on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. It helps people improve their eating habits. The TLC diet (Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes) focuses on vegetables, fruit, lean protein, and reducing cholesterol levels.

There is the focus on getting your cholesterol levels down from eating fat free. There is no mention on why there is needed cholesterol in the body and why it is there. First reason, your liver makes 75% of you cholesterol and 25% from your diet.

When you eat processed foods from a box, bag, can, etc, your body goes into inflammation and the coronary arteries become inflamed on the endothelium and become inflamed. The liver makes more cholesterol and come to lay down a covering (plaguing) to protect the endothelium to let it heal which then decreases the lumen and potentially soon myocardium infarct.

Blood tests are run to discover the high levels and the out of balance of HDL and LDL and the billion dollar Statin industry was born without helping patients to change their diet so this can reverse the plaguing and the need for stints. Where is the money in that?

There were some diets that were good like the Ornish diet focusing on plant-based foods.


Here some more categories:

• Best Fast Weight Loss Diets
• Best Diets for Healthy Eating
• Best Heart-Healthy Diets
• Best Diets for Diabetes
• Best Diets for Bone and Joint Health
• Best Family-Friendly Diets
• Best Plant-Based Diets
• Easiest Diets to Follow
• Best Diet Programs (formerly called commercial plans)

Methodology

A variety of factors were considered, such as whether a diet includes all food groups, how easy it is to follow, whether it can be customized to meet cultural and personal preferences, and if it has a realistic timeline for weight loss.

So with all these diet plans, they all lack the real cause of why people can’t lose weight.

Remember the fecal transplant diet (if you can call it that) 20 plus years ago. They took the crap from someone with no weight issues and took the bacteria from the source and implanted the bacteria into someone willing to pay $25 to 35k for a crap transfer and started to lose weight.

WHY did this work you may ask?

GUT flora is the most important thing for a healthy body which includes normal weight, immune system, serotonin feel good hormone, lower DJD in the joints and many more benefits to the body.

The GUT- brain connection and the early advances of Alzheimer and Dementia can be stopped and live longer with energy because the Telomeres are not dying with age and poor choice of eating.

At Kansas City Laser-Like Lipo®, we have done all the heavy lifting for you and seen this work on thousands of patients and thousands of doctors nationwide that has followed the same protocols.Dr. Jeremy Landry, D.C.Thanks for reading this far! We love our patients and try to give some of the best, free advice that we can offer.

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Sources:

U.S. News & World Report: "2023 Best Diet Rankings."

Gretel Schueller, managing editor, health, U.S. News & World Report.

Samantha Cassetty, registered dietitian, New York City.

Mandy Dowson, CEO, Jenny Craig.

Colette Heimowitz, vice president, nutrition and education, Simply Good Foods.