At a time when more restrictive diets like keto and Whole30 are de rigueur, it's both surprising and heartening to learn that the "best" diet out there is one that doesn't put any food off-limits. In its 2019 ranking of 41 popular diets, U.S. News ranked the Mediterranean Diet as the best diet overall, as well as the best diabetes diet, best heart-healthy diet, best diet for healthy eating, best plant-based diet, and (perhaps most exciting of all) easiest diet to follow.
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Unlike fad diets and 30-day programs, the Mediterranean diet is a series of dietary guidelines and principles meant to help make healthy choices easier in the long term. It's based on the typical food patterns of countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the 1960s, when life expectancy was among the highest in the world in these countries, and rates of diet-related chronic diseases were among the lowest.
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