Healthiest Diets Ranked: The Best According Experts | Dahlia Marin, RDN, LD, CGN
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
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Summary
These are the healthiest diets, according to experts from across the medical, nutrition, and culinary fields.
Dahlia Marin, a certified gastrointestinal nutritionist and registered dietitian, is among the panel of experts to compile the rankings for U.S. News & World Report's Best Diets for 2025. She shares the lengthy process that determined the rankings, and which diets proved to be the healthiest.
Marin also shares insight on why many of the top scoring diets are plant predominant.
Diet's Mentioned
- Plant-Based Diet
- Mediterranean Diet
- Ornish Diet
- Flexitarian Diet
- Pritikin Diet
- Dr. Wiles Anti-Inflammatory Diet
- Low FODMAP Diet
- Gluten-Free Diet
— In this interview —
U.S. News & World Report Diet Rankings: The rigorous process of evaluating 38 different diets based on consumer feedback and expert analysis.
Consumer Insights: The panel considered responses from 3,500 consumers regarding their motivations for dieting, such as weight loss and health improvement.
Top Diets: The Mediterranean Diet is noted as the best overall diet, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Other popular diets include the Ornish Diet and the Flexitarian Diet.
Specific Diets for Conditions: Discussion on diets like the low FODMAP diet for IBS and the gluten-free diet for celiac disease.
Personal Bias: Marin reflects on how she managed her personal biases while evaluating diets that may not align with her own plant-based philosophy.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.4 | They narrowed it down to 38 different diets. |
| 0:07.6 | And then these 20 specific categories, what's the best diet for arthritis, diverticulitis, fatty liver, brain health, different buckets of who we thought these diets could help. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:26.5 | Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around |
| 0:31.6 | the world. Hi, to the exam room, he's listening in El Cajon, California, and along the Palm |
| 0:37.0 | Coast of Florida and Yichan, China. |
| 0:40.3 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:44.6 | This is episode 19 of Season 8, number 618 overall. |
| 0:49.7 | And have you ever wondered how those best diet rankings are compiled? |
| 0:54.6 | Well, today we are going to unearth that process for U.S. News and World Report, because with us today, |
| 1:02.7 | we have with us a certified gastrointestinal nutritionist and registered dietitian who happened to be among the panel of experts who helped to compile the |
| 1:12.3 | rankings for this year's list. Dahlia Marin is back with us today. She of course from |
| 1:19.1 | married to health. She is here to share the lengthy process that determined the rankings and which |
| 1:25.7 | diets overall proved to be the healthiest on this year's list. |
| 1:30.4 | And she's also going to give her insight as to why many of these top scoring diets are plant predominant. |
| 1:39.5 | So you're going to hear her talk about how experts from all across all walks of life, whether they be medical |
| 1:45.1 | fields or nutritionists or even culinary chefs, all of them got together to compile these |
| 1:51.3 | lists. And they had a list of about 38 different diets that they were looking at to complete |
| 1:57.2 | their task. And these diets, this list of 38, that was largely generated by over 3,000 |
| 2:05.3 | responses from consumers who were talking about what it is they view as healthy for their diet, |
| 2:13.3 | the most important things for them being weight loss and health improvement. And then, of course, the top diets, you're going to hear us talk about the plant-based diet, |
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