The Mediterranean diet remains the top diet for 2025: Exploring its enduring appeal among medical professionals and nutritionists.

The Mediterranean diet remains the top diet for 2025: Exploring its enduring appeal among medical professionals and nutritionists.
The Mediterranean diet remains the top diet for 2025: Exploring its enduring appeal among medical professionals and nutritionists.

Your daily diet influences your mood, weight, and sleep, and as you set New Year's resolutions, you may be contemplating dietary changes to improve your health and wellness.

To help you maintain a healthy weight and eat well, the U.S. News & World Report ranks the top science-based diets in their Best Diets of 2025 report.

A group of 69 nutrition and diet specialists evaluated and ranked 38 diets according to specific criteria.

  • Nutritional completeness
  • Health risks and benefits
  • Long-term sustainability
  • Evidence-based effectiveness

The top 10 diets, along with the reasons why No. 1 is frequently recommended by health experts, are listed here.

No. 1 best diet for 2025: Mediterranean diet

The Mediterranean diet is frequently ranked as the best diet for health by U.S. News & World Report.

According to the report, the diet is predominantly plant-based, diabetes-friendly, and heart-healthy, and has been found to decrease the likelihood of developing conditions such as heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.

To achieve success on the Mediterranean diet, it's important to focus on certain foods and steer clear of others.

Eat:

  • Fruits
  • Vegetables
  • Whole grains
  • Beans
  • Nuts
  • Healthy fats
  • Fish
  • Poultry

Limit:

  • Sweets
  • Processed foods
  • Red meat

Top 10 best diets for 2025

The U.S. News & World Report has ranked the top 10 best diets for 2025, and it's not just the Mediterranean diet that experts recommend.

  1. Mediterranean diet
  2. Flexitarian diet
  3. Mayo Clinic diet
  4. TLC diet
  5. Menopause diet
  6. Dr. Weil's Anti-Inflammatory diet
  7. Volumetrics diet
  8. Cleveland Clinic diet

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