Spoiler Alert: People will try anything to make themselves eat vegetables.
DASH Diet
Sadly not related to the Kardashians, DASH actually stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension and was designed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to lower and prevent high blood pressure by doing exactly what you already know is good for you: Eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains and less red meat.
Ranked Number One by U.S. News four years in a row, there's one real caveat: math. You'll have to calculate your own daily calorie allowance based on your age and activity level. Luckily, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has provided both a long and short guide to help.
Ornish Diet
This hippy-dippy diet is laid out in the 2007 book, The Spectrum . Followers can choose their commitment level based on their desired results and they can make up for a “bad” day by following it with a “good” one. The plan looks at four lifestyle components — nutrition, exercise, stress management, and emotional support — and claims it can have a number of outcomes, from weight loss to reversing chronic disease. “It's basically just healthy eating,” says nutritionist Amy Shapiro of Real Nutrition NYC. But if you need somebody to plan your every meal and cardio session, this is not the plan for you. If you like to go with the flow over to yoga class, then maybe.
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The “Nothing White” Diet
This diet sounds crazier than it actually is; if you think about what foods are white, you won't be surprised that a diet is telling you not to eat them. (Goodbye regular pasta, hello whole wheat!) As Shapiro puts it, “If you're not going to eat anything white, then you're not going to eat any crap.”
There are some exceptions to the “nothing white” rule: cauliflower, egg whites, milk, poultry, parsnips, and milk are all fair game. And you do still need to keep those portions under control, so this isn't a brown food free-for-all. The theory is that if you can stick it out for two weeks, you'll stop craving white foods altogether. Eventually you can reintroduce them to your diet in small amounts.
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Acid Alkaline Diet
You probably haven't thought about your pH levels since Secret stopped running those “strong enough for a man but pH balanced for a woman” deodorant commercials. (A quick refresher on pH: it measures acids and bases, also known as alkalines, on a scale of 0 to 14, with acids ranging from 0 to 7, and alkalines between 7 and 14. Our bodies hang out between 7.35 and 7.45.) Supporters of the Acid Alkaline Diet (AAD) argue that foods that put our bodies into acid-forming mode — think red meat, dairy products, and sugar — are bad for our health, while foods that are alkaline-forming — like lentils, spinach and other vegetables — are good.
The goal is to consume 80% alkaline foods and 20% acidic ones at every meal. (Some people do 60/40.) “There's nothing crazy,” says Shapiro. “It's just, eat more whole foods.” So if looking up the pH values of all the foods you want to eat sounds like a good time, hop on the AAD bandwagon. Bonus: You'll have plenty to talk about next time you run into Victoria Beckham, who popularized the diet when she tweeted about how much she loved the Honestly Healthy cookbook.
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