Consumer Reports Rates The Diets

Consumer Reports Rates The Diets and The Diet Books

According to the June 2007 issue of Consumer Reports, Volumetrics is the most carefully researched diet plan, and The Best Life Diet is the best diet book.

To rate the diet books, newer diets that, according to CR "have not been put to the test of a large clinical trial", the magazine's staff applied their own criteria and sought input from a panel of nutrition experts. Among other tings, CR staff considered a weeks' menus from the book or website, and how well the diets conformed to the 2005 U.S. dietary guidelines.

After The Best Life Diet, CR rated 3 books as coming in very close seconds: Eat, Drink, & Weigh Less (by Mollie Katzen and Walter Willet, MD), You On A Diet (by Michael Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, MD), and The Abs Diet (by David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).

The following were ranked LAST among the diet books: The South Beach Diet, The Sonoma Diet, and Ultra-Metabolism. Of course, the authors disputed CR's ratings if they were not favorable.

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