2014 Best Diets in order of ranking

EVERY year, US News assembles a judging panel of top nutrition experts to adjudicate on the best popular diets.

The diets are ranked on how easy they are to follow, their ability to produce short-term and long-term weight loss, their nutritional completeness, their safety and their potential for preventing and managing diabetes and heart disease.

In his assessment of the 2014 Best Diets ranking process, Prof David Katz, director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Centre, pointed out that many diets are more likely to be marked by their similarities than differences.