Top 10 Commercial Diet Plans Ranked by US News & World Report

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Weight Watchers (WW), Jenny Craig, and the Nutrarian Diet top the list of 10 best brand-name diet plans. Get highlights here, then find out what your patients are reading.

Brand-name, commercial diet plans are enticing to many who want and/or need to lose weight; the majority ranked recently by US News & World Report in its "Best Diets 2020" issue offer portion and calorie control in prepackaged meals delivered to the front door. Many, according to US News expert panelists, offer sound nutrition, promote heart health, and work against diabetes.Patient Care looked at the top 10 of the 13 Best Commercial Diet Plans ranked by US News and assembled top-line snapshots of the expert rankings in the 8 key categories: Diet Overall  *  Managing/preventing diabetes  *  Ease of following  * Heart-healthy profile  *  Long-term weight loss  *  Nutrition  *  Safety  *  Short-term weight loss. Diets are ranked on a scale of 0 to 5 stars.The full report offers myriad details on each. Links to all the details on each are provided. 

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