Consumer Reports Rates Diet Plans

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Consumer Reports Rates Diet Plans

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/105/107889.htm

"Weight Watchers is the best overall diet plan, according to new Consumer Reports ratings. The ratings are based on combined scores for nutritional value and weight loss effectiveness. The nonprofit consumer group has never before rated commercially available diet plans.

Consumer Reports Senior Editor Nancy Metcalf wrote the report for the June issue of Consumer Reports.

"For the first time we have some good information on how these diets work for real people, as opposed to just having the claims of people who created the diets," Metcalf tells WebMD. "And now we have new dietary guidelines,new dietary guidelines, so that gives us a nutritional standard to measure these diets against."

Nutritional ratings came from a commercial software program that gives detailed information about virtually any food. Metcalf and colleagues took a sample week-long menu from each of the diet plans and fed a description into the program. They then compared the nutritional content of each diet to the new U.S. dietary recommendations.

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[democrat in Tallahassee]

1. I lost 84 pounds on Weight watchers. It's very good.

and very easy.

[Sugarbleus]

2. I've used them in the past. It worked...

Unfortunately, I've gained MORE. I have a bunch of coupons for them but I've not been in. I want to return the coupons and purchase a home-diet kit. For some reason, Mozilla will not communicate with Weight Watcher's web site or else I'd do it online.