--- title: DASH Diet Picked as Best Diet of the Year description: Diet eschews gimmicks for straightforward healthy eating canonical: https://time.com/3656116/dash-diet/ author: Victor Luckerson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-06T18:09:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:19:58.907Z article:section: Health og:title: DASH Diet Picked as Best Diet of the Year og:description: Diet eschews gimmicks for straightforward healthy eating og:url: https://time.com/3656116/dash-diet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: DASH Diet Picked as Best Diet of the Year twitter:description: Diet eschews gimmicks for straightforward healthy eating twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # DASH Diet Named Best Diet of the Year > Sponsored content. 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The DASH Diet focuses on a healthy mixture of whole grains and vegetables and is more focused on improving nutrition and heart health than losing weight (through strict adherence should still help dieters shed some pounds). While a lot of gimmicky diets have come and gone, the rules of the DASH diet are pretty intuitive: eat from the healthy food groups, avoid red meat and sweets, and cut back on salt. For dieters more speciifcally focused on weight loss, _U.S. News & World Report_ selected Weight Watchers as the best diet. IT was also picked as the easiest diet to follow. 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