The Diets Doctors Recommend and Follow for Weight Loss and Overall Health

Ever wonder what diet doctors follow? Physicians dole out advice, but what do they do in their own lives? That's what a survey advised by Duke University and the University of North Carolina sought to uncover when they asked 515 doctors about diets: What did they recommend for short-term weight loss and for long-term health, and how did they themselves eat?

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The most popular diets doctors recommend and follow (across all three categories) was the vegetable-and-whole-grain-heavy Mediterranean diet (the same diet the U.S. News & World Report ranked No.1). For long-term health, keto fared just below vegan. Below is the breakdown of how docs feed their bodies.

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