The best diet for staying trim according to Harvard

The best diet for staying trim according to Harvard

What’s the best diet for not only losing weight, but keeping it off, too? It’s not a carb-free diet, or the Atkins diet, and it doesn’t involved absorbing trendier notions about eating according to one’s blood type. The most effective eating plan is simple: it’s one you can follow over the long-term, says one expert.

During a recent lecture at the Harvard School of Public Health, Eric Rimm, associate professor in the departments of epidemiology and nutrition at HSPH and director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, considered the pros and cons of the health and diet landscape, particularly as it exists in popular culture.