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Top 5 best diets for weight loss

Diets come and go (remember the Cabbage Soup diet - burp!).  You've got a choice: you can try every fad diet that comes across your fax machine (or shows up in your Internet search for "best weight loss diet"). Or...you can use the research already conducted by a reliable source: U.S. News and World Reports.

Here's what that reliable publication discovered when they studied which diets succeed in helping you lose weight and keep it off. They rated 5 diets as the "Best":

  1. Weight Watchers Diet
  2. Biggest Loser Diet
  3. Jenny Craig Diet
  4. Raw Food Diet
  5. Volumetrics Diet
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Joanne Eglash has an M.S. in nutrition and more than 20 years of journalism experience. Currently a featured food columnist for Yahoo, she invites you to follow her on Twitter.

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