If you want to lose weight, you’ve got options, from medications like GLP-1s to apps like Noom.

But an ancient — thousands of years old — diet could trump them in one big way.

With it, people eat highger-quality food over time, which research suggests keeps weight down for longer.

That’s the big upside of the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes olive oil, whole fruits and vegetables, and fish over red meat. The University of North Carolina developed “Med-South,” which adapts these principles to Southern favorites.

Researchers in a new study pitted the Med-South program against the Weight Watchers program, a standard for weight loss that’s been…

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