The Dukan Diet
The Dukan Diet argues that calorie-counting doesn’t help people lose weight; instead, eating plenty of protein helps. French general practitioner Dr. Pierre Dukan published a book about the program in 2000, and it quickly became a bestseller. On the diet, people aim to achieve their “true weight” (or goal weight) through four phases of eating plans.
So far, no clinical trials have evaluated the Dukan Diet. It requires a long list of rules that make the program hard to follow, especially in the first two weeks that promise to drop ten pounds. Some experts question the effectiveness of the diet.
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