3.5 million copies of the Dukan Diet have been sold in France, and yet almost no one in America has heard of it.
But not for for long.
The diet book will debut America next month, and it├óΓé¼Γäós expected to make a splash… although we├óΓé¼Γäóre not sure it SHOULD.
Experts say the Dukan Diet is nothing more than a fancy name for “Atkins Diet.”
The New York Times explained it this way:
├óΓé¼┼ôHis own diet’s high-protein, low-fat approach is organized into four phases: attack, cruise, consolidation and stabilization. The first encourages dieters to eat as much as they want of nonfatty, protein rich foods, including oat bran (a key component) washed down with oceans of water. The second stage introduces vegetables, but no fruit; the third brings with it two slices of bread, a serving of cheese and fruit and two servings of carbohydrates a day, with two weekly “celebration” meals with wine and dessert (the diet is French, after all); and the final stage six days a week of “anything goes” and one day of reversion to strict protein-only stage one — for the rest of your life.├óΓé¼┬¥
One of the most important things to consider when starting a diet is whether or not it├óΓé¼Γäós sustainable. Ask yourself if you can see yourself sticking to the diet for an entire year — or more.
If not, try something else. Quick fixes many times are just that — quick. You├óΓé¼Γäóll gain the weight back once you get off the diet.
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