Dr. Pierre Dukan, creator of the Dukan Diet.
The Dukan diet is heading to the United States.
If you haven’t heard about it, Dr. Pierre Dukan’s diet is all the rage in France as well as other places around the world. Dr. Dukan has sold over 10 million diet books in 11 languages and 27 different countries.
With the release of his books in the US next month, the Dukan diet is now poised to take America by storm.
Similar to Atkins
Those familiar to the Atkins diet will find much of the Dukan diet familiar. Both diets limit carbohydrates and both are 4 phase programs. If you remember, the 4 phases of the Atkins diet are induction, ongoing weight loss (OWL), pre-maintenance, and lifetime maintenance.
While Dukan share a four phase similarity, the phases have names that make them sound more like a battle plan, than the laboratory sterile names Atkins uses: attack, cruise, consolidation and stabilization.
Attack that flab!
Big Difference
While there are many little differences between the two diet plans, the biggest difference is in their approach to fat.
Where Atkins focuses predominately on the reduction of carbohydrates, especially in the first phase, Dukan limits both carbs and fat in the attack phase and focuses on eating complete protein.
The Dukan diet has a list of 100 foods, 72 have animal origins and 28 are vegetable originated. Dieters can eat as much of these 100 items as they like.
Three Rules
Once you get to the stabilization phase, Dukan has three rules. According to Dr. Dukan these three rules are non-negotiable because they go a long way towards preventing the regaining of lost weight, which is so often happens to folks after they diet.
The three rules are
- One day a week you eat protein just like in the attack phase
- You must eat three tablespoons of oat bran every day
- You must walk 20 minutes every day including never taking escalators or elevators.
Here’s to hoping you don’t work in a skyscraper!
Do you think the Dukan diet will catch on anywhere near as strongly as Atkins has in America?
