The Dukan diet reaches the US – CollegeNews
Dubbed the Dr. Atkins of France, Pierre Dukan brings a new diet to the U.S.
Scared of saying good-bye to carbs forever with the Atkins diet or annoyed by counting calories with Weight Watchers? If the above statement applies to you, then the Dukan diet may be just right. Inspired by both the Atkins diet and Weight Watchers, Pierre Dukan of France has created a diet that is moving quickly through America.
Coined the Dr. Atkins of France, Dukan’s diet promises that you won’t be counting calories, won’t feel hunger pains, maintain a lifelong happy weight and achieve the coveted instant weight loss goal. According to Calorie Lab, the Dukan diet includes four stages called attack, cruise, consolidation and stabilization.
The first stage, attack, encourages dieters to eat as much high-protein, non-fatty foods, such as oat bran, as they want followed by large amounts of water, as the NY Times reports. The second “cruise” stage enforces eating vegetabels, but no fruit. The consolidation stage allows “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” reports the Times. The final stage, stabilization allows six days of “anything goes” and one day restricting your diet back to stage one.
Accoring to the Times, 3.5 million copies of the original Dukan diet were sold in French and the book was printed in 14 different languages. The dukan diet book will come out next month through Crown Publishing with the phrase “The Real Reason the French Stay Thin,” on the cover. Needless to say, thousands of diet goers will be rushing the stores or websites to obtain this new diet, especially since future princess Kate Middleton is rumored to be using the Dukan diet to slim down for the royal wedding.