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A high-protein diet for weight loss, such as the system Dukan (also called system beak) which is currently very popular, is dangerous “says Dr. Alain Golay has asked the journalist Marie-Christine Petit-Pierre for the newspaper Le Temps. Dr. Golay is medical director of the Education therapeutic for chronic diseases, diabetes and obesity, University Hospitals of Geneva.

The scheme, says it leads to a great hunger and a resumption of normal weight when food is gradually reintroduced.

Recall that the high-protein diet by Dr. Pierre Dukan method, which excludes carbohydrates or carbohydrates (starches, cereals, rice, pasta), consists of four phases: a relatively short attack phase where only the animal proteins are permitted, a cruise phase which are gradually added vegetables except starchy foods (potatoes, corn, peas, lentils, …) and finally a consolidation phase where carbohydrates are gradually reintroduced and a stabilization phase that is a return to normal diet with protein a day per week.

Some twenty years ago, said Dr. Golay, the high-protein diet had the support of hospitals, which is no longer the case, its deleterious effects have been shown by an abundant literature. He himself has tested the scheme in its practice. “Three groups followed six weeks of diet. The first with a balanced diet, the second separated, and the third protein diet. The weight loss was similar in all three categories. But those fed diets high protein were separated and taken over many more weight than the others later. ”

The high-protein diet allows the first phase without carbohydrates, not too hungry. But, he said, as soon as they are reintroduced, “the body screams with hunger. It “remembers that he was deprived of carbohydrates, and when he gets back, it stores all the better. And he’ll ask for more, for fear of missing”, which is gaining weight.

He advises those who have already started a fast-protein diet to reintroduce carbohydrates in moderate amounts. They will be very hungry at first, but the more they take their high-protein diet, the longer it will be difficult, “he said.

To lose weight, he advises the government “everybody knows”: half plate of vegetables, one quarter protein, one quarter of flour (potato, rice, pasta …), limiting fats sweets. “Nothing should be prohibited as it is a source of frustration.” This is not a diet, people need to achieve a balanced diet they can lose weight in normality. ”

20% of calories from the diet should come from protein (meat, fish, eggs, cheese) and 50% carbohydrates (from starchy, fruit, vegetables, dairy products), says he.

Day 3 Rare Diseases, held on February 28, aims to educate the public about these diseases that affect nearly one in 20 people, 3 million French and 30 million Europeans. There are 8,000 rare diseases in the world, because so-called orphan diseases neglected by medical research.

This day is an initiative coordinated by EURORDIS European Organization for Rare Diseases, which represents more than 400 patient organizations in 42 countries. Rare Diseases Day 2010 theme “building bridges between patients and researchers”, a theme that stresses the importance of research and the role of patient organizations.

Rare diseases affect each few people from the general population. In Europe, the threshold is reached a person on 2000, is for France more than 30,000 people with the same disease. Several of these diseases, however, affect a hundred people. 80% of these diseases are genetic in origin and most of them involving children. They are often severe, chronic, and involve life-threatening. Due to the low prevalence of these diseases, medical doctors are few, the knowledge is poor, the provision of inadequate care, the inadequate research. There are very few treatments.

A symposium organized by the European EURORDIS 1 March in Brussels, in cooperation with E-RARE and in partnership with the European Commission Orphanet and EUROPLAN, will advocate the inclusion of research on rare diseases in public funding schemes .

In France, associations want a second Plan for Rare Diseases, whose final version will be available in April at the stake.

Laurence Tiennot-Herment, president of the French Association against Myopathies (AFM) indicates that the association should support 43 trials within two years. Considerable resources are required for clinical development that can only be carried by public donations through the Telethon, “she pleads. It calls for public / private partnerships, noting that research on these diseases allows therapeutic innovation for common diseases.