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The dangers of Dukan diet (high protein) for weight loss
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.