Dukan diet popularized by the French diet expert Dr. Pierre Dukan nearly a decade ago. Diet is considered by many as a modification of the diet popularized by Dr. Atkins. Robert C. Atkins since the 1970s.
Fever diet that has long been popular Dukan in France is now more popular after the news emerged British candidate's daughter Kate Middleton is Prince William will marry next April turned out to use this diet so that her body was always slim.
Diet Dukan in demand because many people especially women can lose weight quickly through its phases, and then can maintain weight stability is achieved. Diet Dukan does not recognize carbohydrate but high in protein.
Reporting from dukandiet.co.uk site on Monday (3/21/2011) there are 4 stages in the diet Dukan as an attempt to achieve ideal weight naturally fast and stable.
The four stages are:
Phase 1Called to the stage of 'attack' with the result of rapid weight loss. In this phase focus on eating high protein. There is a list of 72 high-protein foods that can be consumed which gives the effect of rapid weight loss.
This phase lasted for 3-10 days with only eating pure protein from meat, fish or dairy products and processed products. Water consumption should be around 3 liters per day.
Why high-protein foods make to lose weight? This is because by eating high protein ketonik body will produce cells that are naturally able to suppress appetite.
Phase 2Called to the stage of 'Sailing' to get to the true weight. This phase focuses on eating vegetables. There are 28 vegetables are recommended in this phase.
So food in phase 1 plus the vegetables but may not enter vegetables that contain carbohydrates such as potatoes, corn, beans.
The target of this phase is that each week decreased a maximum of 1 kg of body weight. The bottom line is mixed with vegetable protein foods like meat stir fry with vegetables, meat soup.
Stage 3Called the consolidation phase because the person has reached the target weight. For weight does not back up (yo-yo), then this ditahap people should return to balanced food.
The goal is that the body can readjust so that the weight should ideally not last long. Carbohydrate eating habits remain eliminated gradually and use the new diet. At this stage the target weight loss of 1 kg every 10 days.
Stage 4This phase is called phase stability because it has passed the phase of consolidation where the weight will begin to stabilize. Eat a normal start while avoiding high-carbohydrate, every single day of the week (preferably Thursday) may only be a pure protein diet forever and just eat cereal in the morning.
But according to dietitian in New York Tanya Zuckerbot as reported by FoxNews, Monday (21/03/2011) diet is dangerous and can make people undernourished because there are no carbs in it. In addition, people can have high cholesterol and even kidney problems due to high protein consumption.
According to him the best diet is a diet consisting of high-fiber carbohydrates, lean protein, fruits, vegetables and less fat.
Source:detik.com