Dukan diet creator Pierre Dukan

 "The Dukan diet started 40 years ago with a comment to a patient he saw at his GP surgery who wanted to lose weight, and asked Dukan to devise a plan whose only restriction was that he wouldn't have to give up meat. "All right," Dukan told him, "eat only meat, as much meat as you want for five days." When the patient came back the following week, he had lost nearly 5.5kg and Dukan became convinced that a high-protein, low-fat and low-carb diet was the key to losing weight.

 The Dukan diet has been tried by millions and now its creator aims to tackle France's overweight students. But are the scales beginning to tip against the protein-loving doctor?"
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