Long time no post! I've heard lots in the media about the "Dukan Diet" lately, so I decided to look it up. Apparently this diet has been popular in France for some time, but has only just really made it here to Australia, and at a casual glance it looks scarily similar to the Atkins diet. The big issue with low-carb diets like Atkins and Dukan is that although most people lose some weight, they actually get less healthy, sometimes dramatically so - such as the sudden cardiac death of a 16-year old. It is timely that the latest two videos on NutritionFacts.org relate to Atkins-style low-carb diets. No surprise that for anyone wanting to lose weight and get more healthy, I reckon a whole-food plant-based diet is the way to go. It's pretty simple really - eat more plant products in their most unrefined state and get rid of animal products and refined sugars, fats and oils. If you like something a bit more programmatic, there are plenty of possibilities, eg. the Engine 2 Diet or Joel Fuhrman's Eat to Live are two of the more commercially successful.
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