5 most important principles of the Dukan diet + doctors' opinion

05/24/2019 Olga Migunova 0 comments

When a woman has firmly decided to lose weight and begins to search on the Internet for the best diet that gives almost instant results, it is difficult to stop her. Especially after she reads the praises in favor of one method or another. Today we will find out what the Dukan diet is, how effective it is, debunk myths and get acquainted with criticism.

The Dukan diet - all the most important nuances

The Dukan diet is based on eating foods high in protein and promotes weight loss from one and a half to fifty kilograms. Tempting? Certainly!

But how safe is it for health? Let's figure it out.

Author's identity

French general practitioner Pierre Dukan, whose diet at one time excited millions of overweight people, developed it over the course of twenty years.

In the mid-seventies of the last century, obesity was fought through a diet that included low-carbohydrate foods. Dukan invented a new technique consisting of four stages - attack, alternation, consolidation and stabilization - which allow you not only to lose weight, but also to maintain weight in an unchanged state.

Currently, Pierre Dukan is not officially a physician; back in 2012, the French Council of Physicians considered it unacceptable to popularize a rather dubious diet and turn official medical practice into a source of personal income. As a result, Dukan left medicine “of his own free will.” Two years later he was expelled from the medical register.

In his youth, Dukan showed great promise as a neuropathologist. He became a nutritionist quite by accident after a patient who was overweight and had developed serious depression came to him. Dukan offered him a new diet, consisting only of lean meats and clean water. Thanks to this strict mono-diet, the patient lost five kilograms in a week.

Since then, Dukan began studying protein-rich foods and their effect on the human body. After twenty years, he wrote the book “I Can’t Lose Weight,” which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. From that moment on, the finest hour of the former neurologist began.

After sociological surveys, it was found that 35% of people losing weight using the Dukan method regained the lost pounds within a year. 80% regained their previous weight within four years.

Basic principles

• Permitted products. A person losing weight is allowed to eat foods rich in animal and plant protein, which are easily absorbed by the body and contribute to weight loss. The number of such products is more than a hundred, that is, the diet is quite comfortable in terms of a variety of dishes.
• Movement. Physical activity is mandatory - morning exercises, the gym, or at least walking over rough terrain. Well, or you can clean your apartment every day, vigorously moving with a mop. Here, as they say, everyone chooses for themselves how to increase activity - fitness or weeding in the garden.
• Water! Don't forget to drink clean water one and a half to two liters a day.
• Bran. They are essential as a source of fiber, which promotes proper digestive processes.
• Calculator. Before starting a diet, you need to calculate your Dukan weight in order to know how many days you need to devote to a particular stage. There is a special calculator, you can easily find it on the Internet and on pages dedicated to this diet. In the form provided, you must enter your age, height, weight, and degree of daily physical activity. The calculation is done instantly and absolutely free.

Doctors' opinions on diet

If you completely eliminate carbohydrates from your diet or significantly reduce their amount, then the body, willy-nilly, will begin to take the missing energy by breaking down fat. But first it will use up all the glycogen reserves stored in the liver, and only then it will get to the fat reserves on the sides and thighs.

Glycogen is an energy reserve, thanks to which the body can quickly replenish the lack of glucose. Its amount in the liver of an adult is 100-120 g.

If glycogen stores are depleted, ketosis will begin - the breakdown of fat with the formation of a large number of ketone cells (acetone). High concentrations of glucose and acetone bodies in the blood can lead to an acid-base imbalance in the direction of increasing acidity. Prolonged disturbance of carbohydrate metabolism ultimately leads to diabetic ketoacidotic coma.

Those who are interested in the Dukan diet should know that a positive result without harm to health will only occur if the pancreas is able to produce a sufficient amount of insulin, which reduces the concentration of glucose in the blood.

Low-carbohydrate diets are especially dangerous for people who have metabolic disorders, and they may not even know about it, since these disorders do not manifest themselves in any way with their usual diet. As a result, acidosis may develop, which is manifested by frequent headaches, chronic fatigue, arrhythmia or rapid heartbeat, constant drowsiness and weakness.

American doctor and recognized expert on obesity and proper weight loss, Luris Aronie, harshly criticized the Dukan method. He believes that it causes serious damage to the kidneys due to long-term protein intake and can eventually lead to kidney failure.

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Of the four stages, only the last is not harmful to health. In addition, a person is weak and cannot live under constant restrictions, and a breakdown and relaxation will certainly return the kilograms so heavily lost.

Biography

Pierre Dukan is a French writer, as well as a former nutritionist who developed his own nutritional methodology, which is one of the five most popular diets.

Pierre Dukan was born in Algeria, which at that time was a French colony. Pierre's parents had their own textile workshop. After the end of World War II, the family moved to relatives in France. In this country, Dukan graduated from secondary school. The boy also studied in an art studio, as he had abilities in the fine arts.

Nutritionist and writer Pierre Dukan

After school, Pierre Dukan entered art college to later become an art historian, and possibly an artist. But life changed due to the death of her mother. The woman was diagnosed with brain cancer, and the doctors, initially confident of success, could not save the patient.

Stage No. 1. Attack

This is the toughest and most difficult period. Usually it does not exceed seven days; the Dukan calculator will show you a more accurate figure.

Rules

At this time, you need to completely eliminate carbohydrates from your diet and increase your intake of protein foods. The body is saturated with protein, rebuilds metabolism and rapidly destroys fat deposits.

Every morning starts with a spoonful of oat bran. During the day, you can eat any food from the permitted list and in unlimited quantities. They need to be baked, boiled or steamed. Don't forget about water, since most drinks are prohibited, it is almost the only source of liquid.

The body begins to rebuild itself, so you should not fully engage in sports; it is better to limit yourself to walking or simple gymnastics.

Estimated weight loss is 2-5 kg.

Criticism

The “Attack” stage really allows you to reduce weight by a certain number of kilograms (this indicator is individual for everyone), but this does not happen due to fat burning, but through dehydration. But those who are losing weight see a change in the numbers on the scales, get inspired and continue to aggravate the imbalance in nutrition.

The body experiences a shock through the almost complete elimination of carbohydrates from the body. The person begins to feel weak, tired, and irritable. At this time, it is better for his family and colleagues to stay away from him - mood swings can ruin the emotional background in the family and team for a long time.

What's really going on? Excess protein has a toxic effect on the nervous system because it is broken down into amino acids and a large release of ammonia occurs. The body does not receive the usual elements due to the lack of carbohydrates; without fiber, the intestines stop working properly, which means constipation is guaranteed.

In addition, the liver and kidneys are the first to meet the protein attack. If they are weak or not ready for such stress, then an outbreak of various diseases can be expected.

On the part of the heart and blood vessels, you will also get a problem in the form of unlimited intake of bad cholesterol into the body.

The Chinese approached the choice of execution for criminals with great imagination. The villains were punished quite sophisticatedly so that they would suffer for as long as possible before dying. The condemned were fed only meat for a long time, after which the unfortunate person died in severe agony due to the processes of rotting in the intestines and poisoning of the body with toxins.

Carbohydrates are necessary for humans to properly break down proteins and fats. If they do not enter the body, then an obligatory imbalance, metabolic disorders and intoxication await it.

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During the “Attack”, excess protein quickly begins to remove water, which significantly increases the kidney load. In addition, the smart body tries to protect itself and tries in every way to retain the precious liquid. As a result, when changing stages and introducing more gentle diet conditions, many begin to notice swelling even after eating one tomato.

One gram of carbohydrates retains 4 ml of liquid, and after carbohydrate fasting this figure increases significantly. If a breakdown occurs, and it is inevitable due to energy decline and imbalance, then you are unlikely to eat ordinary buckwheat - you will be drawn to sweets and starchy foods. And given the increasing water retention, the number on the scales will definitely not please you.

The complete absence of fats at this stage is fraught with aging of the skin, vision, hair and nails deteriorate. Bones become more fragile and brittle, brain activity deteriorates, and problems with the reproductive system appear.

After the “Attack”, a person feels like a wrung out rag, incapable of anything - lethargy, drowsiness, mood swings from outbursts of aggression to complete apathy. The body is trying with all its might to signal a problem, but those losing weight are stubborn and purposefully moving towards the next phase of the Dukan diet.

But we are no less persistent and will soon get there.

Authorized products

This stage includes 72 foods that are rich in protein, which you can find on websites advertising this diet. Among them are lean meat, poultry, fish and seafood, milk and its derivatives with low fat content, eggs. True, during the day you can only eat two full eggs with a yolk and a white, and if you exclude the yolk, then the restrictions are lifted - eat as much as you like.

You will definitely have to say goodbye to:

• coffee and tea;
• salt, mustard and seasonings;
• vinegar;
• all types of greens - no herbs, vegetables, fruits and generally a complete ban on plant foods;
• oils and fats, both vegetable and animal origin;
• alcohol and most drinks.

You can only eat protein foods!

Menu for the week

Dukan diet recipes for the “Attack” phase

In order not to reinvent the wheel and not have to figure out what to cook, you can use ready-made recipes according to Dukan.

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Lean minced meat chops

You can take absolutely any lean meat - chicken, turkey, rabbit or beef. It is finely chopped or passed through a meat grinder, a raw egg is added, and then beaten well and formed into flat cakes.

Each flatbread is dipped in egg and breaded in oat bran. Cook the chops on the grill, in a slow cooker in the “Baking” mode, or fry in a Teflon frying pan without oil.

Chicken soup

Everything is simple here. The chicken breast is boiled until tender, cut into small pieces or ground in a blender and thrown back into the boiling broth. Beat a couple of eggs with a fork and pour into the broth in a thin stream. In a few minutes, the protein soup is ready.

Syrniki

Chicken eggs are beaten into low-fat cottage cheese, a few tablespoons of bran and a sugar substitute are added. All ingredients are mixed well, placed in silicone molds and prepared in any available way - in the oven, in a slow cooker in the “Baking” mode or steamed.

Stage No. 2. Alternation, or “Cruise”

This is the most important stage in losing weight according to the Dukan method. At the second stage, the desired relaxation begins. What is it?

Rules

To the previously permitted 72 products, another 28 are added, these are mainly vegetables. The duration of the period depends on the expected weight loss - one week is allotted for one kilogram.

During this period, there is an alternation of protein and protein-vegetable days. The body is already somewhat accustomed to “bullying” and nutritional errors, so weight loss will not be as active.

If you need to get rid of five kilograms, then the alternation regime will be every other day - a protein day, a protein-vegetable day. From 5 to 10 kg - scheme 2/2 or 3/3. And over ten kilograms – 5/5.

And if in the first phase it was possible to eat an unlimited number of protein products, here the portions of vegetables are regulated.

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Statistics say that at this stage the average person loses no more than 400-500 g of weight per week. This means that the diet is far from being as fast and effective as interested parties “trumpet” it.

Criticism

So what do we have at this stage? Not 72 products, but as many as 100! It's just a celebration of the belly!

The period of losing weight is quite long; you will have to adhere to a special schedule - alternating protein and protein-vegetable days until the weight reaches the desired figure. If you need to lose ten kilograms, then in three months you may not bring yourself to the grave. But it’s scary to think what harm those who need to get rid of 30-40-50 kg do to themselves!

By the way, fruits and complex carbohydrates are still strictly prohibited. It’s good that there is fiber in the form of bran and vegetables have been introduced into the diet - this is already some kind of relief.

Unfortunately, our fellow citizens who want to lose weight on this diet sometimes ignore the required bran due to their lack of availability on the market. Like, “that’ll do, I stick to the basic diet.” As a result, they risk repeating the path of Chinese criminals, condemned to slow death from purely protein foods without fiber.

Authorized products

During this period, it is allowed to eat raw, boiled, baked or steamed vegetables. You can diversify your diet with a little dry wine (no more than 100 g), low-fat cheese, mustard, low-fat lactic acid products, as well as:

• tomatoes and cucumbers;
• carrots;
• cabbage;
• beets;
• green beans;
• zucchini;
• mushrooms;
• radishes;
• eggplants;
• asparagus;
• hot red pepper.

But do not forget that frying or adding oil is strictly prohibited. And no one has canceled the mandatory bran; at this stage, their daily intake increases to two tablespoons.

The following products are prohibited:

• starch-containing - potatoes, avocados, legumes, artichokes, corn;
• any cereals;
• industrial sauces – mayonnaise, ketchup and others;
• desserts and baked goods;
• fat.

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Menu for the week

Dukan diet recipes for the “Alternation” stage

At this stage, culinary possibilities expand significantly, and Dukan recipes are more numerous and varied.

Curd and chicken appetizer from zucchini

Chicken fillet is finely chopped or passed through a meat grinder. Spices, onions and garlic are added to the minced meat.

The zucchini is cut into circles, the middle is cut out to create a depression in which minced meat, a tomato ring, cottage cheese are laid out and sprinkled with black pepper.

The appetizer is baked in the oven for half an hour.

Stuffed champignons

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• The stems of large champignons are carefully separated, finely chopped and stewed in their own juice until tender.
• Chicken fillet is boiled, chopped and combined with stewed mushrooms.
• The resulting mass is seasoned with low-fat natural yoghurt and placed in champignon caps.
• Stuffed mushrooms are baked in a well-heated oven for 40 minutes at 180 °C.
• Before serving, champignons are decorated with finely chopped herbs.

Festive spinach roll with salmon

• Frozen spinach (400 g) is thawed and squeezed well to remove excess liquid.
• Five chicken eggs are mixed with a quarter glass of low-fat milk and beaten.
• Combine the egg mixture with the spinach and stir until smooth.
• Place a silicone mat on a baking sheet and spread the spinach and egg over it in an even layer.
• You need to bake literally 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C, most importantly, try not to dry it out.
• After baking, the spinach layer is greased with soft low-fat cottage cheese, slices of lightly salted salmon are laid out on top and wrapped in a roll.
• The resulting roll is wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator for several hours, or best of all, overnight.

Stage No. 3. Consolidation, or Consolidation

Lost weight needs to be maintained. This is exactly what the third phase of the diet is aimed at.

Rules

• A number of other products are added to the diet, and it is allowed to organize a “belly feast” with high-calorie dishes twice a week. Serving size should not exceed 220 g.
• At least once a week you will have to eat purely protein foods. Diet adherents call this day “Protein Thursday,” but you can choose any other day of the week, but it is advisable that it occurs after “holiday” excesses.
• You need to eat 2.5 tablespoons of required bran daily. And don’t forget to drink clean water - at least one and a half liters a day.

The stage is designed for a fairly long period - for every ten days there is 1 kg lost during the alternation phase. If in the second stage you lost 15 kg, then the third stage will last 150 days.

Criticism

If you remain alive and relatively healthy after the first two stages, then we will continue to analyze our fascinating quest “How to ruin your health in pursuit of an ideal figure, and at the same time make fun of yourself to your loved ones.”

The theory says that the body will strive to gain back the lost kilograms by any means. It passionately craves this, and you, accordingly, try to resist it no less passionately.

Well, what can we say, the body is exhausted, dehydrated, and deprived of many useful substances. And now he is given one hundred grams of whole grain bread a day, a small portion of fruit and a “feast” of complex carbohydrates once a week, after which he needs to have a fasting day on pure protein.

Moreover, this unimaginable mockery must last for a very, very long time, which is fraught with breakdowns, after which diet adherents will tell you that “it is their own fault.”

It is at this stage, when tasty things are allowed, that the weight can begin to “jump” like a child’s yo-yo. The feeling of hunger sharply worsens, raking hands are reaching out to eat forbidden foods or extend the “holidays”.

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Problems with nails, skin and hair begin to bother me again. Those who are losing weight feel weak, tired, drowsy, and often experience chills. In general, once again everything is bad.

Authorized products

At this stage you can introduce into the diet:

• fruits, except bananas and grapes (no more than 100 g per day);
• whole grain bread (literally two slices);
• low fat cheese;
• vegetables with a high starch content - legumes, rice, potatoes and corn;
• durum wheat pasta;
• a little honey;
• spices.

Of course, the products from the first two phases are preserved.

Menu for the week

Recipes according to Dukan

Salad with lightly salted salmon

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Ingredients:

• salmon – 150 g;
• lettuce leaves;
• cherry tomatoes – 5-7 pcs.;
• green apple – 1 pc.;
• fresh cucumbers – 2 pcs.;
• Feta cheese – 140 g;
• lemon juice – 3 tbsp;
• sugar – 2 tsp;
• wine vinegar – 1 tsp;
• red pepper - to taste;
• olive oil;
• chopped cilantro or parsley.

All salad components are cut into arbitrary slices, mixed and seasoned with lemon juice. This salad can be prepared for a festive table, and your guests will not even suspect that they are eating a dish from Dukan.

Creamy salmon soup

Ingredients:

• salmon fillet – 300 g;
• onions – 2-3 heads;
• low-fat cream – 100 ml;
• potatoes – 2-3 pcs.;
• medium-sized carrots – 1 pc.;
• herbs, spices - to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

First you need to cook broth from red fish fillet and whole onion. The rest of the onion is finely chopped and fried along with grated carrots.

The potatoes are peeled and cut into cubes or slices in the usual way. The fish is taken out of the broth and chopped.

Vegetables, fish and spices are placed in boiling broth for 20-30 minutes. After the potatoes are cooked, you can add cream.

Before serving, add finely chopped herbs to the plate.

Catfish fish cutlets

The fish fillet is twisted through a meat grinder along with onions and bread soaked in milk. An egg is beaten into the minced meat, spices and salt are added, you can grate a large potato on a fine grater for greater juiciness.

Cutlets are formed, breaded in oat bran and fried in vegetable oil.

Stage No. 4. Stabilization

And finally, at this stage, you can eat whatever your heart desires if you follow the mandatory rules.

Rules

• Once a week you need to eat exclusively protein foods.
• The daily portion of bran is not canceled - now you need to eat three tablespoons of it.
• Water consumption should remain unchanged - at least one and a half liters per day.
• The diet needs to be balanced as much as possible. To do this, it is recommended to eat a piece of cheese, two starchy vegetables, a couple of slices of whole grain bread, vegetables, protein products, and fruit as dessert every day.
• The size of the meal should be moderate - more often is better than more.
• It is preferable to replace fatty fish with other seafood.
• Mandatory physical activity must be maintained. Make it a habit to walk up stairs and avoid elevators.
• Try to avoid stress.

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You must follow these recommendations for life if you do not want to gain excess weight again.

Criticism

As soon as the desired results have been achieved, most of those losing weight break down and indulge in “all serious things”. They return to their previous diet and start EATING!

If you managed to get to the last stage of the Dukan diet and did not get any health problems, then you need to erect a monument during your lifetime. Usually at the finish line you can find unfortunate people who have a metabolic disorder and have acquired many related problems - irregular periods, baldness, dull and gray skin, constipation, kidney stones and gall bladder.

Now think about why you needed this torment if in the same year you could lose weight by simply removing fast carbohydrates, sausage, fried foods and pickles from your diet? At the same time, you wouldn’t have to limit yourself to a hundred foods and deprive your body of the complex carbohydrates it needs so much.

Contraindications

The Dukan diet is strictly prohibited for people suffering from:

• kidney diseases and renal failure;
• cholecystitis;
• blood pressure problems;
• disorders of the cardiovascular system;
• stomach ulcer;
• intestinal dyskinesia;
• atherosclerosis;
• stones in the gall bladder.

Expectant and nursing mothers should not experiment on themselves, although Dukan has developed a special technique for pregnant women. Refrain from such “treatment” of obesity in children, adolescents and the elderly.

Envious people and critics

Biochemists were the first to whisper about the dangers of a diet with a predominance of protein, and later they appeared on television with statements that an excess of protein compounds poses a danger to the functioning of the kidneys and the excretory system as a whole. In the sea of ​​enthusiasm caused by a successful diet, they went almost unnoticed.

But Dukan’s colleague and friend Jean-Michel Cohen, by the way, also a nutritionist, gave a long interview to a modern glossy magazine, in which he persistently repeated the concerns of biochemists. Pierre took this as a betrayal and as envy of his success. He filed a lawsuit for material and moral damage caused to his reputation. But the judges classified Cohen's statements as expressions of personal opinion, so to speak, nothing personal, and the claim was denied.

Pros and cons of the Dukan diet

If you believe the creator of the diet, the advantages of the weight loss technique are as follows.

• For a long time, the weight will remain unchanged after losing weight to the desired values.
• The diet is absolutely safe and highly effective.
• You can eat permitted foods in any quantity and whenever you want. And considering that there are more than a hundred of them, you can always diversify your menu with delicious dishes.
• The result is noticeable from the very first days.

It would seem - eat as much as you want, whenever you want, and lose weight! Fairy tale! But if we take off our rose-colored glasses and dig deeper, harsh reality appears before us in all its glory. Namely.

• Fats are almost completely excluded from the diet, and this is fraught with deterioration of the skin condition and many diseases - atherosclerosis develops, cholesterol metabolism is disrupted, the reproductive system is inhibited, and the general mental state worsens, since the nervous system does not work properly.
• The diet is unbalanced, which means that the body does not receive enough nutrients and elements, and its protective functions (immunity) are reduced. To fix this, you need to constantly take a vitamin-mineral complex, and it’s not a fact that it will help.
• Any restriction and refusal of certain foods leads to “shock” for the body. He has to get used to and adapt to new conditions, so a person begins to feel weak, tired, and his performance decreases.
• According to the diet, you need to eat oat bran every day, but they are not sold on every corner.

Pierre Dukan now

In 2021, the Dukan diet received only 34th place in the “Best Diets for Healthy Eating” ranking, behind a number of other popular diets. The benefits of this nutritional methodology received an average score of 2.0 out of a possible 5.0.

In the summer of 2021, Pierre Dukan began to have new problems associated with accusations that the diet did not work. This time it was not fellow scientists who opposed Dukan, but investors. The European Direct Investment Fund brought Pierre Dukan to justice. The writer was accused of fraud. According to the prosecutor, Pierre Dukan received funding and consulting services to promote his own proprietary diet in the United States, but initially did not intend to fulfill his contractual obligations.

Pierre Dukan

However, scandals and excommunication from the scientific community do not prevent Dukan from continuing to write and sell books, as well as tour with lectures and presentations. Today, 11 million books on the Dukan protein diet have already been sold around the world.

In 2021, Pierre Dukan presented a new book, “The 60 Most Important Days of Your Pregnancy,” in which a former nutritionist puts forward the theory that obesity and diabetes depend on what the mother of the child ate during pregnancy. Therefore, in his new book, Pierre Dukan examines a menu for pregnant women, which allows you to protect the unborn child from a number of serious diseases.

Reviews of women and men who have lost weight with this diet

Reviews about the Dukan diet are very contradictory, but they are worth reading.

• I lost 13 kg on Dukan, went through all the stages, but after that I couldn’t stop eating sweets and naturally everything came back. Now I eat right plus exercise, the weight comes off slowly, but there is no such craving for sweets.
• I have a friend who is on this diet and is absolutely delighted. But I couldn’t, because chewing empty cottage cheese all day is tough, and it’s too easy not to add vegetables to the meat. In general, I realized that this diet is definitely not for me.
• I went through this diet myself, after several weeks of Alternation I howled like a wolf, my stomach dropped and I don’t want to write anything other than negativity.
• I'm against Dukan. I'm still trying to convince my parents. They sat on it for six months and want to return to it again.
• My mother-in-law was also on this diet at the age of 60!!! And yes, by the way, I lost weight... I just got rid of such problems with my stomach.
• Still, this diet is far from proper nutrition and this must be taken into account. Limiting carbohydrates is not the healthiest option for losing weight. You can’t eat fruits and berries, which are a significant source of vitamins. But if you follow all the recommendations and follow through, the technique is very effective.
• I lost five kilograms in a month, but serious kidney problems began and I had to quit.
• Effectively reduces weight, but cholesterol is steadily creeping up.
• Tasty and satisfying, effective for people with heavy weight. If you need to lose up to five kilograms, then it’s better not to start - it’s too expensive and a lot of hassle.
• The kilograms go away, but invariably return...

Personal life

Pierre Dukan spends a lot of time outside his native France. He travels around the world and holds seminars in many countries, gives lectures, gives recommendations and explains how best to apply the diet he developed.

Nutritionist and writer Pierre Dukan

The doctor has been happily married for many years. The nutritionist’s wife gave birth to two children, son Alexander and daughter Maya. The children did not follow in their father’s footsteps: Alexander works as a financier, and Maya graduated from the Higher Economic School.