The Dukan Diet is 'appearing 'in the French Courts this week.
Dr Dukan is sueing Dr Cohen another diet guri for libel. Dr Cohen made remarks about the diet in a French magazine.
rough translation: from
http://vasram.doomby.com/rubrique,regim ... 73570.html
"Dr. Cohen criticized his method in the magazine Meilleure Santé.The practitioner had stated that the Dukan diet had been in fact developed in the 50s, by a Dr. Pennington "The goal is to consume excessive protein and therefore saturated fats and trans fatty acids. This is a destruction of the diet, (I think it means that the diet is bad for eating habits, something very important to the French, but not sure!) , it causes severe health problems in some patients as a sharp rise in cholesterol , heart problems, stroke, breast cancer, "explained Jean-Michel Cohen. Asked by the reporter who it benefitted he replied: "the weight loss industry , doctors, vendors of pills, publishing, newspapers ... Everyone searches for the fantasy diet. "
At the end of last week a survey was also released in which 50% of respondents said they had regained weight lost with diet within 6 months to a year and 70% had regained it within 3-4years. The link above also has a link to the full survey,
Both Cohen's and Dukan's diets were found to have several deficiences (as did the other diets studied in an official French report recently (both for example had too much sodium, too little fibre and too little Vit C, )
It will be interesting to see what happens. Apparently the burden of proof for defamation is much lower in the French courts than in the UK. The settlements are also smaller.