{"id":4919,"date":"2011-06-03T06:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T04:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:05:32","slug":"french-diet-doctors-duke-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/french-diet-doctors-duke-court\/","title":{"rendered":"French Diet Doctors Duke it Out in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular diet books = $$$, after all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The inventor of the popular Dukan Diet is defending his weight loss plan in a Paris courtroom, suing for libel against claims the diet is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pierre Dukan, the French creator of the high-protein and oat-bran diet, is suing another bestselling diet author, rival Jean-Michel Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen told French health magazine &#8220;Meilleure Sante&#8221; that Dukan&#8217;s low-carb diet is dangerous. He accused pro-Dukan doctors, pharmaceuticals and the media of &#8220;climbing on the bandwagon of this fantasy.&#8221; Cohen claims the diet can lead to long-term health problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a very dangerous diet because you have too much protein so you eat too much fat &#8230; you have no fiber and you have constipation, breast problems and also sometimes a very frequent heart disease,&#8221; Cohen said of the diet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>Who&#8217;s gonna win? I&#8217;m putting my poker chips on Dukan, as I tend to doubt that Cohen actually has any hard evidence that the Dukan diet is harmful for healthy people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular diet books = $$$, after all. The inventor of the popular Dukan Diet is defending his weight loss plan in a Paris courtroom, suing for libel against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,29],"tags":[1298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9793,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions\/9793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}