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Created by Dr. Pierre Dukan, it is split into 4 phases:
Phase 1: Attack- 1 to 10 days of eating only meat and oat bran. Phase 2: Cruise- brings in veggies.. but no fruit. Phase 3: Consolidation- adds fruit and gives you one cheat meal a week. Phase 4: Stabilization.- six days a week of sensible eating, and one 'attack' day, eating only protein.
Ronni Litz Julien, a nutritionist, likes the way the diet uses oat bran. but she says other parts are tough to chew.
"It does talk about eating 100 foods as much as you want, but we don't really want to learn that, said Julien. "The focus is eating when your hungry and stopping when you're not."
The 17 Day Diet was created by Dr. Michael Moreno.
Books sales took off after he was featured on a few medical talk shows.
This diet also goes through different cycles, like the accelerate cycle, which involves eating less carbohydrates. The activate phase starts something called "carb cycling," which is said to reset your metabolism.
Source: Local 10