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This diet can help you lose weight up to six kg in one month

There is another type of diet is a new trend among Hollywood celebrities. This new diet, reportedly can help you lose weight by six pounds in one month period.

Diet is known as the Dukan diet, and performed by supermodel Giselle Bundchen and Jennifer Lopez. Dukan diet was developed by a French nutritionist, Dr. Pierre Dukan.

Dukan diet is a a type of diet high in protein, low in calories and also reduce appetite. This is so that the absorption of protein in the body which leads to a high caloric expenditure and allow weight loss without losing muscle strength. The program also helps maintain weight, and do not come back if the added fat diet changed.

If you are interested in doing so, you can try it. This is how the Dukan diet consists of four phases, as quoted from Sofeminine.co.uk.

1. Phase vegetables 
In this phase, only the vegetables that should be added to the protein intake gradually. Vegetables should be consumed too starchy like potatoes, sweet corn, avocados, lentils, green beans, or peas. Perform these two phases to achieve the target weight (1 kilogram decrease in the maximum period of one week).

2. Phase pure protein 
In this phase, you should only eat protein. Either meat, fish, eggs, seafood and nonfat dairy products. Do it for 3 to 10 days depending on your weight loss targets.

3. Consolidation phase 
Come back to normal eating habits, but do it slowly and gradually, to avoid the return of body weight. Perform this phase for 10 days. Make sure the weight is stable and does not go up or down.

4. Stabilization phase 
You eat as usual, but there are two rules that must be obeyed. That is, one day a week, you just eat pure protein. Then, every day consumption of three tablespoons of wheat or rice bran.

The advantages of this diet is a fast weight loss and control. Then, forming a stable eating habits for a long time. This diet also gives you the opportunity to 'free' to eat cake or other favorite snacks for two days.

However, there are also drawbacks. Because this diet is very high in protein, especially in the first phase, you may experience constipation. Because the body only gets protein intake, then you could be deficient in vitamin and minerals. Consume vitamin supplements to overcome.