Montignac diet :

The Montignac diet is a weight-loss diet that was popular in the 1990s, mainly in Europe. It was invented by Michel Montignac . The diet categorizes food into four classes: carbohydrates , lipids (fats and meat), carbohydrate-lipid (nuts and organ meats), and fibers (vegetables and whole grains). Carbohydrate-rich foods are classified according to glycemic index (GI), a measure for how rapidly the food is digested. High-GI carbohydrates are considered bad. "Bad carbohydrates", such as those in potatoes, pasta, rice, and white bread, may not be taken together with "lipids". According to Montignac's theory, these combinations will lead to the fats in the food being stored as body fat.

Montignac's theory is disputed by nutrition experts, who claim that any calorie intake that exceeds the amount that the body needs will be converted into body fat. Despite these scientific doubts, there are other serious scientific studies which endorse this method (See British Journal of Nutrition article in external links). Montignac sold 15 million books about his diet.

External links

• Official Montignac website
• Official Montignac website
• Effect of a low-glycaemic index???low-fat???high protein diet on the atherogenic metabolic risk profile of abdominally obese men. Source: British Journal of Nutrition, Volume 86, Number 5, November 2001, pp. 557-568(12)

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