Dr. Pierre Dukan
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If teens get extra points for to be thin? The guru of power is now facing an ethics hearing suggesting that high school students in France will be rewarded for not being overweight.
In January, Dukan - including high protein, diet low in carbohydrates is said to be followed by celebrities like Kate Middleton - suggested that the Bachelor examination of France, a test 17 must take to complete high school and go to university, includes an anti-obesity option that students can go while remaining in a range of recommended weight, reports the BBC.
Health professionals were outraged by the comment, and now the French College of Physicians said Dukan violated medical ethics code of the country, which stipulates that "the physician must be aware of the impact of its views can have on the public. " According to college, statements Dukan could be harmful to girls who are already overweight or who are struggling with eating disorders such as anorexia.
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"All this is wrong," Dr. David Katz, director of the Research Centre for the Prevention of the University of Yale, told ABC News. "it is wrong because it invites eating disorders. It is wrong because the weight has nothing to do with academic performance ... and the idea that weight is a behavior that should incentive is simply wrong. The weight is a result. We should be encouraging things people can control. "
In a second complaint, the College of physicans accuse Dukan prioritize moneymaking on medicine, violating another of its code of ethics, which states that the medicine can not be practiced as a business. Dukan has sold over seven million copies of his diet books, which were translated into many languages and have created a website providing paid for weight loss programs.
This is not the first time controversy Dukan met or fell under suspicion. last year, Dukan lost a libel suit against compatriot nutritionist Dr. Jean-Michel Cohen, who described the Dukan diet as dangerous, saying that only "industry emaciation, doctors, pill salesmen, publishers and newspapers "has benefited the Guardian reports.
If convicted, the BBC reports that Dr. Dukan could be withdrawn from the French medical register. The hearing will be held within the next six months.
"I think the Dukan diet is a discredited Atkins diet with a French accent," said Katz.
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