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"  Here comes the bridal diet. The 70% of engaged women who hope to shed pounds before their weddings days, now have a new royal diet plan to follow. Kate Middelton and her mother Carole are rumored to be adherents of a four-phase high protein, low-carb regimen laid out in the book The Dukan Diet, which first built an enormous following in France, where it has sold upward of 3.5 million copies. More from Delish: 18 Low Calorie, Healthy Snacks for Brides According to the Daily Mail, after just four days on the diet, Carole Middleton claimed to have lost four pounds. The first stage, called the attack phases, is the most restrictive, with a diet limited to lean proteins and oat bran. During this stage, the royal mother of the bride is reported to have relied heavily on prawns and cottage cheese. From there, the diet expands to the cruise phase, adding vegetables; next comes consolidation when fruit and two slices of whole wheat bread are incorporated into the program. The final phase is stabilization, a lifetime of eating what you want six days a week, with a seventh day of only lean proteins. Although Buckingham Palace has denied that the bride-to-be herself has used the diet for pre-wedding weight loss, the royal connection has been enough to make Dr. Pierre Dukan&amp;#039;s diet guide a bestseller in the UK. The book was released in the US yesterday and is already purported to have a few Hollywood admirers. Jennifer Lopez and Gisele Buncheden are both rumored to have used the program to drop baby weight. More from Delish: Lady Gaga&amp;#039;s Whisky Diet and Other Strange Celebrity Weight Loss Plans However, some nutritionists and doctors are skeptical of the diet&amp;#039;s benefits. &amp;quot;This is just another one of those diets invented by a charismatic individual who makes a lot of promises and has loads of testimonials but is not based on any scientific data whatsoever,&amp;quot; Frank Sacks, professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard University&amp;#039;s School of Public Health and chairman of the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee, told the New York Times. More from Delish: Sensa Diet Crystal Craze &amp;quot;Even if you can survive it for the first few days, it&amp;#039;s hard to stick with it. It&amp;#039;s hard on your kidneys. And it&amp;#039;s expensive,&amp;quot; registered dietician and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, Sian Porter, told the Times. And there is also risk of another side effect, one that may be a deal breaker, particularly for brides-to-be. In addition to constipation and fatigue, the Dukan Diet can also cause bad breath. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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