Dukan Diet for People with Diabetes

	By: Editors at DiabetesIQ	\|	Published: February 25, 2022	This DiabetesIQ content is fact-checked and expert-reviewed to ensure strict editorial guidelines. Our content is evidence-based and provides objective analysis while maintaining the highest editorial standards in accordance with our integrity policy.
Published: February 25, 2022
This DiabetesIQ content is fact-checked and expert-reviewed to ensure strict editorial guidelines. Our content is evidence-based and provides objective analysis while maintaining the highest editorial standards in accordance with our integrity policy.

It’s widely known that one of the key components of successful diabetes management is located in the kitchen. Since pancreas of people with diabetes is unable to properly process carbohydrates, diabetic patients always have to keep an eye on the amount of carbs they consume to avoid blood sugar spikes, which are very dangerous both short and long term.

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Managing blood sugar levels is not the only concern of people with diabetes. Being overweight is another problem that haunts diabetic patients, causing serious complications over time. So, if you suffer from obesity or overweight, it’s in your best interest to improve the situation as quickly as possible. In other words, if losing weight is your goal, you need to choose the right diet to do the job.

Once you face all the variety of different diets out there, you naturally look for the option that will slim you down quickly. However, it’s really hard to lose a lot of weight fast and even harder to maintain the achieved results. The Dukan diet claims to be up to the task, promising weight loss of 7 to 10 pounds in the first five days. Not surprisingly, over the years, the Dukan diet has become very popular among people with diabetes.

So, what is a Dukan diet? The diet took its name from the person who created it – Dr. Pierre Dukan, who is a French medical doctor specializing in weight management. The inspiration came from one of his obese patients who claimed that to lose weight he could say goodbye to any kind of food except meat.

The doctor developed a diet that is based on foods high in protein and very low on carbs, significantly limiting consumption of all fruit, starchy vegetables, whole grains, and legumes, including peas, beans, lentils, peanuts, and soy, while putting an emphasis on such foods as red meats, poultry, fish, and low-fat dairy products. In particular, if you are on Dukan diet, you may enjoy the following foods: lean beef and ham, veal, rabbit, turkey, chicken breast and liver, fish and seafood, skimmed milk, low-fat cottage cheese, fat-free yogurt, tofu, oat bran, egg whites, green vegetables, herbs and spices, tea, coffee, and diet soda.

But it’s more to Dukan diet than just food selection. The diet incorporates five stages, during each of which you have to eat only certain foods for specific number of days.

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Although the diet does work for many people, it’s not suitable for everyone, particularly for people with kidney disease, eating disorder, gout, and high cholesterol. That’s why you should talk to your doctor and dietitian before committing to this diet. If you get a green light from your diabetes care team, Dukan diet certainly worth trying. Here we would like to share with you a few dishes that are suitable for Dukan diet.