The controversial nutritionist Pierre Dukan praises the merits of his famous diet on the social network Tik-Tok by proclaiming himself a doctor when he was struck off by the profession.
With nearly 400,000 followers on Tik-Tok, some of his videos have been viewed over 5 million times. Le Parisien announces the fanfare return of controversial nutritionist Pierre Dukan on this social network. He praises the merits of his famous regime by proclaiming himself a doctor when he was struck off by the profession. The one who calls himself “Doc Duk” had convinced, in the 2000s, Kate Middleton, François Hollande or Jennifer Lopez to swallow a maximum of protein, fish, meat or eggs to lose weight. A method decried, from 2011, because patients quickly regain what they have lost, or even develop serious eating disorders. The octogenarian had thus been permanently removed from the College of Physicians in 2014. This does not prevent him today from displaying the title of “Engaged Nutritionist Doctor” on his account.
On TikTok, an octogenarian chained the audience boxes with his health advice. He is Pierre Dukan, former star doctor, father of a controversial diet for more than 10 years, and determined to make the new generation lose weight. Our investigation u2b07ufe0f https://t.co/E3bvz8Bp5Q
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Illegal practice of medicine
“We are in a very confusing discourse”, notes Doctor Claire Siret, president of the public health section of the National Council of the Order of Physicians. “Anything he will do in the name of this medical function will be considered an illegal practice of medicine (…) By his notoriety, he has a significant power of persuasion”, worries this doctor. The interested party defends himself from advertising his slimming capsules: “Of the fifty videos I have made, there must be maybe four or five videos that talk about my products, never with a price.”
For Jean-Philippe Zermati, co-author of “Lies, Dukan regime and balivernes” (Éd. Odile Jacob), Pierre Dukan “uses networks that perhaps affect a category of much younger people who have not experienced this wave ( of Dukan diets) and who could perhaps be seduced. It was such a disaster the first time that indeed, it would be very serious to witness a new wave of his diet.