A French official says French diet guru Michel Montignac, whose "glycemic index" weight-loss books sold millions of copies, has died.
The official at the City Hall of Annemasse, in eastern France, said Michel Montignac died on Sunday at a clinic there.
Michel Montignac, author of worldwide bestsellers on weight loss in the 1980s and 1990s, has died at age 66, French officials said yesterday.
Michel Montignac, who died last weekend, developed a crash diet based on never eating "bad" carbohydrates at the same time as fats.
"Bad" high-GI carbs should not be taken together with fats, as "Michel Montignac" believed these combinations would lead to fats in the food being stored as body fat.
Michel Montignac was a controversial figure, not least of all in Quebec, where his French-language books were frequent bestsellers.
As far back as 1998, the order advised against the Montignac diet, saying people lose weight by cutting back on calories, not by drinking red wine and consuming unlimited amounts of food like Michel Montignac prescribed.
The study showed that 12 overweight people lost weight after following the Michel Montignac diet for six days.
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