Michel Montignac

Michel Montignac (* 1944 in Angoulême, † August 22, 2010 in Annemasse ) was a French author of books on nutrition and founder of the Montignac Method, a dietary recommendation for overweight.

The emergence of the Montignac Method

Michel Montignac was - like his father too - an overweight child. After studying political science his professional career began in 1968 in the personnel office of an international pharmaceutical company, whose European Director, he was finally. In 1986 he founded the Artulen -Verlag, in which he published his books.

The detailed description of his dietary recommendations is listed in the article Montignac Method.

In the early 1980s he decided to conduct nutritional research to solve his overweight problem with the help of scientific results. He placed particular importance on doing research on metabolic diseases, nutrition in general and those that treat the diabetes. He was very surprised by Crapo ( a diabetes researcher at Stanford University in California ) published studies from the years 1976, 1977 and 1981, which showed that carbohydrates were not interchangeable. They gave evidence that at identical amount of carbohydrates increase the blood sugar level after a meal was different or very different depending on the type of carbohydrate, regardless of whether it was a simple or complex carbohydrate. Crapo therefore suggested that a composed mainly of carbohydrates diet that would induce a weak blood sugar, could have a therapeutic value in the control of blood sugar of a diabetic.

After Michel Montignac had tested his hypothesis on himself, he validated his new diet principles to 150 people. He claimed that all have lost weight.

Michel Montignac, but not diabetic was overweight, had the idea to try this diet in itself, after he had found that 85 % of diabetics are overweight. He lost in this way, without any calorie restriction, more than 15 kilos within three months. The results encouraged him to further develop his research in this direction.

He also discovered that Jenkins, a Canadian researcher, together with Crapos work to bring the blood sugar value of each carbohydrate compared with a relative standard value on a scale tried, on which the value was assigned to 100 for glucose. In this way, each has its own carbohydrate glycemic index (GI ) has been assigned.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Michel Montignac designed the first steps of his Abmagerungsmethode: he was the first person who would use the concept of GI in weight loss. He will be able to demonstrate in this way that it is possible to decrease mainly by the choice of carbohydrates while eating (as opposed to the low-calorie diets, have the limitation to basis ).

During the last ten years more than 300 scientific studies have demonstrated the importance of GI in the fight against metabolic diseases, particularly obesity confirmed. The concept of GI has become a fashionable topic in the field of Abspeckens, which led to further publications of books and articles on the subject by other authors.

Michel Montignac died on 22 August 2010 at the age of 66 years.

The dissemination of the method

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