The Montignac diet is a weight-loss diet that was popular in the 1990s, mainly in Europe.

Michel Montignac, 66, French nutritionist, creator of Montignac diet.

Plowing his royalties into a host of new ventures, this 49-year-old former personnel director at Abbott Laboratories will open the second Michel Montignac diet store in the capital next month.

In the Montignac diet, a typical meal in the first stage, where the main weight loss is supposed to be accomplished, would be mushroom salad, followed by grilled steak with broccoli and then cheese.

Dr. Apfelbaum suggested that the Montignac diet, which he described as probably no worse than any other, worked essentially because its prescriptions as to which foods may not be eaten together obliged people to concentrate on what they were eating, to consume less and thus to get thin.

Michel Montignac (1944 - August 22, 2010) was a French diet developer who originally created the Montignac diet to help himself lose weight, which he based on research that focuses on the glycemic index of foods, which affects the amount of glucose delivered to the blood after eating.