The inventor of a highly successful diet that allowed you to lose weight while enjoying many of the good things in life, Michel Montignac was a prolific and lucid author who supported his claims with scientific evidence.
Michel Montignac was born in Angoulême in southwestern France in 1944. Like his father and many of his male relatives, he was prone to weight gain, and, by his own admission, he was obese by the age of 8. He studied human sciences at university and worked initially for the Centre for Social Research in the US. In his twenties he was the European director of Abbott Laboratories, an American pharmaceutical company, and worrying about his expanding waistline when he struck on the basis for what was to