Cookie Diet – Review

In the world of fad diets almost nothing can be more absurd than the cookie diet. The diet relies on eating cookies to control hunger and thus help people lose weight.

Fad diets are intended to help people lose a great deal of weight in a short period of time – they’re popular because they appear to be miracles. Often times, like the cookie diet, these diets rely on one miracle food with amazing properties for weight loss. In this sense they are something like the old traveling medicine shows, in which a slick talking salesman would expound on the virtues of some magical formula created by a Guru of some type. Check out this Crack the Fat Loss Code review, where you will learn about a diet program that claims outrageous results, but sticks to its word!

Sanford Siegel created the cookie diet in 1975 while he was doing research for a nutrition book. To maintain the cookie diet people would eat six cookies a day, plus a regular dinner. People on the diet ate only 800 calories a day. Very quickly the cookie diet became a huge success, with 14 clinics in Florida and 10 in Latin America expounding this amazing weight loss formula. In the middle 1980s over 200 doctors were prescribing Dr. Siegel’s cookie diet in their own practices. The diet was quickly expanded to miracle soups and shakes that also contained the amino acids. If you are willing to lower your calorie intake to such an extreme, why not just go on an intermittent fast for 24 hours? This type of fasting is explained in great detail in the book Eat Stop Eat.

Later Hollywood grabbed the cookie diet. The diet benefited from the media efforts of all the stars who tried it to lose weight. This diet is similar to the original in that it consists of a cookie for breakfast, a cookie as a snack in the morning, a cookie for lunch, a cookie as a mid-afternoon snack, and then a reasonable dinner. The four cookies allowed on this diet consisted of a combined 600 calories and various vitamins.

If you’re thinking of the cookie diet take Donnie Brasco’s advice – forget about it. Remember that good health comes from a balanced diet and an exercise program. Even if the star of your favorite movie claims to love them, avoid so called miracle weight loss foods.