Cookie Diet – Another Fad?
In the world of fad diets almost nothing can be more absurd than the cookie diet. This diet is based on a mixture of amino acids baked into a cookie designed to control a patient’s hunger.
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. Most fad diets center on some super weight loss food, much like the cookie diet centers on the cookie. 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. Crack the Fat Loss Code on the other hand stands out by promising what it claims, doing so with the use of healthy, nutrition food that actually makes sense!
The cookie diet was created by a physician named Sanford Siegel in 1975 while he was researching a book on the effect of natural foods on hunger. To maintain the cookie diet people would eat six cookies a day, plus a regular dinner. All told the daily caloric intake was about 800 calories. People went wild over the cookie diet to the extent that 14 clinics opened in Florida. 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? Read this Eat Stop Eat review for more details.
Later Hollywood grabbed the cookie diet. This diet received a great deal of media attention in part because of the PR efforts of attention grabbing stars and starlets. 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. Forget miracle foods even if a star tells you to try them.
