Is the Cookie Diet Another Hollywood Craze?
A Miami Doctor is offering a weight loss program that sounds almost too good to be true. It’s called The Cookie Diet, and it involves just that. Eating cookies to lose weight. But these aren’t any cookies, they’re specially formulated by the Cookie Diet’s creator, Dr. Sanford Siegal, and baked in his own bakeries. Dr. Siegal says his program helps his patients lose an average of fifteen pounds per month. The Cookie Diet works by drastically reducing the amount of calories a person takes in during the day. Instead of eating breakfast or lunch, Siegal’s patients eat six of his cookies -but not at mealtimes. Cookie Dieters only eat the appetite-suppressing cookies only to stave off hunger. The only actual meal Cookie Dieters eat is dinner, when they are permitted to eat six ounces of chicken, seafood, turkey or fish and one cup of vegetables. Siegal discourages red meats because they are high in fat, and incourages Cookie Dieters to drink a lot of liquids, at least eight servings a day in
