What is Cookie Diet?
How true that eating cookies can help you to lose weight?
Not just any cookies, though — cookies sold through Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet, which has been claiming cookie-induced weight loss since 1975.
So, what is so special about Dr. Sanford Siegal’s cookies?
Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet Blueberry Cookies
Actually, Dr. Sanford Siegal’s cookies come in familiar flavors such as oatmeal raisin, chocolate and coconut. They are soft, and the oatmeal raisin ones tasted authentic, with a lingering, bitter aftertaste.
Dr Siegal, who resides in Florida, explains in his book Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet Book there are more to these cookies than meets the eye.
“My cookie, although it looks, smells, and tastes like a cookie, is a lot like meat. It contains a variety of proteins derived from meats.” Dr Siegal writes.
These proteins are meant to stave hunger, allowing weight loss by eating six of the 90 calorie cookies a day as well as a 500- to 700-calorie dinner. This is based on an anecdotal evidence from more than 500,000 patients to prove that his diet works.
In the short term, most people will lose weight on the cookie diet because they are ingesting fewer calories, said Kate Kinne, a registered dietitian who works at Galter Life Center, 5157 N. Francisco.
But Kinne said clients who have tried these types of diets struggle to stay on them for a sustained period of time.
“It’s not really teaching you anything you can build on for the rest of your life,” she said. “A good diet is based on getting a variety — whole grains, fruits and vegetables, lean proteins. You’re not going to learn anything from eating one cookie or one cabbage soup.”
