The Cookie Diet - Review by a Registered Dietitian

By Ammy Silva


There are at least three companies who sell various versions of The Cookie Diet: Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet (by a physician from Miami, Florida who has been marketing this cookie program since the 1970's); The Smart For Life Cookie Diet (which boasts organic cookie ingredients, and also has both a medically supervised and a 'home' version plan) and the Hollywood Cookie Diet, so named because of all the celebrities who supposedly followed this diet. The latter has the most nutritious "cookie" ingredients which include 10% of the daily value for iron in each cookie, and 20% of the daily value for Calcium, Vitamin A, and Vitamin C.

The way the diet works is you have one "cookie" at each meal time and snack time to total four to six cookies a day (depending on your plan) for a daily calorie intake from the cookies of 500 calories. Then you balance out the day with a healthy dinner consisting of lean protein and vegetables. Your own healthy meal can have over 500 calories, and your daily intake will still be less than 1200 calories, a level at which most anyone can lose weight rather rapidly (about two pounds each week).

The idea of meal replacement dieting has been around for a long time. Some are in the form of shakes, some frozen pre-prepared dinners, some offer bars in different flavors. The diet works in several ways:

1) You are taking in a low calorie level so you burn more energy than you eat and the result is weight loss.

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3) The diet works partly because of taste fatigue--when you are presented with the same food day after day you start losing your taste and your desire to eat. This makes dieting and weight loss a little easier because if you stay on the regimen, you are a little less interested in eating.

The diet can also tempt people to stray from the plan because it becomes boring. And this, like any other diet, will only work for as long as you can stay on it!

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Vitamins C and E, magnesium, zinc, copper, manganese, and boron are also some of the nutrients Reider cited as bone helpers. Reider also shared that although relying on food for all of these nutrients is more practical, following it spells several difficulties.

First, have a breakfast bar and fresh fruit for breakfast every day (most breakfast bars are fortified with vitamins and minerals and many include a few grams of fiber).

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