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kgb_ Special Agents are tireless and relentless in their search for the answers to America’s questions.  And what does America want to know, you ask?  Well, today’s buzz centers on America’s preoccupation with losing weight:

What’s the cookie diet?

Know more:

Not Medical Advice: From the Grapefruit Diet to Atkins, there seems to be a diet for everyone.  Welcome Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet.

The Cookie Diet consists of eating six prepackaged cookies a day.  Oh yeah, you get one real meal too, something like skinned chicken and vegetables, steamed.

According to Dr. Sanford Siegal himself, an estimated 500,000 people have lost weight on the diet.  The cookies cost $56.00 a week. The philosophy:  Eat cookies and lose up to 10 pounds a week.

Critics complain that the cookies have questionable nutritional value and people lose weight because they’re consuming only 800 to 1,000 calories a day. They say the severe calorie restriction is unhealthy.

Dr. Siegal created the diet in 1975 but for decades limited the sale of the cookies to patients in his own medical practice in Miami as well as other doctors he supplied.

The popularity expanded in 2006 when CookieDiet.com was launched and the cookies were sold at Walgreens and GNC.  There’s even a Cookie Diet store in Beverly Hills and endorsements from Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Clarkson.

Copycat cookie diets have popped on the scene including Smart for Life, the Hollywood Cookie Diet and Soypal Cookies.  (Soypal is touted as the most popular diet in Japan.)

While its makers report the Cookie Diet cookies are nutritionally sound, a seven-day supply of multivitamins are included in each weekly package just to be on the safe side.

“I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.”  ~Debbi Fields

Mike & Juliet Investigate: The Cookie Diet

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Source:   A Few Cookies a Day to Keep the Pounds Away?

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