The Cookie Diet: Plain Kooky or Just Kooky Enough?
Dr. Sanford Siegal's diet consists of eating cookies. Ed Levine, time to switch up your game. From the New York Times:
"I thought, 'That diet looks so incredibly easy,'" said Ms. Kane, 43, a legal secretary in Washington, who started paying $56 a week for the prepackaged cookies in June, when she weighed 255 pounds. Three months later, she was 40 pounds lighter. "If you can make it through the first week you're in the clear," she said
The special cookies, now available at Walgreen's and GNC, contain milk-, egg-, and meat-derived proteins along with microcrystalline cellulose, "a plant fiber that acts as a bulking agent, emulsifier and thickener." Siegal created the diet in 1975 but it's only recently that the cookies have become widely available.
Critics abound. Eating disorder activists are concerned that it's another fad diet (duh), and the American Dietetic Association calls it unbalanced and potentially short-lived.
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10 Comments:
I did some PR writing for another cookie diet. My call? It's total BS. You can't eat cookies for every meal indefinitely, especially at their high price!
KarynMC at 10:58AM on 10/22/09
oh my gosh - my ex-boss did this diet and it was a waste of time... not to mention she was a total grump the whole time she was on it! By the 3rd day she was so sick of the cookies too - they looked like cardboard :)
WhatsGabyCooking at 11:35AM on 10/22/09
"Oh! cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C...!"
love. cookie. monster. sigh.
death to the bastards who made S stand for it being a 'sometimes' food.
gastronomeg at 11:47AM on 10/22/09
If you just cut out the cookies that would be a good diet.
redfish at 11:59AM on 10/22/09
I love cookies - but eating their packaged cookies isn't going to lead to sustained weight loss. Are you really going to eat them the rest of your life?
Lisa
snacksnoop at 12:30PM on 10/22/09
Yeah this is bogus. You're going to eat weird expanding-in-stomach-cookies for the rest of your whole entire life? Or just give them up and gain it back? Do weight watchers. It works.
porkydickens at 3:29PM on 10/22/09
Down with the S and "sometimes" food.
alexisriley at 6:13PM on 10/22/09
Haven't we all read and heard the logical arguments against this kind of nonsense? The only sensible "diet" is the one you can live on for the rest of your life. Everything in moderation. A diet of cookies does not meet that requirement.
dmcavanagh at 7:02PM on 10/22/09
"meat-derived proteins"...
The sound of a "meat-derived cookie" sends shivers down my spine.
DomesticMuse at 7:46PM on 10/22/09
I object to using the word "cookie" for what resembles a piece of drywall and probably approximates its chemical composition, too.
@DomesticMuse: even bacon and maple cookies ; )
firni at 9:34PM on 10/22/09