A Few Cookies a Day to Keep the Pounds Away?
October 27th, 2009
Fad diets come and go, but every now and again you hear about one that is so absurd, it’s hard not to laugh.
Enter the sugar addict’s dream; Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet.
You read me right; for $56 a week, you get to eat six cookies a day and one ‘real’ meal that brings your total consumption for the day up to no more than 1,000 calories. Yes, if you would like to starve yourself and enjoy some delicious cookies while you do it, the Cookie Diet is what you’ve always been waiting for.
The New York Times reports that, according to Dr. Siegel, about 500,000 people have lost weight using his technique. As you might predict, business is booming, “He expects 2009 revenues to be $18 million, up from $12 million in 2008, thanks in part to endorsements from celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Clarkson.”
The problems with this “diet” are too numerous to mention in one post; however, the most glaring is that it presupposes you can have just one cookie. As I mentioned yesterday, for me, that’s simply not possible. While there are no hard numbers on the percentage of the population who are like me, if you walk down the street and look at what people are eating and how big they are, I can’t imagine it’s a small number.
I would like to know how many people have lost weight on his program and actually kept it off. Moreover, I would love to find out how many people eat all of the cookies in the first two days and end up fasting the rest of the week; that approach should help you shed the pounds quick!
Dr. Siegal is, in effect, profiting from other people’s weakness and ignorance. People should know better, so I guess he has every right to do that. Anyone naive enough to try something so ridiculous probably deserves to be out a few dollars.
I just wonder how a doctor could sleep at night as he encourages people to starve themselves for cookies and weight loss.
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