Cookie Diet - Fad or Real?

The cookie diet may take the cake as the world’s worst ever fad diet. The diet relies on eating cookies to control hunger and thus help people lose weight.

Fad diets seem to be everywhere these days. In general a fad diet is a diet which is designed to last for short periods of time, during which large amounts of weight can supposedly be lost. Often times, like the cookie diet, these diets rely on one miracle food with amazing properties for weight loss. They are usually sold by a series of wild claims, much like the old pitch men pitched in the traveling medicine shows. Check out this Crack the Fat Loss Code review, where you will learn about a diet program that claims outrageous results, but sticks to its word!

The cookie diet came about as the result of research into natural foods done for a book in 1975. This cookie diet consisted of patients eating six cookies each day in place of meals, then eating a reasonable dinner. People on the diet ate only 800 calories a day. People went wild over the cookie diet to the extent that 14 clinics opened in Florida. It wasn’t long before over 200 doctors were regularly recommending the cookie diet. The clever doctor came out with soups and shakes that also contained the amino acids needed to control hunger. If you are willing to lower your calorie intake to such an extreme, why not just go on an intermittent fast for 24 hours? Read this Eat Stop Eat review for more details.

Later Hollywood grabbed the cookie diet. This diet received a great deal of media attention in part because of the PR efforts of attention grabbing stars and starlets. This newer version of the diet included four cookies and a dinner. The four cookies allowed on this diet consisted of a combined 600 calories and various vitamins.

If you’re thinking of the cookie diet take Donnie Brasco’s advice – forget about it. Eat less, exercise more – that’s the formula for good health. In general this is a much healthier way to lose or maintain weight than relying on some fly by night miracle food, even if it is endorsed by someone you recognize from a movie.