Cookie Diet – For Real?
The cookie diet may take the cake as the world’s worst ever fad diet. In essence this diet claims that amino acids baked into cookies can control hunger.
Fad diets are intended to help people lose a great deal of weight in a short period of time – they’re popular because they appear to be miracles. Fad diets generally include some super food, like the cookie in the cookie diet, with miraculous weight loss properties. They are usually sold by a series of wild claims, much like the old pitch men pitched in the traveling medicine shows. Crack the Fat Loss Code on the other hand stands out by promising what it claims, doing so with the use of healthy, nutrition food that actually makes sense!
The cookie diet came about as the result of research into natural foods done for a book in 1975. To maintain the cookie diet people would eat six cookies a day, plus a regular 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. By the 80′s 200 doctors were pushing 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. The diet benefited from the media efforts of all the stars who tried it to lose weight. Like the original cookie diet this Hollywood version replaced breakfast and lunch with cookies, then allowed a reasonable 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. Remember that good health comes from a balanced diet and an exercise program. Forget miracle foods even if a star tells you to try them.
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