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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 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. Often times, like the cookie diet, these diets rely on one miracle food with amazing properties for weight loss. In this sense they are something like the old traveling medicine shows, in which a slick talking salesman would expound on the virtues of some magical formula created by a Guru of some type. 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!

Sanford Siegel created the cookie diet in 1975 while he was doing research for a nutrition book. To maintain the cookie diet people would eat six cookies a day, plus a regular dinner. All told the daily caloric intake was about 800 calories. 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. It was at this time that shakes and soups were added to the mix, these also containing the amino acids that 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.

A new version of the cookie diet became popular with Hollywood stars as the Hollywood cookie diet. This diet received a great deal of media attention in part because of the PR efforts of attention grabbing stars and starlets. Like the original cookie diet this Hollywood version replaced breakfast and lunch with cookies, then allowed a reasonable dinner. These cookies each contain 150 calories and fiber, protein and minerals.

Don’t waste time with the cookie diet. If you want to lose weight, or maintain a healthy eating lifestyle, simply lower the amount of calories you eat from everyday foods and add some exercise. 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.