Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet Book
Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., is a practicing physician, author, and weight-loss expert who conceived the idea of a diet based on a hunger-controlling cookie in the early 1970s while writing a book about natural food substances that are particularly effective at satisfying hunger. He set out to engineer a food to control hunger and enable his patients to stick to the low-calorie diet that he favors. After a number of years of experimentation, Dr. Siegal developed a formula for a particular mixture of amino acids that resulted from combining certain food substances. He baked his formula into a cookie and tried it with a few patients. Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET was an immediate success. Soon, his South Florida medical practice had expanded to include 14 clinics and he was supplying his cookies and other foods to hundreds of other doctors throughout North America.
Appearing on the Today Show with Raper was her mother, Yvonne Henderson, who admitted to being skeptical when she first learned that her daughter was following a diet based on a cookie.
“At first I thought she was insane eating cookies to lose weight. But soon I saw the weight falling off her. So after Josie lost a lot of weight I went on Dr. Siegal’s diet and sure enough, it worked. I’ve lost fifty pounds so far,” said Henderson.