Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET Featured in Cover Story of People Magazine ‘Half Their Size’ Double Issue

Dr. Siegal’s Direct Nutritionals, LLC, worldwide distributor of the venerable Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET(R) hunger-busting cookies and shake mixes and the operator of web site CookieDiet.com (http://www.CookieDiet.com), today announced that it is featured in the cover story of the current issue of People magazine. The story (http://tinyurl.com/ay7rt6) profiles six men and women who have lost half their weight, a total of nearly 1,000 pounds.

Among the newly-svelte participants is Josie Raper of Phoenix, Arizona, who went from 240 to just 119 lbs. by using Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET(R) foods to control her hunger and help her stick to a reduced-calorie diet.

“I’m delighted that People chose a Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet success story for its cover,” said Dr. Sanford Siegal, the Miami-based weight loss expert who created the original cookie-based weight loss program in 1975. “Josie looks wonderful, and her accomplishment should serve as an inspiration to everyone that they, too, can achieve a healthy weight.”

Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET(R) was created 34 years ago by the Cookie Doctor(TM), renowned physician, author, and weight loss expert Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., in order to control his patients’ hunger and enable them to faithfully adhere to the reduced-calorie diet that he prescribes in his South Florida medical practice, Siegal Medical Group. More than 500,000 of Dr. Siegal’s own patients, and those of 200 other physicians he has supplied, have lost weight with the help of his hunger-controlling foods.

The hunger-suppressing quality of Dr. Siegal’s cookies, shake mixes, and soup comes from his proprietary amino acid mixture that results from the blending of various protein food substances. For thirty-four years, Dr. Siegal has personally mixed every batch of his secret protein formula with his own hands in his private bakery near his Miami medical clinic. The formula is known only to Dr. Siegal and his wife who often joins him in his bakery for the three to four hour formula-mixing sessions.

Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET(R) hunger-controlling foods and nutritional supplements are available online at http://www.CookieDiet.com ; by phone 24/7 at 877-377-4342 toll-free; and from select doctors, drug stores and retailers. They’re also available at company-owned kiosks in Paradise Valley Mall and Chandler Fashion Center in Phoenix, AZ; Town Center Mall in Boca Raton, FL; Dadeland Mall in Miami, FL; The Galleria Mall in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and Cherry Hill Mall in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ. A Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET(R) store will open in Beverly Hills on January 15, 2009.

SOURCE Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET (CookieDiet.com) / PRNewswire