Sun 11 Jul 2010
3 Products reviewed – Diet cookies an effective weight loss option!
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Diet cookie review:
Diet cookies weight loss programs are very flexible and are all the rage these days. If your goal is to lose weight, they will control your hunger and help you stick to almost any reduced-calorie diet. If you’re already at your goal weight, use these foods as healthier alternatives to snack foods that are higher in fat, calories and carbohydrates. Are they all created equal?
Losing weight is nobody’s idea of fun even under the best of circumstances. It takes discipline and determination to achieve your goal. Weight loss is always the result of adhering to a reduced-calorie diet that was made possible with the use of a diet cookie.
When used in conjunction with diet shakes they provide a great variety of options to help keep you on your plan. The question we need to ask is which cookie provides the best value for the general consumer? We have taken 3 cookies and analyzed them for quality, effectiveness at controlling hunger and price. Our recommendations follow these reviews.
The COOKIE DIET
These famous cookies were created by Dr. Siegal in 1975 to control your hunger and help you stick to your diet. Each Weekly Box contains 7 Daily Bags of 6 cookies each and replaces 14 meals at a cost of about $4.28 per replaced meal when used as suggested. Flavours: Oatmeal Raisin, Chocolate, Blueberry, Banana and Coconut.
- CONTAINS: Milk, Eggs, Soy, Wheat and Non-Vegetable Protein
- Each Cookie is 20 grams in size.
- Not individually wrapped – 6 in a bag.
- $59.95 per 1 week supply.
- As compared to the other 2 cookies: 5 grams of fat, 160 calories, 4 grams of fibre and 5 grams of protein for 40 grams of cookies
Vitamark’s Appetizer Diet Cookie
The Cookie That’s More Than A Cookie - Bite into an Appetizer Diet Cookie from Vitamark and the first thing you notice, not surprisingly, is that the taste is delicious.
The Appetizer Diet Cookie provides all the nutritional support, energy and fullness of traditional ‘sports bars’ with the added benefit of more fibre—which is an essential to weight management, well being, and overall good health. The Appetizer Diet Cookie contains both soluble and insoluble fibre.
Selected Benefits of the Appetizer Diet® Cookie:
- Convenient Individually wrapped
- Nutritionally Balanced with no cholesterol or trans fats
- Fiber Benefits (elimination and colon health)
- Benefits of both soy and whey Protein
- Natural goodness of honey, oats and dates
- Provides 13 grams of “net carbohydrates”
- Each cookie is 40 grams
- Only 120 calories 4 grams of fat, 5 grams of protein and 8 Grams of fibre
- Natural, chemical free, mineralized, organic pure Brazilian cane sugar
- 30%-35% of 14 vitamins/minerals
- $1.50 per cookie serving – 30 cookie per box at $44.95
- Special sample box of 12 cookies for $19.95 provides a low cost option to test the product.
Why A High Fiber Cookie?
The Appetizer Diet by Vitamark incorporates a high fibre cookie for excellent reasons. In addition to the various boosts fibre offers, including proper elimination, bowel cleansing and circulatory benefit, research shows that fibre-rich carbohydrate sources may foster cholesterol within the normal ranges.
According to the American Medical Association (AMA), the National Cancer Institute and other organizations, a fibre rich diet offers a variety of benefits.
According to the American Heart Association’s Nutrition Committee—reported in a statement titled “The Heath care Professional”—studies show that LDL cholesterol was impacted by between 10% and 15% with oat and/or psyllium fibre.
The Hollywood Diet cookie
The Hollywood Cookie Diet works by satisfying your hunger and your sweet tooth. Simply eat up to four cookies a day, replacing breakfast and lunch, and eat a sensible dinner. Eat a cookie for breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch and mid-afternoon snack. The Hollywood Cookie Diet works because it is a low calorie diet based on caloric restriction by meal replacement and portion control.
Each cookie is 48 grams and is individually wrapped for eating on-the-go. Each cookie is also a good source of fibre at 3 grams and protein at 5 grams. Total fat is 4 grams and calories of 150.
Use The Hollywood Cookie Diet for as long as you want until you achieve your weight loss goals. You can also use the The Hollywood Cookie Diet as a maintenance program. Always keep a cookie in your car, in your office, or anywhere you get hungry, so you can enjoy a satisfying treat and not gain weight.
- $1.50 per cookie
- $59.97 per order of 4 boxes
- Single order of 12 cookies for $19.99 provides a low cost way of testing the product.
Conclusion:
The results of this review were very close based upon prices, quality and effectiveness of the cookies to assist in weight loss. The Hollywood cookies and Vitamark’s Appetizer Diet Cookies were the lowers priced of the 3 by a sizable percentage. The ability to purchase a sample of 12 cookies from these two sources was also appealing.
The flavours of the cookie diet were very interesting and provided a very good variety to the end customer. These cookies were much smaller at 20 grams versus 40 but the fact that they were not individually wrapped did cause us concern.
The deciding factor that appears to set one cookie above the others is the amount of dietary fibre included in Vitamark’s Appetizer Diet Cookies compared to the other two cookies reviewed. To have both soluble and insoluble fibre in these cookies at 8 grams per cookie really sets this cookie apart from the rest.
The Appetizer Diet Cookie is the overall best option for anyone interested in using diet cookies as part of their weight management program. In addition to the cookies, the Appetizer brand by Vitamark International also has shakes to improve the variety and flexibility of their diet program.
