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Do you love eating cookies and looking to lose weight? Now you can do both with Dr. Segal’s Cookie Diet, which provides you with 6 cookies a day along with one full meal, and you can lose 10 pounds a month.

The cookies are meant to be meal-substitutes and contain a blend of amino acids and food proteins.

There are critics of the cookie diets; complaining that the diet is not-lifelong, nor sustainable; that one cannot maintain such a diet and live a healthy lifestyle.

Weight-loss plans that center around a diet of below 1,000 calories do not, they say, lead to long-lasting weight loss and can result in potassium deficiency, gallstones, heart palpitations, weakened kidney function and dizziness.

Despite the criticism, the cookie diet is thriving with throes of new dieters trying it and sales going through the roof for a company like Smart for Life, who expects gross revenues of $82 million to $95 million this year.

Does the cookie diet work? Who knows, but even if you weren’t thinking of going on a diet, you might be convinced to do so now. Read the full article at the New York Times.