Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet Book Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and In...( MCLEAN Va. Aug. 17 ...),Health

MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet Book (How a Doctor and His Cookie Helped 500,000 People Lose Weight Fast (2009, Hyde Park Publishing Ltd., 320 pages, ISBN 978-0-9822728-3-19999), is now available online at CookieDiet.com, Amazon.com, Borders.com, and BN.com; at Barnes & Noble stores in the United States; and throughout Canada at Indigo, Chapters, World's Biggest Bookstore, and Coles.

"Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet Book is a departure from my earlier ones which were conventional diet books," said Dr. Siegal. "With Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet book, I hope to entertain and educate all readers, whether or not they intend to follow my weight-loss program. Therefore, while it is still a diet book in that it gives specific instructions that have helped an awful lot of people lose weight, there's much more to it. Even readers who aren't on a diet should be amused by the extensive history of diets from centuries passed, and enlightened by the debunking of some of the ivory tower nutritional nonsense that has made 65 percent of us overweight."

Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet Book is divided into five sections. In Section One, Dr. Siegal establishes his credibility before asking the reader to "make a leap of faith" and follow his admittedly unusual-sounding weight-loss plan. He reveals and accepts the tendency for some to "summarily dismiss" Dr. Siegal's COOKIE DIET(R) based solely on its eminently catchy, even gimmicky name. He acknowledges the need to explain the basis for his diet before asking the reader to "trust [me] when I tell you that [you'll] lose weight by eating cookies all day." In the chapter entitled "500,000 Anecdotes," Dr. Siegal reveals the omnipresence of "anecdotal evidence" in every practicing physician's work, and he explains how his own observations of more than a half million overweight patients support his approach to weight loss.