New York Jets Defensive Tackle Kris Jenkins Teams with Celebrity Weight-Loss Expert Dr. Sanford Siegal in Hopes of Winning Head Coach Rex Ryan's Weight-Loss Challenge

NEW YORK, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- To help him win a weight-loss competition proposed by head coach Rex Ryan, New York Jets defensive tackle Kris Jenkins has recruited renowned physician, author, and weight-loss expert Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., best known as the creator of the popular Dr. Siegal's COOKIE DIET® weight-loss brand. Recently, Coach Ryan challenged Jenkins and teammate Damien Woody to join him in a three-man competition to see who can lose the most weight before the start of the Jets training camp. Although the losers of the contest have agreed to make a generous donation to the winner's charity, Jenkins has even more at stake: the Jets reportedly want the anchor of their defense to be at 360 pounds so he can maximize his quickness and continue to dominate the line of scrimmage.

Jenkins, a four-time NFL Pro Bowl athlete, weighed in at 390 pounds at the start of the competition. He's now at 368 pounds, just eight pounds from his goal.

After considering a variety of diet plans, Jenkins decided to visit Dr. Sanford Siegal, a South Florida physician who has achieved international fame as the creator of a weight-loss system that uses his proprietary cookies and other foods to satisfy hunger and enable one to stick to a reduced-calorie diet.

"With such a hectic schedule, I knew I wouldn't have time for a complicated diet plan. I needed something that's convenient and that works fast," said Jenkins. "I found CookieDiet.com and read about Dr. Siegal's approach. After watching some of the news stories posted there, I decided to see him at his clinic in Miami."

To reach his goal weight, Jenkins will continue to exercise, eat healthy, and use Dr. Siegal's COOKIE DIET® weight-loss system under the personal supervision of Dr. Siegal.

Jenkins is one of a growing number of celebrities who have used Dr. Siegal's COOKIE DIET® to shed pounds. Earlier this week, reality TV star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi revealed that she successfully used Dr. Siegal's cookies to reach her goal to lose ten pounds in time to enjoy this summer at the Jersey Shore.

"There's no magic to weight loss. It's simply a matter of burning more calories than you consume. Unfortunately, that's a lot easier said than done because of hunger. Hunger wrecks diets," said Dr. Siegal. "Like my 500,000 patients before him, Kris Jenkins is following a reduced-calorie diet and using my cookie to keep his hunger in check. I'm confident he'll win the competition and, more importantly, reach a healthful weight."

Dr. Siegal's COOKIE DIET® is continuously in the news. Recent profiles include:

ABC's Good Morning America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fuI9yzx4o

WFAA-TV Dallas

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/64574632.html

KNBC-TV Los Angeles

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/station/as-seen-on/Cookie_Diet_Los_Angeles.html

ABOUT SANFORD SIEGAL, D.O., M.D.

Dr. Sanford Siegal 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 engineered 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.

Since 1975, Dr. Siegal's medical practice, Siegal Medical Group, has treated more than 500,000 overweight patients with Dr. Siegal's COOKIE DIET®.

In 2007, Dr. Siegal began offering his cookies, shake mixes, and other products through www.CookieDiet.com (which has more than 125,000 members) and retail stores including Walgreens and GNC.

Dr. Siegal is the author of numerous books on subjects ranging from the role of fiber in diets, hypothyroidism, and hunger control. His latest book, 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 available at Amazon.com, BN.com, Barnes & Noble stores, and Walgreens.com.

SOURCE Dr. Siegal's COOKIE DIET (CookieDiet.com)