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Donald Trump and Golden Double Stuf Oreo, Photo: Joseph Rosen

Donald Trump, the real-estate mogul renowned for his marriages and his involvement with a variety of pageants beginning with Miss, likes his Oreos ... especially when they dance.

We found the Donald last week at Trump Tower with a dancing Golden Double Stuf Oreo mascot. "The Apprentice" host was there to announce his intent to "purchase" the Oreo Double Stuf Racing League (DSRL), a faux league where family and friends race to see who can finish an Oreo cookie and single glass of milk the fastest.

"I only do products that I really like, and this product I really like," Trump said. "I started by loving Oreos and now I ended by doing a commercial for the people who made Oreos."

As we head into the holiday season, aka the Season of the Endless Buffets, portion control sticks in the back of any health-conscious or body-conscious mind. You know, at least while that mind is sober.

How are your portion control skills? Check them here on WomensHealthMag.com in a test where you are presented with pictures of two separate servings of pretzels and you have to guess which one you think is the 100 calorie serving. Sound tough? It is!

I got it wrong. Whatever, I just ate a pint of Ben & Jerry's. That's about 100 calories, right?

Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to declare that all those 100 calorie packs totally bite, except maybe the Wheat Thins. They taste like the cereal version of whatever they're supposed to be. When I want Oreos, I don't want 100 calories worth of hexagonal Oreo-inspired crisps.

Everyone knows the secret of a good diet is to go ahead and eat what you crave, just don't eat too much of it. My entire pint of Ben & Jerry's? Well, I guess I'm not on a good diet today. Blame the economy. I don't know why, just do it.

Back in January we told you about the disappearance of Hydrox Cookies, loved by many but apparently not enough. But fans of the cream-filled cookies take note: they're coming back!

Kellogg is bringing back the cookies in their original recipe, with one big difference: no more trans fats! The cookies will start showing up on store shelves this summer. It's part of the company's way of saying thank you to the hardcore Hydrox fans who wanted the cookies to make a comeback (it's a limited edition, but I'm sure they'll be back for good, right?).

I'm going to get a bag of them and do a taste test with Oreos and settle this "which cookie is better" question once and for all.

Are you an Oreo person or a Hydrox person? I guess I should change that to "were" because the Hydrox cookie is no more.

Now, this might not be news to everyone, since it happened in 2003! But Kellogg's was so low-key about it that a lot of people simply didn't realize it (besides hardcore Hydrox fans, of course). The Wall Street Journal investigated and found out that it was discontinued five years ago after the company realized they couldn't compete with Oreos. The interesting thing is that several people still say they see them once in a while, in stores and on airplanes.

I have to admit that I'm an Oreo person, and I think the reason why I never bought Hydrox was because I just thought they were a knockoff and tasted like Oreos. Now I wish they'd come back so I can try them again. Supposedly the cream in the middle was less sweet?

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I love Oreos. They're one of the great classic cookies of all-time. But I still don't understand this list.

Schneider Associates, along with comScore, IRI, and New Product magazine, asked 1000 people around the country what they thought the most memorable product launches of 2007 were. Some of the products on the list are obvious (the iPhone is #1, of course), but a couple of the food-related items didn't thrill me. They're both Oreo cookie-related: the Domino's Oreo Pizza and the Oreo Cakesters.

Really? The Oreo Pizza??