Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds

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For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too.

His premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most -- not the nutritional value of the food.

The premise held up: On his "convenience store diet," he shed 27 pounds in two months.

For a class project, Haub limited himself to less than 1,800 calories a day. A man of Haub's pre-dieting size usually consumes about 2,600 calories daily. So he followed a basic principle of weight loss: He consumed significantly fewer calories than he burned.

His body mass index went from 28.8, considered overweight, to 24.9, which is normal. He now weighs 174 pounds.

But you might expect other indicators of health would have suffered. Not so.

Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.

"That's where the head scratching comes," Haub said. "What does that mean? Does that mean I'm healthier? Or does it mean how we define health from a biology standpoint, that we're missing something?"
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Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds - CNN.com

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whoa! oh em gee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is extremely interesting......did he do any exercises or anything like that?

Could explain why I lost 15 lb for the last two months :P But it was that I ate nothing but Asian food in smaller portions for the last two months. hahaha
 
This isn't that spectacular. The weight loss is in the calorie restriction. The body doesn't recognize calories as anything specific. It's just energy that the body uses or converts to fat and stored. If you restrict calories; even in the form of junk food; you will lose weight. The caveat to that is when you resume a more normal diet (by increasing calories), you will most likely regain the weight you lost.
 
sheila022 said:
whoa! oh em gee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is extremely interesting......did he do any exercises or anything like that?

Could explain why I lost 15 lb for the last two months :P But it was that I ate nothing but Asian food in smaller portions for the last two months. hahaha
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There you go. You restricted calories, and by doing so, you lost weight. Now, resume your normal caloric intake, and, tell us what happens.
 
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