Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts.
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.
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.
OK now I did hear about this yesterday on the radio and frankly I think it is twisted. Yes you can loose weight from eating nothing but twinkies, but then again you could have done the same thing eating carrots. The problem is twinkies have NO and I mean NO nutritional value in them. So you mean to tell me that just because this dude lost weight that this is a healthy way to loose weight? NO! It isn't. It is a stupid way to loose weight, and you are doing more harm then good if you follow this dude's example.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the point of this was to prove this was a healthy way to loose weight... the point is that all these miracle diets that say you can eat as much as you want as long as you eat X or don't eat Y that seem to be so popular now are bunk... it all comes down to calories. His point is that no matter what you eat or don't eat, as long as you're taking in less calories than you burn you loose weight, and if you take in more calories you'll gain weight.
ReplyDeleteJason, I do agree with you, but the second comment is correct. It wasn't about it being a healthy diet, simply about showing how you can lose weight simply by cutting calories.
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