Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds
(CNN) -- 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.
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.
One of my favorite tidbits about Super Size Me is how they made such a big deal about McDonald’s never calling them back when they asked for certain information, and then they did the exact same thing when someone called to ask about the numbers they presented in the documentary.
Lol 30 pounds lost every month for 3 months is technically possible but is not healthy. It IS unreasonably high. Anything over 5 pounds a week should raise some pretty red flags.
Lol I remember thinking about that and being like "ok dude, if you're eating healthy your whole life McDonalds might be a little gross feeling, but it's not 'make you critically sick and dramatically fatter in a matter of weeks/months bad for you' if you're eating it normally".
You could get that fat eating Walnuts if you just keep eating them like that
The whole thing really rubbed me the wrong way. He wasn't even all that "healthy" to begin with and was with that hippie chick, so I really thought he was either playing it up or had convinced himself he was GOING to get sick. I think he mentioned he even occasionally went to McDonalds' already.
If I remember right, he threw up after eating a supersized big mac and fries. Lol.
Apparently in 2017 he admitted to sexual misconduct and a girl "believed she was raped" after sleeping with him and lost his partnership with youtube for his 2nd supersize me movie.
And the chick he was with is one of those "Detox" girls who's super into holistic medicine. Could have called that one a mile away.
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u/Holmes02 Aug 22 '19
Not a scientific study, but:
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