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A professional nutritionist lost 27 pounds in ten weeks. His secret? Twinkies.
Well, not only Twinkies. Throw in some Little Debbie Star Crunches and Zebra Cakes, and Duncan Hines chewy fudge brownies to boot.
If the Atkins diet seemed counterintuitive (eat meat; lose weight), then Mark Haub's so-called Twinkie diet seems downright Bizarre-O with a capital "B." Haub, who works as a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University no less, set out to prove in August that when it comes to dieting, counting calories is more important than what you eat.
As CNN reports, Haub upended any notion of a balanced, healthy diet, replacing his usual meals with sugary snack cakes instead. The key, he argues, was that he dropped his daily calorie intake to 1,800 calories, as opposed to the roughly 2,600 calories that a man of his size typically consumes.
The nutty professor incorporated some vegetables into his diet as well, along with a daily multivitamin supplement and a protein shake. But a full two-thirds of his calorie consumption came from the sort of fare that you're less likely to find in legions of diet books and more likely to snag at your local 7-11.
The result: Not only did Haub shed almost 30 pounds, his "bad" LDL cholesterol dropped 20 percent while his "good" HDL cholesterol increased by 20 percent.
So should we expect to see Haub on the late-night infomercial circuit any time soon, hawking his Twinkie diet? Not likely. The good nutritionist isn't ready to go promoting his experiment as a healthy way to lose weight just yet.
"I'm not geared to say this is a good thing to do," Haub told CNN. "I'm stuck in the middle. I guess that's the frustrating part. I can't give a concrete answer. There's not enough information to do that."
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11-09-2010 @1:34PM Adam S said... BS. He reduced his calories, which reduced his overall carb intake, which reduced his insulin production, which slowed his body's ability to store fat as fatty acids and triglycerides, so his overall weight went down.
I don't think it proves calories are the sole counter, because by reducing calories, people usually reduce high-calorie foods, which is often carbs, which is the problem. If that's not the case, how do Atkins dieters, who often each thousands of calories a day, lose weight?
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11-10-2010 @11:26AM Numb said... I think you're inferring too much in this story... I don't think he's implying that calories are the SOLE key to weight loss, simply that a reduced caloric intake is what was successful this in this particular case. He even clearly states that he's not sure what to make of the experiment yet...
11-10-2010 @11:36AM Adam S said... @Numb:
> "It's a great reminder for weight loss that calories count," [said Dawn Jackson Blatner, a dietitian based in Atlanta, Georgia.]
Most real scientists agree: calories don't count. Calories eaten - energy taken in - do not necessarily correlate to the amount of triglycerides stored in tissue. It's bunk science, and as we keep mistaking the data, we continue to get fatter.
11-09-2010 @4:50PM Matt said... Atkins dieters don't eat thousands of calories per day. Try and gorge yourself on pure fat and protein, it is quite a challenge! Atkins dieters don't lose weight until they eat less calories than they burn off each day. Atkins works because fat and protein cause you to feel satisfied long before carbohydrate do (carbs actually signal your body to be even more hungry). It also has the slight advantage of the high themrogenesis of protein digestion. In other words, using protein for calories is inefficent. Energy is lost. So what might by the books be 100 cals of protein turns out only be around 80 cals.
The lack of science and nutrition understand is the primary reason this country is so obese.
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11-10-2010 @4:14PM AmyLynn said... THE CAUSE OF OBESITY IS FOOD CHEMICALS NOT FAST FOOD
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The food chemicals break the gut(insulin) and this is the cause of the diabetes and obesity crisis
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11-11-2010 @4:44PM Matt said... Blaming chemicals is just an excuse for people who don't have the control to not pork out at the drop of a hat.
11-12-2010 @6:09AM MikeNZ said... Actually, this is where a LOT of people are WRONG.
The reason why obesity happens these days, is because they are taking in FAR too many calories and not burning them off at all.
If you want to become fat, just get no exercise at all, doesn't matter what the hell you eat, excess calories (energy) are stored as fat, like it or not.
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12-24-2010 @1:18AM JLV said... In my opinion, people are more obese these days because of many reasons. It's not just chemicals or carbs or protein, or not enough exercise. Many depressed people use food as a drug. Many people eat out of bordem. And some people are genetically prone to obesity. Eating right takes time and lots of people are too busy or just too lazy to prepare healthy meals. Eating the right combination of foods and watching your caloric intake will help you lose weight. Eating Twinkies for 10 weeks and losing 27 pounds sounds like fun right? But after you go back to your regular eating habits, the weight is going to come right back.
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1-09-2011 @6:25PM G said... Is this one of the many people that just say sugar is just sugar? So it getting carbs from a yam the same as a twinkie? I think not. The yam is a complex carbohydrate, the twinkie is not. Can the twinkie be used for anything other than a quick insulin spike/fat storage? You will feel the hunger hormone ghrelin soon after a twinkie...causing you to eat more obviously. Yet a yam, will keep you satisfied longer. I think this whole study is ridiculous. Don't believe the hype. It's not hard to lose weight. Working out and watching what you eat is key here; and CONSISTENCY* is the secrete to a sexy body.
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