Eat Twinkies Lose Weight = Bogus Hype

Bhaktajan II

Hare Krishna Yogi
Messages
2,277
Reaction score
115
Points
63
This is so bogus!
1.800 calories/day!!
2.600 calories/day = 1 lb = 0.453592 kilograms = 365 lbs/year = 165 k/year.

Any diet of 1.800 calorie/day would have yielded the weight lose cited in the article.

This professor will have to now scramble to return his blood stream to a normal pH.

We must follow up on the status of this foolhardy research ---to see if this professor later dies of kidney failure or the equivilant.

Heroin & cocain will also cause a person to loss weight.

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Eat Twinkies Lose Weight One Mans Wacky Diet that Worked ...
11-9-10

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."

Read more:
http://www.slashfood.com/2010/11/09/eat-twinkies-lose-weight-one-mans-wacky-diet-that-worked/#ixzz14zkMRwH1
 
Will you repose your deep affections by perusing this biography of Twinkie's faux cake-hood?:

Welcome

"
A pop-science journey into the surprising ingredients found in dozens of common processed foods,

using the Twinkie label as a guide



Like most Americans, Steve Ettlinger eats processed foods. And, like most consumers, he often reads the ingredients label—without a clue as to what most of it means. So, when his young daughter asked, “Daddy, what’s polysorbate 60?” while eating ice cream bars at the beach on a hot summer day, he was at a loss—and determined to find out.



In this fascinating exploration into the curious world of packaged foods, Twinkie, Deconstructed takes us from phosphate mines in Idaho to corn fields in Iowa, from gypsum mines in Oklahoma to oil fields in China, to demystify some of America’s most common processed food ingredients—where they come from, how they are made, how they are used—and why. Beginning at the source (hint: they’re often more closely linked to rocks and petroleum than any of the four food groups), Ettlinger reveals how each Twinkie ingredient goes through the process of being crushed, baked, fermented, refined, and/or reacted into a totally unrecognizable goo or powder with a strange name—all for the sake of creating a simple snack cake."
 
Back
Top