This is my kind of diet:
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…
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.
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Nutritionists everywhere are spitting out their ice water with lemon at the thought of this…..
Surprisingly unsurprising when you think about this for awhile. You can also achieve lower weight, LDL’s triglycerides, and other nasties on Atkins. A few years back I did Atkins for 3 months, lost 25 lbs. never told my doctor and had the best check-up I’ve ever had. All indicators were great.
I would wonder what it did to his blood sugar, and why if he could restrict his diet to 1800 calories on just the snacks, why he wasn’t doing that earlier. Glucose levels actually went down, which might make sense. The carbs in bread get converted to glucose almost as easily as the sugars in twinkies.
His point is that portion control matters, and he gets attention to his work by incorporating snack foods as his primary calorie intake. He also drank a protein shake and ate a whole can of green beans per day.
The problem with his study is that people will look at the ‘twinkie-diet’ and then just add twinkies on top of what they had already been eating.