Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds
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.
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It's pretty clear from looking at examples that for *pure weight loss* all that matters is calorie intake.
ReplyDeleteBut as for *health*, which is different, then then nutritional value of food is obviously very (more?) important.
It may be true that weight loss is faster with a combination of the two, because it optimizes your bodily function.
(You may also be interested in the CRON diet, perhaps.)
Yeah, I generally try to maximize nutrition for the calories I eat when restricting, it helps me feel better about the things that I eat. (I googled info about the CRON diet and it seemed fairly similar to what I've been doing on my good days.)
ReplyDeleteAnd anyway, if I was on some sort of Twinkie diet, I would just end up binging constantly so it wouldn't work.