HowTo: Lose 27 Pounds Eating Twinkies

What's more important in maintaining a healthy body weight? Eating healthy food or simply reducing your calorie intake?

You may think a human nutrition professor would encourage the former, but instead Kansas State University's Mark Haub proved the latter. CNN reports that Professor Haub dropped 27 pounds in just two and a half months eating junk food. For ten weeks Haub ate a Twinkie every three hours, reducing his normal calorie intake of 2,600 to 1,800.

(*Notably, the CNN article reveals halfway through that "two-thirds of Haub's total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four celery stalks.")

So does the professor recommend this "convenient store diet"?

"I'm not geared to say this is a good thing to do. 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."

Haub's Sample Day

• Espresso, Double: 6 calories; 0 grams of fat
• Hostess Twinkies Golden Sponge Cake: 150 calories; 5 grams of fat
• Centrum Advanced Formula From A To Zinc: 0 calories; 0 grams of fat
• Little Debbie Star Crunch: 150 calories; 6 grams of fat
• Hostess Twinkies Golden Sponge Cake: 150 calories; 5 grams of fat
• Diet Mountain Dew: 0 calories; 0 grams of fat
• Doritos Cool Ranch: 75 calories; 4 grams of fat
• Kellogg's Corn Pops: 220 calories; 0 grams of fat
• whole milk: 150 calories; 8 grams of fat
• baby carrots: 18 calories; 0 grams of fat
• Duncan Hines Family Style Brownie Chewy Fudge: 270 calories; 14 grams of fat
• Little Debbie Zebra Cake: 160 calories; 8 grams of fat
• Muscle Milk Protein Shake: 240 calories; 9 grams of fat

Totals:1,589 calories and 59 grams of fat

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