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#Nutrition Expert Loses 27 Pounds in 10 Weeks on a Twinkie Diet Professor Haub who lost 27lb teaches human nutrition at Kansas State university in the U s a professor who went on a ten-week diet based on cream cakes, snacks, sugary cereals and biscuits says he lost nearly two stone. Mark Haub said that on the convenience store diet his bad cholesterol also dropped by 20 per cent and his level of triglycerides, a form of fat, by 39 per cent. Professor Haub who lost 27lb, going from 14st 5lb to 12st 6lb teaches human nutrition at Kansas State university in the U s. He began his experiment to try to prove to his students that in weight loss pure calorie counting matters more than the nutritional value of the food. He cut his usual daily calorie intake from about 2, 600 to less than 1, 800 by eating one Twinkie deep-fried cake a mini-sponge cake with cream filling every three hours instead of meals. To add variety to the cakes, which are sold often deep-fried, he ate Doritos, Kelloggs Pops cereal and Oreo cookies, and had shot a daily double of espresso. The final third of his daily intake came in the form of a multivitamin pill and a protein shake along with some kind of vegetable such as a can of green beans. He could not say whether he considered his diet healthy or unhealthy, but talking about the sweets and snacks that he ate, he said: These foods are consumed by a lot of people. It may be an issue of portion size and moderation rather than total removal. I just think it is unrealistic to expect people to totally drop these foods for vegetables and fruits. During the ten-week diet, Mr Haubs body mass index went from 28.8, which is considered overweight, to a normal 24.9. His body fat fell from 33.4 per cent to 24.9 per cent. Before his Twinkie diet, Mr Hub considered himself a healthy eater with a diet including whole grains, fibre berries and bananas. I wish I could say the outcomes are unhealthy. I wish I could say its healthy. Im not confident enough in doing that. That frustrates a lot of people. One side says its irresponsible. It is unhealthy, but the data doesnt say that, he said. It is a great reminder for weight loss that calories count, said Dawn Jackson Blatner, a dietitian from Atlanta, Georgia. Is that the bottom line to being healthy? Thats another story. There are things we cant measure, she added, questioning how the body is affected by a lack of fruits and vegetables over the long term. How much does that affect the risk for cancer? We cant measure how diet changes our health, she told CNN. Via Daily mail Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati U

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