Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Twinkie nutrition: weight loss and junk food eating?

Eating cake - on a diet?

He was nicknamed "the Twinkie regime" by the media: Mark Haub, a professor in Kansas State University Department of Human Nutrition, has been surviving on junk food to last month.

And he has lost weight.

This may seem to fly in the face of nutritional wisdom.After all, results of junk food in weight gain, right?

Haub started the "Twinkie" diet 25 août.Depuis, it ate mainly rolls of cake, blueberry muffins, rolls of cinnamon and Oreos peanut butter hot dog.

Along with the junk food, Haub has milk (for protein) and vegetables (vitamins) with dinner.

By sticking to 1,800 calories per day – approximately 600 to 800 should maintain weight - Haub less lost 10 kg in the first three weeks of its "food".

It shouldn't come as a surprise.Après all, you may lose weight eating two candy bars a day: calories - calories verses - what question is.

Haub is not because it is a junk food - addict he admits missing salad and cheese bleu.Il attempts to open the debate on how people on a low income cannot eating (on diet, its fresh foods have dropped to $ 5 a day round):

It is unrealistic in some areas of the company to expect that you will find fresh broccoli, tomatoes, priced abordable.Si someone can obtain their nutrients from a supplement and then receive their fuel of everything that is available, it important that they not get fruits and vegetables and whole grains? you accept?

Of course, there are major nutritional questions to be posed to a regime that relies so heavily on products processed sweet salées.La nutrition is more than just the calories.De more, junk food diet would be most people are so hungry (due to failures of sugar and the lack of fiber) that they would be hard to stick to a restriction of calories.

What do you think? is the Haub one experience in a world where food is processed, packaged are often much cheaper than fresh? or is it a dangerous way to diet?

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