Do you think you could lose weight eating only sugary processed foods like Twinkies? According to nutrition professor Mark Haub from Kansas State University, you can, and you’re health might not suffer.
Haub performed a ten week experiment where he only consumed mini cakes, Dorito chips, sugary cereal and other junk food items. Occasionally he would eat vegetables, like a can of green beans, and he took a multivitamin every day.
Find out the results after the jump.
Haub’s hypothesis was simple: when it comes to weight loss, cutting calories helps more than eating healthy foods. He wasn’t happy about the results, but clearly, he believed them, because he stayed on the diet after the ten weeks to finish losing a little weight.
This finding is extraordinary, because so often people in lower income neighborhoods are not exposed to fresh fruits and vegetables, and have to make due with shopping at a convenience store.
Haub was healther and thinner than when he started, his bad cholesterol lowered, his good cholesterol raised, and reduced his level of triglycerides or bad fats. You can read more about the experiment here.
What do you think? Was this an experiment worth trying? Does it make you feel better about eating all that junk food?
My major issue with this experiment is that only one person attempted it, not multiple, and Mr. Haub completed the experiment in 10 weeks, hardly long enough to understand any long term effects of junk food on the body.
Happy Friday!
~LTG!
Tags: diet, Kansas State University, nutrition, professor, Twinkies
