It has been called "Twinkie diet" of the media: Mark Haub, professor at Kansas State University's Department of Human Nutrition, surviving on junk food for the past month.
And he has lost weight.
This may seem to fly over conventional nutritional wisdom.The junk food results in weight gain, right?
Haub started "Twinkie Diet" on 25th august. Since then, he has to eat, mainly Swiss cake rolls, blueberry muffins, cinnamon rolls, Peanut Butter Oreos and hot dogs.
As well as the junk food has Haub milk (for protein) and vegetables (vitamins) with dinner.
By sticking to 1800 calories a day-about 600-800 less than he would need to maintain weight-Haub lost 10 kg in the first three weeks of his "diet".
It should come as no surprise as such. of course, you could lose weight eating two candy bars a day: it is calories-calories in verse-out of the question.
Haub is not doing this because he is a junk food addict-he admits missing salads and blue cheese; He is trying to open up the debate about how people on a low income cannot eat healthy (on the diet, his food costs have dropped to about $ 5/day):
It is unrealistic in some areas of society to expect that you can find fresh broccoli, tomatoes for a price which is affordable. If a person can obtain their nutrients from a complement and then they get their fuel from whatever is available, it means something that they do not enjoy fruits and vegetables and whole grains? Is it correct?
There is of course great nutritional questions to be asked about a broom that relies so heavily sweet, salty, processed products; Nutrition is about much more than calories. Plus, most people on a junk food diet would find himself so hungry (due to sugar crash and the lack of fiber) that you would be hard-pressed to keep to a Calorie restriction.
What do you think?, Haubs experiment an important question in a world where processed, packaged food is often much cheaper than fresh? Or is it a dangerous way to diet?
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