Nutrition professor loses weight on Twinkie diet

[DainBramaged]

nutrition expert has taken a very unorthodox path towards weight loss and cholesterol reduction: he's on an all-junk food diet.

And so far the diet consisting of Hostess Twinkies, sugary sweet cereal and Little Debbie cakes -- mixed in with a few low-calorie veggies for dinner -- appears to be working.

Mark Haub, a professor of nutrition at Kansas State University, has lost 13 pounds, his bad cholesterol levels have dropped and his HDL, or good cholesterol, has improved.

"Some indicators of health seem to be moving in a direction that is recommended," Haub told CTV News Channel.

That's surprising, considering his daily diet.

Breakfast consists of a snack cake such as a Twinkie, sugary cereal with milk, and coffee. Lunch is pretty much the same thing, followed by an afternoon snack of more Twinkies and cakes and maybe a hotdog or some Doritos. Then for dinner it's low calorie veggies and milk, followed by a dessert or snack before bed.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100917/twinkie-diet-100917/

[ellie]

1. I wonder what his lean body mass

is doing. I was always under the impression that you have to eat protein to maintain your muscle mass or else you end up skinny fat.

[KittyWampus]

2. I wonder if he still manages to take a complete healthy dump. If his kidneys and liver and pancreas

are happy.

If he's actually able to concentrate.

Whatever.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Yeah but no one is catching him running into the bathroom and

inhaling hummus and textured vegetable protein.

[LostinVA]

3. People lose weight eating a small salad a day

And taking in nothing else but tea or water, and I bet their cholesterol, etc, is "good." And, they are horribly unhealthy. The professor in the OP is taking in less calories than he is expending, but that doesn't mean he is healthy, nor is his diet. I call BS on his "research." Did he spike his cholesterol before he started? And his weight, etc.? Yeah, betcha.

It doesn't appear this gentleman is an MD, or did I miss that?

[pinboy3niner]

6. He's not an M.D., he's a Ph.D.

Mark Haub, Ph.D.’s Education

University of Kansas
MS & PhD , Exercise Physiology , 1993 — 1998

Activities and Societies:Outstanding MS and PhD Student, Student Research Award Central States ACSM (twice).


Fort Hays State University
B.A. , Psychology , 1989 — 1992

Activities and Societies:Intercollegiate Athletics (cross country, indoor track and outdoor track), Resident Assistant/Manage, Psychology Club


Topeka West

1986 — 1990


http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-haub-ph-d/13/880/5ab

[sarge43]

4. Hope he's brushing his teeth every hour on the hour or some oral surgeon

will be buying a new Beemer.