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Message: <blockquote data-quote="n423" data-source="post: 1359748" data-attributes="member: 7037">No, but it is also a weight loss tool. <img src="/images/smilies/rotflmao.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rotflmao:" title="Rotflmao    :rotflmao:" data-shortname=":rotflmao:" />................................................................................................................Nutrition Professor Loses 26 Pounds On "Twinkie" Diet One professor is proving that you can lose weight by eating junk food.Nutrition expert Mark Haub decided to experiment on himself by spending ten weeks eating a diet dominated by sweets and chips. At every meal, he ate a twinkie, sometimes mixing it up with Little Debbie snacks, Oreos, Doritos and sugary cereals. The premise behind his "convenience store diet" was that for pure weight loss, calories mattered most--not nutritional value. Haub lost 26 pounds in two months. His calorie consumption under his junk food diet came out to roughly 1,800 calories a day, down from a norm of 2,600 calories. His body mass index decreased from 28.8, considered overweight, to 24.9. His "bad" cholesterol levels went down, while his "good" cholesterol levels improved. His triglyceride level lowered by 39 percent.Haub didn't completely obliterate healthy foods from his diet during those ten weeks--he ate vegetables in front of his children at dinner so not to set a bad example, and took a multivitamin every day.</blockquote>