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NOT FOR ME, BUT AMUSING: Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds. For 10 weeks, Ma?

By Glenn Reynolds

NOT FOR ME, BUT AMUSING: Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds.

For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too.

His premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most — not the nutritional value of the food.

The premise held up: On his “convenience store diet,” he shed 27 pounds in two months.

Plus, with all those preservatives, he’ll be forever young. Or, at least, won’t need embalming . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 09, 2010 (boomark / email).