Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Lose weight by eating chips and chocolate bars?

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

Read more about the infamous 'Twinkie diet'... a nutrition professor attempted to lose weight by eating junk snacks (chocolate bars, potato chips, etc). (Twinkie is a brand of cream cake in the US.)

What do you think?

>Offhand a few things come to mind:
-need to monitor results for longer period of time
-the junk snacks fill you up (sugar, fats) and you probably feel 'jelak' (don't feel like eating) due to the lingering taste (flavouring in chips? syrup?)... so your total calorie intake probably won't reach what it would if you ate your usual meal
-not healthy to eat like that (obvious, right :0

>Read Tom Venuto's response to this
http://www.burnthefatblog.com/archives/2010/11/the_twinkie_diet.php

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