Nutrition Professor Mark Haub Loses 27 Pounds on the Twinkie Diet

I fear no good is going to come from the man you see in the picture telling the world how he managed to lose 27 pounds in two months.

Professor Mark Haub, at Kansas State University, where he is a Professor of Human Nutrition posed the premise that in weight loss it is counting calories which matters most. Not where those calories come from,

Now, this is not ground-breaking news, that consuming fewer calories than your caloric needs is going to cause weight loss.

However, what Professor Haub ate to lose weight does go against the conventional wisdom. Twinkies, Doritos, various Little Debbie convenience store goodies, Kellogg's Corn Pops and other sugary goodies.

Professor Haub carefully kept count of the calories he was consuming. Just to maintain a steady weight, he'd need about 2,600 calories a day. Eating junk food, Haub took in less than 1,800 a day. Hence the weight loss.

A further disturbing piece of this news is the fact that, apparently, Professor Haub's LDL (bad cholesterol) dropped 20%. His HDL (good cholesterol) increased 20 %. His triglyceride level dropped 39%.

The healthy outcome, from the unhealthy diet, is perplexing those who worry about such things.

Overlooked, maybe, is the additional fact that, amongst the sugary junk, Professor Haub also drank 150 calories worth of whole milk, drank a protein shake, ate some baby carrots and other vegetables and took Centrum Advanced Formula From A to Zinc.

Now, my fear is that the news of the success of the Twinkie Diet is going to be heard only in part.

As in, the one or two obese people who's feeding habits I have observed are already on the Twinkie Diet. Neither is very bright. They likely will now conclude they just were not eating enough Twinkies and will amp up the consumption hoping for that magic weight loss. Neither would be able to process the part about counting calories.

Did Hostess and Little Debbie stock go up today?