| Mark Haub On A Convenience Store Diet |
Professor Haub – who lost 27lb, going from 14st 5lb to 12st 6lb – teaches human nutrition at Kansas State University in the U.S.
He carried out this experiment to prove that in a bid to lose weight, pure calorie-counting matters more than the nutritional value of a meal.His usual day consisted of having one deep fried Twinkie cake every three hours, Doritos, Kellog's Pops & Oreo cookies. He also had a daily shot of double espresso, with his final meal of the day being a protein shake with a can of green beans and a multivitamin pill. Thus cutting his daily calorie intake down to 1,800 from his usual 2,600! During the ten week diet, the professor's BMI went from an overweight 28.8 to a normal 24.9, whilst his body fat fell from 33.4% to 24.9%!On being questioned as to whether he thought his diet healthy or not, he simply didn't know and said:‘These foods are consumed by a lot of people.It may be an issue of portion size and moderation rather than total removal. I just think it is unrealistic to expect people to totally drop these foods for vegetables and fruits.’Before embarking on this diet, Mr Haub says he was a healthy eater, with his diet including wholegrains, fibre and fruit.‘I wish I could say the outcomes are unhealthy. I wish I could say it's healthy. I'm not confident enough in doing that. That frustrates a lot of people. One side says it's irresponsible. It is unhealthy, but the data doesn't say that,’ he said.‘It is a great reminder for weight loss that calories count,’ said Dawn Jackson Blatner, a dietitian from Atlanta, Georgia. Either way we're delighted with the news!! Guilt-free Doritos snacking! Yay!
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