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The Twinkie Diet for Weight Loss
After lots of questions and comments (thanks everyone!!!) here is my response to the Twinkie Diet.
If you missed it, here is what CNN said about Dr. Twinkie:
“Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds”
This brings up all sorts of good questions:
- Do calories matter? (I bet you can guess my answer on this one!)
- Do the quality of calories matter? (Yes, but how much?)
- If his health numbers got better (which they did), did he get healthier?
- How do we define health?
The TRUTH…
Calories matter and physics is still a valid science.
Take in more calories than you burn and you will add weight.
Take in fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight.
The hard part is that in free living people (read, you and me), it is not that simple! It was, I would not see so many large and in charge people at the mall!
Most people’s goal is not to see how “hardcore” they can be and eat chicken and broccoli every day of their life. They want to see how many “bad” foods they can eat and still maintain their health and body composition (read, look good naked) goals.
If you are a metabolic wreck (metabolically inflexible), you don’t have much room in your diet and you will have to be stricter, especially if you are already cutting your calories.
If you have metabolic flexibility, eating some “bad” foods from time to time (or often as in this case) should not be an issue as your body can convert them into fuel without many side effects.
Weight loss also has profound effects on health too, as seen here. Perhaps you eat “bad” but lose weight and feel better and your blood lipids get better?
I’ve hammered on this point in my interview at The Movement in Dallas, but it is up to each person to test and see for themselves.
Twinkies will never be a nutrient dense food (unless you are looking for your density of corn products), but on the flip side they should not send you into a metabolic tail spin either.
As I’ve mentioned before, the human body is amazingly adaptable, which I believe is the key to health.
Rock on,
Mike T Nelson
About the Author
Mike T. Nelson is a PhD Candidate at the University of Minnesota in Kinesiology (Exercise Science) and his current research is on Metabolic Flexibility and the Effects of Energy Drinks. For more information about Mike T. Nelson, click here build lean muscle fast or visit http://MikeTNelson.com.
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