Twinkie Diet: It Really Works?

There is no diet out there more delicious than the alleged “convenience store diet” known in some circles as the “Twinkie Diet”. In the long term the Twinkie diet can not keep a person healthy, but being healthy begins with a lower calorie intake and higher calorie burning.

This diet plan has also been called the “Bottom-Line Diet”, because the bottom line is, eat less, eat better, workout more. If your diet is bad that Twinkies become a healthier change to your diet, you will in turn become healthier, but you can’t stop there.

People can lose pounds even by taking Twinkie diet or junk foods. The pioneered discovery of eating Twinkie diet taking in consideration the calorific intake has been made by Mark Haub, a nutrition professor. He achieved success in reducing 27 pounds in ten weeks by decreasing his calorie intake but remained clinging to snack foods. Dr. Haub took only 1,800 calories every day and took vitamin supplements.

Rather, it pretty emphatically rebuts claims in such works as Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes, which suggests that the role of calories in weight is subordinate to the source of calories. The Twinkie diet was a dreadful diet. But it was, nonetheless, a diet in the conventional sense, meaning it was calorie-restricted.

A deficit of roughly 3,500 kcal is required to lose one pound of body fat. A restriction of 800 kcal per day for 70 days represents a calorie deficit of 56,000 kcal. It takes smaller calorie deficits to lose other body tissues -- such as muscle -- and none at all to lose body water, which tends to happen with dieting. Calorie restriction produced the professor's weight loss, and was not particularly helped -- and certainly not hindered -- by the fact that these were mostly "bad" calories.

An excess of body fat is associated with increased inflammatory responses, and often, increased levels of insulin. When body fat is lost, these effects are reversed -- and improvements in blood lipids are likely. Drug addiction, chemotherapy, cholera and advanced HIV are all associated with weight loss.

An overwhelming body of research shows what dietary patterns do produce lasting good health -- all emphasize wholesome, mostly plant foods direct from nature. Chewing on implications of the Twinkie diet for health in the context of either science or sense reveals that calorie control for weight loss always was a good idea, and still is; chewing on Twinkies never was, and still isn't.