Is processed sugar bad for rebooting?

Thought you all might enjoy this.

This nutrition professor lost 27lbs in two months eating twinkies.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/

Something tells me most of his lost weight was muscle!

 

That is funny... and indeed such a diet.. eating a small amount of sugary junk food... would be complete hell for me as I would be ravenously hungry all the time!! It would take an incredible amount of discipline (at least for me) But his point is taken, and not surprising: consume less calories than you need and you will lose weight. I guess the bigger outcome is that it is better for you to eat to little poor quality than too much good quality food.... at least for the few things they looked at... cool.

 

I ran the numbers because I wanted to know how much fat and muscle he lost. Knowing that 1lb fat is 3500 calories, 1lb muscle is 600. He was deficient 700 cal per day for 70 days and lost 27 lbs. Well, figured it up and graphed it to be 12.5 lbs fat, and 14.5 lbs muscle. Thats approximate but still....Not a good diet!