The Twinkie Diet

[heliochrome85]

I'll just leave this here...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/tw ... index.html

[Jesda]

Note to self: Youre doing it wrong.

[Dattebayo]

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The Bacon Diet

[alms24sebring]

I still dont believe its healthy. its still loads of sugar and I bet other parts of his nutrition are in the red. On top of that he contaminated it by protein shakes etc. I also wonder how his emotions fluctuated like we saw in Supersize Me.

But with that fact up there, I want to start a cheese 'diet'. From spicy hot liquid, to hard blocks-o-cheese alllll day.
This cheesy idea gives me stuff to think about at night. I wanna rub it around and stoke my.. ehem.... sorry, got carried away.

[Jesda]

Morgan Spurlock exaggerated for the camera. Dude's a fagtron.


Fagtron is my new word.

[RCA]

Next:

The Bacon Diet

Adkins diet?

[Alfador]

It's probably more the eating small amounts every 3 hours thing than anything else.

Honestly any diet that limits most of your caloric intake to one type of nutrient is probably terrible for you.

[ADDirishboy]

His insulin levels are spiking like a mofo. That's not good for you in the slightest.

So yea, you may lose weight. But you're ingesting MASSIVE amounts of sugar and carbs. Both of which are bad for you.

You don't have to be fat to have high cholesterol and clogged arteries.

[numbnuts240]

You don't have to be fat to have high cholesterol and clogged arteries.

says you. i'm working on a trifecta right meow.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

His insulin levels are spiking like a mofo. That's not good for you in the slightest.

So yea, you may lose weight. But you're ingesting MASSIVE amounts of sugar and carbs. Both of which are bad for you.

You don't have to be fat to have high cholesterol and clogged arteries.

Did you read the article? His cholesterol levels actually dropped.

[ADDirishboy]

Did you read the article? His cholesterol levels actually dropped.

No, I didn't read the whole article. I think it's retarded that someone is willingly doing that to their body, so I stopped. Ingesting that much sugar is awful for you. That dude is gonna have some serious health issues later on.

Edit: I found it hilarious that this guy was overweight, and teaching a nutrition class.

[AppleBonker]

Read the article. He's not recommending the diet as healthy. Just pointing out that the major key to losing weight is reducing caloric intake. It's not what you eat, but rather how much. He even admits this is probably not a good idea. I think this was to stress portion control in terms of a nutritional diet. If he can lose weight on a low enough caloric intake (based mostly on twinkies), anyone can lose weight eating healthy food assuming the calories are in line with your need (and the healthy food will provide the other nutrients your body needs). It's not even a long article...

[MinisterofDOOM]

Let's run through this again:

Calorie:
Etymology: Latin "calor" meaning heat.
Calorie is a measure of thermal energy content.
Thermal energy is what your body extracts from the food when it is digested.

The point of food is to replenish energy. Calories are energy. Eating food with low calorie contents is akin to adding diluted gasoline to your car's gas tank. Calories ARE THE POINT OF EATING. Buying low calorie foods is stupid. I never understood the whole "eat the same amount and consume less calories" approach. Women especially baffle me here. There are all sorts of pre-portioned candies for dieting women out there, it's a HUGE market. If you're too dumb to stop stuffing your face with chocolate unless box is empty, that's a stupidity problem, not a calorie problem.

[Jesda]

Did you read the article? His cholesterol levels actually dropped.

No, I didn't read the whole article. I think it's retarded that someone is willingly doing that to their body, so I stopped. Ingesting that much sugar is awful for you. That dude is gonna have some serious health issues later on.

Edit: I found it hilarious that this guy was overweight, and teaching a nutrition class.

You should read it from beginning to end.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

Let's run through this again:

Calorie:
Etymology: Latin "calor" meaning heat.
Calorie is a measure of thermal energy content.
Thermal energy is what your body extracts from the food when it is digested.

The point of food is to replenish energy. Calories are energy. Eating food with low calorie contents is akin to adding diluted gasoline to your car's gas tank. Calories ARE THE POINT OF EATING. Buying low calorie foods is stupid. I never understood the whole "eat the same amount and consume less calories" approach. Women especially baffle me here. There are all sorts of pre-portioned candies for dieting women out there, it's a HUGE market. If you're too dumb to stop stuffing your face with chocolate unless box is empty, that's a stupidity problem, not a calorie problem.

Have you seen those individually wrapped PRUNES? Seriously...the waste of that packaging.

[Amays U G37S]

I don't believe it.

Drugs are bad

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Buying low calorie foods is stupid. I never understood the whole "eat the same amount and consume less calories" approach.

Well its pretty simple. Lets say I like the taste of coke, but am also trying to limit my calorie intake (so I can lose weight). Instead of blowing 100 some odd calories on a regular coke (5% of my daily intake), I'll just grab a diet coke, and ingest 0 calories.

Its kinda the same thing with food. 1 lb of one food doesn't necessarily contain the same amount of calories as 1 lb of another food. Nobody wants to eat a tiny little bit of a super high calorie food. Sure, it will taste great, but you'll probably be pretty hungry not soon after you consume it.

Drinking a diet coke now means you can eat more pizza later... get it? Just gotta pick and choose which diet things you can stomach, which ones are worth eating, and which ones aren't.

[IBCoupe]

I sympathize with MoD, though. Sometimes I feel like an Excel spreadsheet, too.

[sx moneypit]

One of my ex bosses has been on the Twinkie diet before it was a diet.He weighs about 275 lbs and stands about 5.5 feet tall.

[IBCoupe]

Is it fun to roll him down hills?

[sx moneypit]

Is it fun to roll him down hills?

[Alfador]

Read the article. He's not recommending the diet as healthy. Just pointing out that the major key to losing weight is reducing caloric intake. It's not what you eat, but rather how much. He even admits this is probably not a good idea. I think this was to stress portion control in terms of a nutritional diet. If he can lose weight on a low enough caloric intake (based mostly on twinkies), anyone can lose weight eating healthy food assuming the calories are in line with your need (and the healthy food will provide the other nutrients your body needs). It's not even a long article...

He's still like the dumbest dietitian ever. He should have known that regardless of whatever point he was trying to prove, and regardless of whether or not he proved it, people would use this as a reason to race towards diabetes while being too lazy to lose weight a normal way.

[IBCoupe]

How many of those people are the same people who'd see a Twinkie and salivate at the thought of eating it anyways? The type of people you describe don't seem to be careful eaters in the first place.

[AppleBonker]

He's still like the dumbest dietitian ever. He should have known that regardless of whatever point he was trying to prove, and regardless of whether or not he proved it, people would use this as a reason to race towards diabetes while being too lazy to lose weight a normal way.

I'm all for it. And I hope those people race towards it become diabetic. I'd laugh at them.

There have been people who have survived falls out of planes with no (or a severely malfunctioning) parachute. I don't see people racing towards this either. Look, if you're dumb enough to think this is a good idea, have at it. Unfortunately, our society supports these people and refuses to blame them for their own bad decisions. Now it seems like I can just sue whoever I want for not stating the obvious to me. Though, once again, I must point out that this guy is NOT recommending this as a valid diet. If you plan on going against his recommendations, I would call that your own problem. Not his.

[Jesda]

For those who did not read the article:

He's not advocating a Twinkie diet. He tried it as an experiment to see what would happen and is baffled by his findings. Scientific method.

[heliochrome85]

reading = hard.

[Papi Chulo]

reading = hard.

only if you're reading p0rn........

[IBCoupe]

You lost me at "rea"

[heliochrome85]

reading = hard.

only if you're reading p0rn........

i like picture books.

[Alfador]

Well, the sad part is the fact that he advises against it doesn't mean he won't get sued by some jackass who get's diabetes, or the family of some jackass that gets even fatter and has an infarction because he pounded down a bunch of twinkies. There are enough darwin award candidates in the country to make this a very real possibility, and it wouldn't be the first time someone got a massive settlement or jury award for their own stupidity.