Surviving the New America: Twinkie Diet

Twinkie Diet

So I am sure most of you have heard about the Nutrition Professor that went on a "twinkie" diet and lost weight. Make sure you read into this diet that Professor Haub tested on himself. In the article is mentioned how multi-vitamins, vegetables, and other nutrients were consumed during the experiment for two and a half months. I don't recommend this diet obviously. The test results were positive, minus the borderline diabetic readings, but anything will look positive when you take 25 pounds of bad weight off of your body. The whole point of the diet was to show that reducing caloric intake with any calories, good or bad, will shed weight. The problem with this is that it doesn't matter what you're putting into your body...if you don't get the correct amounts of nutrition in all areas, your body will be depleted and malnourished and you will feel it.

It doesn't matter if you eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for 10 weeks, your body is not getting everything it needs. Let's take the guy that did the independent film Super Size Me for example: He ate McDonald's every day for 30 days and had tests done to see how it would affect his health. I ask..."well smart guy, what did you learn?" only because he could have eaten Ben and Jerry's, or pretzels, or Top Ramen noodles, or anything three times a day for a month and anyone would be feeling a little malnourished.

Rules of thumb to follow through this upcoming holiday season:

Make breakfast the biggest meal of the day/dinner the smallest
Your meals should fill both of your cupped hands and no more (the size of a normal stomach +/-)
Eat more fruits and vegatables
Portion control, it's okay to try everything...just use small portions at big family dinners
It's okay to have sweets, your body needs sugars, chocolates, butter, etc. but only in small quantities
NEVER eat 3 hours before bed
Drink more water especially as soon as you wake up when your body needs it the most (water also keeps the hunger away)
Walk that food off...find a hill or a path and go for a walk for 20-40 minutes
Cook instead of going out to eat. This will save you money and you will burn calories preparing, cooking, and cleaning up after.
Nutrition and diet is only half of the equation, exercise is the other half...need I say more? (well I shall, but in future posts)

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