Nutrition professor Mark Haub undertook what's now known around the world as the "Junk Food Diet." He ate many of the foods typically considered persona non grata in dieting like Twinkies, Oreos, and other guilty pleasure foods. Yet somehow still managed to lose 27 pounds, drop is body fat percentage and bad cholesterol (LDL) numbers while raising his good cholesterol (HDL) numbers.
As he describes to The Doctors today, before beginning the diet, Haub consumed about 2,600 calories per day and dropped that down to 1,800. He claims that for weight loss, what matters is your total calorie consumption, and not the nutritional value of the food.
About two-thirds of his diet was made up of junk food and he also took a multivitamin and drank a protein shake. While Haub was able to lose weight on the diet, he does not recommend taking up the diet as a regular lifestyle. According to CNN.com, he says "I'm not geared to say this is a good thing to do.... I'm stuck in the middle. I guess that's the frustrating part. I can't give a concrete answer. There's not enough information to do that."
