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(NaturalNews) Over the last month or so, the mainstream media has been making a huge deal about Kansas State nutrition professor Mark Haub who lost 27 pounds eating mostly Doritos, Twinkies and other junk food while drinking Diet Mountain Dew. But as usual, they're misrepresenting the story.
You can lose weight on chemotherapy, too. And most chemotherapy patients lose all kinds of weight due to the mass poisoning of their bodies with synthetic chemicals. Does that mean chemotherapy is weight loss medicine, too? (Don't laugh, I've seen similar conclusions written up in the mainstream media...)
Virtually anything can be promoted as a "weight loss miracle" in the following way:
The cashew diet?
Consider this: You can lose weight by starving yourself (by eating nothing). That promotes rapid weight loss as long as you stick to it -- which is, of course, nearly impossible to do for very long.
If you're fasting and living on nothing but water, suppose you gulp down one cashew once a day. You're still going to lose all kinds of weight because you're severely restricting your calories. Does that mean you've made some great discovery about a "cashew diet?" Of course not. It just means you're burning a lot more calories than you're consuming.
What if you pop a Tic-Tac once a day while you're fasting? Have you now discovered some amazing "Tic-Tac weight loss diet?" Nope. You're just fasting with a Tic-Tac.
It's the same story with Slim-Fast. Can you lose weight on Slim-Fast even though it's made primarily with processed table sugar? Sure you can! Just go a severe calorie-restriction diet, and drink some Slim-Fast from time to time. Heck, you can lose weight eating Halloween candy if you restrict your calories!
The nutrition professor who lost 27 pounds was simply on a calorie restriction diet (a partial fast, if you will) that included a slew of processed junk food. Did he discover some miracle junk food diet? Nope. He just controlled his calories while poisoning himself with junk food chemicals and artificially modified food ingredients.
Weight loss alone is no measure of good health
The really important part of this story, of however, is realizing that weight loss alone is no measure of good health. When you see people withering away from the effects of chemotherapy and radiation for cancer treatments, you don't think to yourself, "Gosh, I wish I could be that healthy! Look how amazingly healthy they are!"
No, you think to yourself, "That person is dying!"
And then there's the whole nutritional side of this story. Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Oreos are called "junk food" precisely because they represent the nutritional equivalent of garbage. They lack virtually all naturally-occurring plant-based phytonutrients and deliver almost no natural minerals or vitamins. Instead, they're made of processed, modified, factory-fabricated food ingredients that are linked to diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. And that's not to even mention the aspartame in the Diet Mountain Dew this guy was chugging.
Perhaps that's why even this nutrition professor, while living on a "junk food" diet, was smart enough to take a multivitamin, eat a serving of vegetables and drink a protein shake each day. So even he wasn't "living on junk food" as the headlines claim. He was supplementing his diet with at least some source of nutrition because he knew junk foods were going to leave him nutritionally deficient.
It would be a totally different story if he lived on junk foods alone. In that scenario, he would very quickly become deficient in key vitamins, and he'd find himself in a hospital being treated for serious diseases as a result.
The mainstream media, of course, completely fails to understand the real story here, and they've been reporting this as some sort of "junk food diet breakthrough" that suggests people can live on Twinkies and Ding Dongs while somehow losing weight and getting healthy. But we've already done that experiment in America, and the results are clear: Two-thirds of the population is overweight, and diabetes rates are soaring. Cancer is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and Big Pharma can't wait for the coming wave of Alzheimer's patients either. All that disease is promoted in part by the consumption of processed junk foods.
If processed junk food caused healthy weight loss, America would be the healthiest nation in the world. Clearly that's not the case, which means the real Ding Dong in this story is the nutrition professor himself who has set a terrible example for the nation to follow and has only offered wrongheaded encouragement to the junk food industry.
Why not just cut off his own leg and announce that "amputation promotes weight loss" too?
It reminds me of the old joke. An overweight woman says to her friends, "I just lost a hundred and ninety pounds of useless fat."
"How'd you do that?" her friends ask.
"I got a divorce."
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030616_junk_food_diet.html#ixzz19W2QGaTi
You can lose weight on chemotherapy, too. And most chemotherapy patients lose all kinds of weight due to the mass poisoning of their bodies with synthetic chemicals. Does that mean chemotherapy is weight loss medicine, too? (Don't laugh, I've seen similar conclusions written up in the mainstream media...)
Virtually anything can be promoted as a "weight loss miracle" in the following way:
The cashew diet?
Consider this: You can lose weight by starving yourself (by eating nothing). That promotes rapid weight loss as long as you stick to it -- which is, of course, nearly impossible to do for very long.
If you're fasting and living on nothing but water, suppose you gulp down one cashew once a day. You're still going to lose all kinds of weight because you're severely restricting your calories. Does that mean you've made some great discovery about a "cashew diet?" Of course not. It just means you're burning a lot more calories than you're consuming.
What if you pop a Tic-Tac once a day while you're fasting? Have you now discovered some amazing "Tic-Tac weight loss diet?" Nope. You're just fasting with a Tic-Tac.
It's the same story with Slim-Fast. Can you lose weight on Slim-Fast even though it's made primarily with processed table sugar? Sure you can! Just go a severe calorie-restriction diet, and drink some Slim-Fast from time to time. Heck, you can lose weight eating Halloween candy if you restrict your calories!
The nutrition professor who lost 27 pounds was simply on a calorie restriction diet (a partial fast, if you will) that included a slew of processed junk food. Did he discover some miracle junk food diet? Nope. He just controlled his calories while poisoning himself with junk food chemicals and artificially modified food ingredients.
Weight loss alone is no measure of good health
The really important part of this story, of however, is realizing that weight loss alone is no measure of good health. When you see people withering away from the effects of chemotherapy and radiation for cancer treatments, you don't think to yourself, "Gosh, I wish I could be that healthy! Look how amazingly healthy they are!"
No, you think to yourself, "That person is dying!"
And then there's the whole nutritional side of this story. Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Oreos are called "junk food" precisely because they represent the nutritional equivalent of garbage. They lack virtually all naturally-occurring plant-based phytonutrients and deliver almost no natural minerals or vitamins. Instead, they're made of processed, modified, factory-fabricated food ingredients that are linked to diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. And that's not to even mention the aspartame in the Diet Mountain Dew this guy was chugging.
Perhaps that's why even this nutrition professor, while living on a "junk food" diet, was smart enough to take a multivitamin, eat a serving of vegetables and drink a protein shake each day. So even he wasn't "living on junk food" as the headlines claim. He was supplementing his diet with at least some source of nutrition because he knew junk foods were going to leave him nutritionally deficient.
It would be a totally different story if he lived on junk foods alone. In that scenario, he would very quickly become deficient in key vitamins, and he'd find himself in a hospital being treated for serious diseases as a result.
The mainstream media, of course, completely fails to understand the real story here, and they've been reporting this as some sort of "junk food diet breakthrough" that suggests people can live on Twinkies and Ding Dongs while somehow losing weight and getting healthy. But we've already done that experiment in America, and the results are clear: Two-thirds of the population is overweight, and diabetes rates are soaring. Cancer is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and Big Pharma can't wait for the coming wave of Alzheimer's patients either. All that disease is promoted in part by the consumption of processed junk foods.
If processed junk food caused healthy weight loss, America would be the healthiest nation in the world. Clearly that's not the case, which means the real Ding Dong in this story is the nutrition professor himself who has set a terrible example for the nation to follow and has only offered wrongheaded encouragement to the junk food industry.
Why not just cut off his own leg and announce that "amputation promotes weight loss" too?
It reminds me of the old joke. An overweight woman says to her friends, "I just lost a hundred and ninety pounds of useless fat."
"How'd you do that?" her friends ask.
"I got a divorce."
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030616_junk_food_diet.html#ixzz19W2QGaTi
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Dr. Katz on Huffington Post had a really good reponse to the Twinkie Diet too.0
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This is great! Thanks for sharing
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love this!! thanks!0
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I agree that a lot of people took this concept out of context. From what I can tell this nutritionist wasn't promoting an unhealthy diet, he was simply proving a point. You will lose weight if you eat less calories than your body uses in a day, no matter the source of calories. So many people say you need to eat healthy to lose weight and it simply isn't true. You only need to take in less calories than you need. Now to lose weight and be HEALTHY you need to eat healthy foods and exercise while still restricting your calories. But in our junk food obsessed world, most people only saw Eat crap=lose weight.0
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Interesting, but the only articles I've seen on the so-called Twinkie diet have very carefully stated that the professor who was on the diet actually stated that it was not recommended as healthy only as a demonstration that weight loss was strictly a result of calorie restriction, regardless of the type of calories. I've not seen mainstream media represent it as anything other than that. Nor have I ever seen mainstream media being proponents of a chemo diet.0
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...and god forbid you eat a twinkie, it's ok. It's not the end of the world. And that you can allow yourself a treat every once and a while.I agree that a lot of people took this concept out of context. From what I can tell this nutritionist wasn't promoting an unhealthy diet, he was simply proving a point. You will lose weight if you eat less calories than your body uses in a day, no matter the source of calories. So many people say you need to eat healthy to lose weight and it simply isn't true. You only need to take in less calories than you need. Now to lose weight and be HEALTHY you need to eat healthy foods and exercise while still restricting your calories. But in our junk food obsessed world, most people only saw Eat crap=lose weight.
Some people really need to re-take reading comprehension again. Just noticed that came from "Natural News". Nothing shocking there. Of course they want to push their own agenda.0 -
...and god forbid you eat a twinkie, it's ok. It's not the end of the world. And that you can allow yourself a treat every once and a while.I agree that a lot of people took this concept out of context. From what I can tell this nutritionist wasn't promoting an unhealthy diet, he was simply proving a point. You will lose weight if you eat less calories than your body uses in a day, no matter the source of calories. So many people say you need to eat healthy to lose weight and it simply isn't true. You only need to take in less calories than you need. Now to lose weight and be HEALTHY you need to eat healthy foods and exercise while still restricting your calories. But in our junk food obsessed world, most people only saw Eat crap=lose weight.
Some people really need to re-take reading comprehension again. Just noticed that came from "Natural News". Nothing shocking there. Of course they want to push their own agenda.
I agree that you should have treats because I think that in moderation they can be part of a healthy lifestyle0 -
LOVE LOVE the joke at the bottom0
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...and god forbid you eat a twinkie, it's ok. It's not the end of the world. And that you can allow yourself a treat every once and a while.I agree that a lot of people took this concept out of context. From what I can tell this nutritionist wasn't promoting an unhealthy diet, he was simply proving a point. You will lose weight if you eat less calories than your body uses in a day, no matter the source of calories. So many people say you need to eat healthy to lose weight and it simply isn't true. You only need to take in less calories than you need. Now to lose weight and be HEALTHY you need to eat healthy foods and exercise while still restricting your calories. But in our junk food obsessed world, most people only saw Eat crap=lose weight.
Some people really need to re-take reading comprehension again. Just noticed that came from "Natural News". Nothing shocking there. Of course they want to push their own agenda.
Exactly! Just like consumers neet to remember "buyer beware", internet researchers should keep in mind "consider the source".0 -
...and god forbid you eat a twinkie, it's ok. It's not the end of the world. And that you can allow yourself a treat every once and a while.I agree that a lot of people took this concept out of context. From what I can tell this nutritionist wasn't promoting an unhealthy diet, he was simply proving a point. You will lose weight if you eat less calories than your body uses in a day, no matter the source of calories. So many people say you need to eat healthy to lose weight and it simply isn't true. You only need to take in less calories than you need. Now to lose weight and be HEALTHY you need to eat healthy foods and exercise while still restricting your calories. But in our junk food obsessed world, most people only saw Eat crap=lose weight.
Some people really need to re-take reading comprehension again. Just noticed that came from "Natural News". Nothing shocking there. Of course they want to push their own agenda.
I agree that you should have treats because I think that in moderation they can be part of a healthy lifestyle
By the way I wasn't responding to the article its self, but the the actual experiment the nutritionist proved. There has been tons of reporting on this story recently0
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