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Coke Funded Study to Promote Twinkie Diet

It’s been a decade since CNN reported on a professor of human nutrition who ate Twinkies for every three hours for 10 weeks, adding a few Doritos, sugary cereals and Oreos for variety, and lost 27 pounds doing it. He did admit to lowering his calorie intake to 1,800, but still, his body fat dropped from 33.4 to 24.9%. His cholesterol numbers improved too. He admitted that once the diet trial was over, he added 300 calories and meat back into his diet, which increased his...