5 Fast-Food Diets for Big Weight Loss

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2. Convenience-Store Diet
If you're a sucker for Snickers, do yourself a favor and stop reading now. This diet is a meal plan you do not need to know exists. We're talking about the convenience-store diet, a two-month experiment performed in 2010 by Mark Haub, PhD, professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University. A nutrition professor seems like an unlikely candidate for eating straight-up junk for 60 days, but ... more 

Photo by: Mandy Oaklander

2. Convenience-Store Diet
If you're a sucker for Snickers, do yourself a favor and stop reading now. This diet is a meal plan you do not need to know exists. We're talking about the convenience-store diet, a two-month experiment performed in 2010 by Mark Haub, PhD, professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University. A nutrition professor seems like an unlikely candidate for eating straight-up junk for 60 days, but his mission was to demonstrate that no matter how you get your calories, as long as you cut them back, you can drop pounds. He did so by mostly consuming Twinkies, Doritos, and snack cakes. But he also supplemented with vitamins, exercise, protein shakes, and some fresh veggies. Here's the scary part: Professor Haub lost 27 pounds and his good HDL cholesterol went up. But you might want wait for a more long-term guinea pig before you toss the kale for Kit Kats.

Make Your Own Drying Food At Home

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