As fad diets go, Mark Haub’s junk food diet isn’t that unusual. I mean, the Japanese are bananas for eating bananas, and a man in Idaho has eaten nothing but potatoes for weeks now. Those are both pretty strange. Still, the idea that a man would live on junk food and vitamins alone for 10 weeks is pretty crazy, if only because of what it might do to his health. Apparently, if you work out, you can eat whatever you want. Mark Haub ate 1800 calories of junk food per day, along with vitamins and protein shakes, and lost 26 pounds in 10 weeks.
It’s not just that he lost weight, it’s that he gained health. His BMI improved, his blood pressure went down, he felt happier, and his snoring even reduced! Granted, he was engaging in heavy work outs, and he made sure to get his vitamins and protein, but Haup says he proved his point and trimmed downed to 175 pounds in the process (from his starting weight of 201 pounds).
“I am not recommending or promoting this approach. I am simply in the process of illustrating that foods deemed to wreck diets, cause obesity, lead to diabetes, etc… do not – in and of themselves – do that,” said Haup, a professor of nutrition at Kansas State University.
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