HowTo: Lose 27 Pounds Eating Twinkies

What's more important in maintaining a healthy body weight? Eating healthy food or simply reducing your calorie intake?

You may think a human nutrition professor would encourage the former, but instead Kansas State University's Mark Haub proved the latter. CNN reports that Professor Haub dropped 27 pounds in just two and a half months eating junk food. For ten weeks Haub ate a Twinkie every three hours, reducing his normal calorie intake of 2,600 to 1,800.

(*Notably, the CNN article reveals halfway through that "two-thirds of Haub's total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four celery stalks.")

So does the professor recommend this "convenient store diet"?

"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."