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Man loses 27 pounds on Twinkies and snack cakes (and vegetables and vitamins, as well). He's a professor of nutrition, running a bit of an experiment to prove to his students that weight loss is, at its core, down to calories in vs. calories out.

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"I'm not geared to say this is a good thing to do," he said. "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."

I applaud his integrity for saying that, but just watch this thing get twisted and blown out of proportion by greedy ppl. :/

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I'm reading the comments on the Reddit post where I found this, and it's already being hit by the people with bizarre diet ideas arguing ... what, I ahve no idea in quite a lot of cases. (I just replied to a guy who claims that humans evolved eating most of their calories from meat and just a few from plants and nuts. Sorry, bub, that was nowhere in *my* reading!)