>>76742289
>Wasn't there a famous study where a guy lost weight eating only twinkies and multivitamins?
It wasn't a study, it was a stunt by a Professor of nutrition named Mark Haub back in 2010. He lost 27 lbs in 8 weeks and his food consisted of "Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos".

But not only that, he also improved most (all?) of his health markers too (among them, a whopping 10% (!!!) reduction in body fat), so whatever he ate before this twinkie diet, it was much more unhealthy than literally living exclusively on refined sweets. Allegedly, he claimed his "before diet" was the typical "healthy" diet of "whole grains, dietary fiber, berries and bananas, vegetables and occasional treats like pizza". Just not controlled for calories. This is his claim.

Does that sound believable? Not exactly, in fact, it sounds like complete bullshit, especially sicne tha math just doesn't check out (A 700 calorie reduction over 70 days means a 22 lbs loss, not a 27 lbs loss and with that reduction in body fat, the weight loss didn't come from water weight either). But you Americans believe anything that's online anyway and still quote it after over a decade of the thing never having been replicated (in fact, I have seen some guys on here quoting fucking Supersize Me form the 00s as if it was some super secret documentary).

Anyway, tl;dr: here's an article about it. Surprisingly hard to find any good info since the whole thing is so old.