Which Weight Loss Diet Is Best?
Lessons from the Twinkie Diet and the latest science.
8 min readFeb 1, 2020
The founder of the Twinkie Diet, a professor of nutrition at Kansas State University, lost 27 pounds (12 kg) in two months on a diet of ultraprocessed sweets. He even improved his health marker scorecard: his “bad” (LDL) cholesterol, “good” (HDL) and triglycerides all moved in the right direction.