Little Debbies for Weight Loss...Really

Hey, don't take my word for it. I'm not a nutritionist, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express recently, but there seems to be a link to packaged foods like Twinkies and Little Debbies to weight loss. This according to Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University.
For 10 months, Haub ate a sugary snack every three hours instead of eating a meal, and in two months, he dropped 27 pounds. Not only that, but his bad cholesterol decreased and his "good" cholesterol actually went up! His triglycerides dropped by 39%. I'm not kidding. His BMI dropped from an obese rating of 28.8 to a more svelte 24.9 in that time ass well...and this is a man who ate whole grains and generally "healthy" food prior to the experiment (if you can call a sample size of one a real experiment).
The only thing he ate that we would consider healthy was one serving of a vegetable (usually canned green beans or some celery sticks), a multi-vitamin and a protein shake (Muscle Milk) every day; otherwise, Kellogg's corn Pops, brownies, and the like every three hours.
Haub is nonplussed, to say the least, but he reckons the secret lies not in what he ate but in the amount of calories and fat he consumed: his daily caloric input was around 1700 calories (down from his previous average of 2600 cal/day) that contained 95 (or so) grams of fat. He also avoided meat, whole grains and fruit. Amazing. Thus, the secret is not surprising: eat more frequently and don't overeat. Sounds simple, really, but when was the last time you left the table a bit less than full? I think that may be the key.
An interesting part of the experiment occurred after he stopped his diet. As he began to eat meat, again, his cholesterol level began to rise.
If you are curious, Haub logged it all on his FaceBook page (where else?): Professor Haub's Diet Experiment.

Valerie Bertinelli will want to know about this!