{"id":7237,"date":"2010-11-09T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2011-01-04T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T17:30:07","slug":"trying-the-twinkie-diet-not-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/11\/09\/trying-the-twinkie-diet-not-so-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying the Twinkie diet?  Not so fast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/HEALTH\/11\/08\/twinkie.diet.professor\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"il_fi\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/cm\/esquire\/images\/twinkies-0407-460x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a registered dietitian and nutrition professor at <a href=\"www.bu.edu\">Boston University<\/a>, I have known for decades, that when it comes to weight loss, the magic two words are:\u00a0 Calories Count.<\/p>\n<p>If you consume less calories than you need, you will lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>When overweight individuals lose weight, short term health indicators often improve.\u00a0 For example, a person&#8217;s blood pressure and cholesterol may decrease to a healthier range.\u00a0<strong> However<\/strong>, if the weight reducing diet was mainly from sweets and treats, you are robbing your body of nutrients, such as antioxidants that are anti-aging and good for long term health.\u00a0 A better bet would be to consume a calorie reducing, plant-based well-balanced diet that not only is kind to your waist but also you heart, mind, and soul. &#8211; <strong>SAR Clinical Associate Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/salge\/\">Joan Salge Blake<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a registered dietitian and nutrition professor at Boston University, I have known for decades, that when it comes to weight loss, the magic two words are:\u00a0 Calories Count. If you consume less calories than you need, you will lose weight. When overweight individuals lose weight, short term health indicators often improve.\u00a0 For example, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[4121,4123,759,4122,2202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}