The so-called Twinkies diet may have helped nutrition professor Mark Haub shed 27 pounds, but you're right to wonder whether the weight loss caused by a diet of, in part, Twinkies can stick.

“If his experiment proved anything at all, it's that calories count,” Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University, says in the Chicago Tribune blog Julie's Health Club. “If he wants to do that with junk food that's fine, but let's see how long it takes for him to gain it all back.”
Haub, of Kansas State University, said he ate different snack foods, including Twinkies.
So what's really in a Twinkie? Photographer Dwight Eschliman shot an image of each ingredient on a clear glass plate — beautiful to behold, but it still doesn't make me want to eat one.
Author and editor Steve Ettlinger, in his tell-all book “Twinkie, Deconstructed,” finds ingredients that come from Oklahoma's gypsum mines and Idaho's phosphate mines, and TLC Cooking details the chemistry of making Twinkies.
If all of this sounds somehow tempting, the nutritional breakdown from Calorie Count might sober you up. It sure makes endless bowls of more traditional diet food — lettuce, carrots, etc. — look tempting.
(Source: Latimes.com)