The all-Twinkie diet and 9 more single-item weight-loss plans

An Iowa journalist reveals that an all-beer diet helped him lose 15 pounds. Here, a look at the various one-food or drink diets that show unusually good results

On a Twinkies-focused convenience store diet, a Kansas-based nutritionist dropped weight, body fat and even lowered his "bad" cholesterol.
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First it was the all-Twinkie diet. Now, Iowa-based journalist J. Wilson has revealed a diet that will have beer drinkers salivating — a 40-day all-beer-and-water plan that has already allowed him to shed 15 pounds. The beer blogger got the idea from German monks who would complete a Lenten fast drinking only beer and water. So Wilson commissioned a local brewer to make him a high-calorie ale, and has consumed nothing else since March 9. "I was hungry the first couple of days, but after that, the hunger is gone. I'm not hungry," he said. Here are nine more examples of unlikely one-food diets:

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