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SiG MT 97 TO YOUR HEALTH By Russell Herring, DNP • Great Falls Clinic n family practice we're oen asked our thoughts on diets, dietary guidelines and how we feel a certain diet may benefit a patient. Television shows, scaered throughout the day, perpetuate this conversation. Dr. Oz is always peddling the latest and greatest, so long as Mehmet Oz gets a kickback or ratings spike for encouraging his viewers to do X, take Y or eliminate Z. e evening news is absolutely liered with pharmaceutical commercials. It's no wonder that the lay person is le with Dr. Google. How else are you supposed to make sense of the never-ending, eternal push to sell you a product. "I've been looking into the keto lifestyle." "What do you think of Atkins?" "Have you heard of the Mediterranean Diet?" "What does DASH stand for, anyway?" "My friend is on a FODMAP diet, do you think that would help me?" While the practice of medicine, the practice of nursing, nutrition and exercise are all evidence-based scientific pursuits, there is art and individuality to them as well. e same patient, asking two different healthcare providers, may receive two different answers from each practitioner. is doesn't mean either is wrong. e patient may have shared a slightly different detail with each provider. Provider A may have asked slightly different questions, or the provider-patient team may have agreed on slightly different activity recommendations. Each person is their own lile mystery. One person may lose weight regardless of the diet they choose. Another person may have difficulty losing weight no maer what lengths they go to. is is where science, research and art shake hands. Would you believe that the "right" diet for you is one that you can follow? Shows like, "e Biggest Loser" and "My 600 Pound Life" have led people to expect instant successes, but the reality is that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Sometimes trite is true. It is America and we've been led to expect miracle cures and instant results, but the best diet is the diet you'll still be on tomorrow. e Twinkie Diet was tested in 2010, by Kansas State University nutrition professor Mark Haub, PhD. Professor Haub subsisted on Twinkies, Oreos, Doritos and the like for 10 weeks and lost 27 pounds. He adhered to the most trusted, tried and true law of dieting - the First Law of ermodynamics (FLoT). is law states that the energy of a closed system is constant. Energy can neither be created, nor destroyed - it can only change form. Inside a human, this means Twinkie in, heat and motion out. If there is more Twinkie in than motion and energy out, then the excess Twinkie is stored as fat. Professor Haub carefully regulated his calories in, versus out, and lost 27 pounds... yes, on Twinkies. Calories In, And the Power of the Wrien Word Calories Out… I