5 bite diet day 3

(jennifer)....hands of a champaign county jury. plus, why this building andthe u of i campus is evacuated. and eating fast food 24/7could make you lose weight? how some areastudents are proving it.

5 bite diet day 3, (female speaker).and another night of frosty conditions astemperatures drop below freezingunder clear skies. (jennifer).at med center 3 tonight,

roll up your sleeves. vermilion county got ashipment of flu shots. makes it's way to the big apple,get a look at this year's rockefeller tree, it'llput you in the spirit. and next on wcia 3 news at 5,why these kids are turning to fast food as away to lose weight. and we have breaking news andan update on our top story, there is a verdict in themurder trial of dondre moore, he is accused ofkilling an urbana man.

we don't know what the verdictis right now, but all parties are headed to the court roomand as soon as we have a decision there, wewill bring it to you. a group of local film makerswants to change the way you think about weight loss. wcia 3's elizabethwenger's in the newsroom with more on thefast food diet. elizabeth. (elizabeth).yeah, it sounds interesting.

two eastern illinois universitystudents ate nothing but fast food for an entire month, it wasactually part of a documentary. now they also counted caloriesand watched what they ate, but even then theresults may surprise you. dairy queen is diet foodfor aaron grobengieser and ellen shike. she orders an ice-cream bar,he gets a banana split. (aaron grobengieser).for my diet, that's not bad. that's about 500 calories.

with my limit, you know,that fits right in. (elizabeth).every bite is caught on tape. (ellen shike).kind of embarrassing, hope you don't havefood on your face. (elizabeth).but this experiment is not for the camera shy. (male speaker).our first subject is aaron grobengieser,a grad student at eastern illinois universitystudying nutrition.

he weighs in at 254 pounds andis a ncaa all-american in track. (elizabeth).their 30 day journey eating nothing but fast food is nowin the final editing stages. the man behind it all? professor jim painter. he says the ideastarted over lunch. (jim).i was eating at subway and i was having awonderfully delicious meal of spinach and greensand onions and tuna.

(elizabeth).he decided it wasn't the fast food that was bad, itwas eating too much of it. he says even cheeseburgersand fries can be part of a healthy diet, inmoderation, of course. so you're saying thatpeople can go to mcdonald's andorder a big mac? (jim).i'm saying that you can order a big mac once a month. (elizabeth).in fact, the testers both

dropped several poundsand even saw their cholesterol levels improve, butplanning their day around food is not somethingthey want to keep up. (aaron).me and ellen both had to leave a wedding to goget fast food. we'd like topoint that out. (elizabeth).and if you're wondering, painter says he's not being paid by thefast food biz for good pr. (jim).you know, people ask me that,

they've had nothingto do with it. as a matter of fact, i've hada very hard time getting into fast food restaurants, you know,they hear about we're doing a documentary andthey're scared. (elizabeth).now they actually want to use the documentary for educationalpurposes and cbs evening news is going to do a storyon it later this month. jennifer. (jennifer).you know, that's dedication

leaving a wedding receptionjust to go get mcdonald's. so did they find that one fastfood restaurant was better or worse than others? (elizabeth).they did, they found that subway had the most healthiestoptions and stay away from hardee's with themonster thick burger. they had almost nothingthey could eat there. (jennifer).yeah, well don't tell my husband because he loves them.

alright, thanks elizabeth. the most famous christmastree in the world is taking it's place center stagetoday at rockefeller center. [no dialogue].