{"id":24333,"date":"2010-06-29T01:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T06:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=24333"},"modified":"2010-06-29T07:47:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T12:47:22","slug":"cyclist-promotes-pizza-as-health-food-and-bikes-from-florida-to-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/cyclist-promotes-pizza-as-health-food-and-bikes-from-florida-to-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist Promotes Pizza as Health Food and Bikes From Florida to NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matt McClellan and his pizza diet. Image Via: The Consumerist<\/p><\/div>\n

Who doesn’t love pizza? If you add tons of veggies, limit the cheese and meat toppings, and make the pie from a whole-grain crust, then you have yourself a health food. Kind of.<\/p>\n

Cyclist and Florida pizzeria owner Matt McClellan is setting out to prove that pizza can in fact be a healthy choice by biking from St. Petersburg to New York City.\u00a0And for\u00a0the 30 days of his trek, he will eat nothing but pizza.<\/p>\n

McClellan actually did the 30-Day Pizza Diet<\/a> a few years ago and lost 24 pounds. On the diet, he ate nothing but pizza, up to eight slices a day, and limited his toppings to veggies, part-skim mozzarella cheese and a few other select items like lean chicken breast, pineapple and avocado. Pork, red meats and extra cheese were off limits.<\/p>\n

By following his self-created mono-diet, he was able to lower his body fat percentage, cholesterol<\/a> and blood pressure. He also exercised every day.<\/p>\n

On his East coast pizza expedition, he is biking 90 miles a day and stopping every three hours to refuel on a few slices of pizza. McClellan began his journey on June 4 in Florida and intends to finish it on the 4th of July in Times Square, with a celebratory New York-style\u00a0pizza pie.<\/p>\n

Now, I have nothing against pizza. I love the stuff, and I’ve made it as a semi-healthy meal or complete nutritional nightmare. But if you’re engaging in intense\u00a0physical activity every waking hour of your day, like McClellan is, whether it’s pizza or Krispy Kremes<\/a>, you’re going to maintain your weight or even lose it, depending upon how fast you pedal.<\/p>\n

Still, we wish\u00a0the pizza biker\u00a0nothing but luck and we’ll bring you\u00a0an update of his pizza trek next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who doesn’t love pizza? If you add tons of veggies, limit the cheese and meat toppings, and make the pie from a whole-grain crust, then you have yourself a health food. Kind of. Cyclist and Florida pizzeria owner Matt McClellan … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1622,549,31,400],"class_list":["post-24333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-cycling","tag-fad-diets","tag-health-news","tag-pizza"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24333"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24357,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24333\/revisions\/24357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}