A calorie-restricted diet, even one consisting of processed foods, may reverse or halt atherosclerosis due to improvements in insulin resistance.

“you could also get benefits and we've seen this people have done this experiment you could eat a calorie restricted Twinkie diet and still get benefits right so I actually think that it would potentially be possible to reverse atherosclerosis or at least halt the progression of atherosclerosis eating a calorically restricted Twinkie diet right because you could reverse many of the pathologies around insulin resistance when you become calorie restricted that will be very favorable for insulin resistance”