Shocking Findings From ‘The Biggest Loser’ Contestants
A nutrition scientist found that the reality show’s contestants’ metabolisms slowed after participating—and didn’t recover.
According to an excerpt from Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us by Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall:
It was an unusual laboratory for a metabolism and weight loss study: a sprawling ranch, the former home of the Gillette razor-blade tycoon, nestled in the dusty green Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, California.
A group of people milled about a hallway in the ranch’s white, Spanish Colonial-style mansion early one morning before breakfast— and they were not exactly chipper. Six weeks into season eight of the reality TV program The Biggest Loser, the contestants were tired.
Author's summary: Study reveals slowed metabolisms in Biggest Loser contestants.
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