[dalbroker]

You should read up on Jon Gabriel. He speaks about this at
length.

I just purchased his book after watching a few of his videos
on youtube.

Def very interesting.

(05-02-2016 06:54 AM)Menace Wrote:  

Interesting article from NYT regarding contestants from Biggest Loser:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health....html?_r=0

Quote:

Kevin Hall, a scientist at a federal research center who admits to a weakness for reality TV, had the idea to follow the “Biggest Loser” contestants for six years after that victorious night. The project was the first to measure what happened to people over as long as six years after they had lost large amounts of weight with intensive dieting and exercise.

The results, the researchers said, were stunning. They showed just how hard the body fights back against weight loss.

“It is frightening and amazing,” said Dr. Hall, an expert on metabolism at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. “I am just blown away.”

It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes.

Thoughts? The one thing to remember is that there is a lot of bias in the statistical sample, and these people are not representative of the general population.