Biggest Loser Fast Weight Loss Healthy or Harmful?

The Biggest Loser fast weight loss is harmful. Itcomposition of your body". Says Arnold
would not only make you regain the weight backSchwarzenegger in his Encyclopedia of Modern
but also put your health at risk. Weight loss isBodybuilding.
more about what you lose than how much youThe Biggest Loser's goal is just losing WEIGHT,
lose and than how fast you lose weight.not losing FAT weight, meaning doing anything to
Regain the weight or moremake the figures down on the scales, it can be
First, the contestants of The Biggest Loser godangerous. By not knowing what you really lose,
extraordinary lengths to starve weight off,you can become a skinny "obese" person who is
exercise it off, and do anything you can to get ridstill holding a lot of fat inside your body after
of the weight, they lose weight fast, but whenlosing a lot of muscles and water along with the
starvation and numerous hours-a-day exercisefat.
stops, the weight piles back on.The danger of fast weight loss
"Any diet or situation that reduces energy intakeFinally, The Biggest Loser's fast weight loss is
for long enough will result in weight loss." says andevastating to your health. It
US registered dietitian, Helen Storey. "However,- reduces lean muscle mass
reviewing the literature will alert us to the- slows metabolism
knowledge that about 95% of people who lose- weakens the heart
weight will regain it over the next five years."- makes you more susceptible to illness and
The U.S. National Weight Control Registry havedisease
found that only a fifth of the losers sustain a loss- makes you regain more weight
of 10% of their body weight for a year or more.- causes psychological problems
How much you lose vs what you loseIn conclusion, it is the wrong way to lose weight
Second, what more important is not about howfast like what The Biggest Loser do, which dose
much weight you lose but WHAT you lose and ismore harm than good. The price paid for the
about your BODY COMPOSITION which refers toweight you lose can be your health. You can lose
the amount of relative fat to muscles you have ina lot of muscles along with the fat. In addition, it
your body.can make you gain the weight back or more.
"When you add lean body mass and cut down onSuccessful weight loss is sustainable fat loss and
fat weight you are actually changing thejudged on body composition.