| The Biggest Loser fast weight loss is harmful. It | | | | composition of your body". Says Arnold |
| would not only make you regain the weight back | | | | Schwarzenegger in his Encyclopedia of Modern |
| but also put your health at risk. Weight loss is | | | | Bodybuilding. |
| more about what you lose than how much you | | | | The 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 more | | | | make the figures down on the scales, it can be |
| First, the contestants of The Biggest Loser go | | | | dangerous. 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 rid | | | | still holding a lot of fat inside your body after |
| of the weight, they lose weight fast, but when | | | | losing a lot of muscles and water along with the |
| starvation and numerous hours-a-day exercise | | | | fat. |
| stops, the weight piles back on. | | | | The danger of fast weight loss |
| "Any diet or situation that reduces energy intake | | | | Finally, The Biggest Loser's fast weight loss is |
| for long enough will result in weight loss." says an | | | | devastating 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 have | | | | disease |
| 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 lose | | | | In conclusion, it is the wrong way to lose weight |
| Second, what more important is not about how | | | | fast like what The Biggest Loser do, which dose |
| much weight you lose but WHAT you lose and is | | | | more harm than good. The price paid for the |
| about your BODY COMPOSITION which refers to | | | | weight you lose can be your health. You can lose |
| the amount of relative fat to muscles you have in | | | | a 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 on | | | | Successful weight loss is sustainable fat loss and |
| fat weight you are actually changing the | | | | judged on body composition. |