re: Study of Biggest Losers finds that the body wants and will fight to be Fat

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Interview with a local obesity researcher about the study. Most of yall will hate what she has to say.

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SO Wink I read the interview and the NY times piece which speaks about Leptin and its role. Do you not agree that reverse dieting after the show to allow leptin levels to reset would have been a much smarter approach?

Or that training for pure weight loss instead of BF% loss caused many of the problems that are affecting the former contestants metabolism? I mean its very clear as a season progresses that the contestants are losing extreme amounts of muscle, sometimes looking like they are almost losing as much muscle as they are fat. Do you not see a problem with this and did DR Ryan not see a big problem with the data based on these factors?

DO ya'll not take into the account these types of things before releasing studies like this that essentially are making excuses for those that are overweight instead of finding ways to help hormones like leptin stay high while dieting?


Please don't take it as an attack on the researchers or the study because it isn't. I was simply wondering what all goes into something like this before it is released.