- Target:
- World Health Organization or any related organization
- Region:
- GLOBAL
- Website:
- anti-thebiggestloser.org
Recently Time.com reported about Ryan Benson, winner of season one of The Biggest Loser (US), as following:
"But while the message of the show is inspiring, it is also unrealistic. The Biggest Loser achieves rapid transformations—contestants often drop more than 9 kg in a week—through calorie restriction, endless exercise and no small amount of dehydration that occurs behind the scenes. Ryan Benson, 38, an actor who works for a DVD distributor in Los Angeles, lost 55 kg to win the first season in January 2005 but says he regained 14.5 kg within five days simply by drinking water."
This is incredible and points to the fact that when any person loses weight rapidly, (faster than 1-2 pounds a week) normally the weight loss is mostly due to water loss, and also lean mass loss.
Last week the fad diets are called to be regulated by the Australian government. The Biggest Loser is doing even worse than the diets because they not only encourage people buy their liquid meal replacement but also restrict energy intake as less as 1100 calorie and do numerous and dangerous workouts to burn about 1000 calories a day, that make their net calories only 100 calorie a day--how dangerous it is!
We, the undersigned, call on the World Health Organization or any related organization to ban the reality shows The Biggest Loser because they encourage a false message that rapid weight loss is right, in reality, it does more harm than good, leading health problems which are both physical and psychological.
Every legitimate health and fitness professional- doctor, personal trainer and dietitian recommends healthily and safely lose 1-2 pound a week.
Since these shows are "reality shows", people take everything they see as reality. They first show in US then Australia and UK, and now it's going to Asian countries - they are influencing many many people who do not have the knowledge of true health everyday just like a plague spreading over the world.
They are unrealistic reality shows and unhealthy games. They are not 'motivating' or 'inspiring' - they are DAMAGING! They are a DISGRACE!
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The Ban The Biggest Loser (including Couples) petition to World Health Organization or any related organization was written by Anti-The Biggest Loser and is in the category Health at GoPetition.