A study of Biggest Loser contestants showed that in thirty weeks of filming, average weight dropped from 329 pounds to 202 pounds. That’s an average decrease of 127 pounds! Body fat dropped, on average, from 49 percent to 28 percent. Almost all of the weight lost was fat mass, as opposed to lean tissue, or “fat-free mass”. (There is inevitably some lean tissue lost along with fat, but this is generally skin and connective tissue, not necessarily muscle.) Wow! Amazing! Unfortunately, those results simply didn’t last. Six years after their almost miraculous weight loss, thirteen of the fourteen
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