Fitness: What we learned from The Biggest Loser

The Biggest Loser was more than a reality TV show. It was a petri dish for the study of obesity, in particular how diet and exercise impact weight loss.
The show was created with a TV audience in mind, but the research community is the biggest winner — benefitting from 17 seasons worth of contestants from which to gather data.
So far, over a dozen studies have used the popular TV show, which debuted in 2005, to analyze the physiological and psycho-social aspects of rapid and/or significant