![]() ![]() And some of us are more genetically predisposed to this overconsumption than others. Researchers typically say that obesity is an “energy balance disorder” - more calories (energy) consumed than expended. There is a conventional answer to the “why we get fat” question: We eat too much. It described what happened to the “Biggest Loser” contestants but not the most important aspect of why: What had made these people fat to begin with? What established the weight they seemed fated to return to? How did the problem get started? ![]() ![]() The hoopla the study generated, and the study itself, was missing the answer to an important question. For anyone with weight to lose, the message was dismal. The findings implied that to maintain their weight loss they would have to remain hungry and calorie-deprived for the rest of their years, and they might still regain the weight they’d lost and then some. The researchers followed contestants from the “The Biggest Loser” television show as these formerly obese contestants proceeded to regain most of the massive amounts of weight they had lost on the show.Īs reported in the journal Obesity, these “Biggest Loser” contestants were the victims of “metabolic compensation.” As they tried to keep their weight under control, their bodies remained particularly resistant to expending energy. That’s not news, although it was reconfirmed last week in a particularly mediagenic fashion in a study published by National Institutes of Health researchers. ![]()
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