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Remember the reality tv show Biggest Loser? The one where trainers barked and contestants cried as they worked their bodies to exhaustion. Starving themselves as they ate double digit fractions of their normal diets and watched the pounds drip off in rivulets. Kevin Hall, a scientist at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Time Magazine writes, studied 14 Biggest Loser contestants and found out a devastating truth. “Overtime, 13 of the 14 contestants Hall studied gained, on average, 66% of the weight they’d lost on the show, and four were heavier than they were before the competition,” he told Alexandra Sifferlin from Time. Hall figured out that the contestants’ weight-loss actually triggered a change in their resting metabolic rate. A change that was not for the better. When the contestants lost mass amounts of weight their metabolism actually began to slow down. Supposedly this is the body’s natural reaction to protect itself in the case of starvation. The body starts slowi

I’m Jeanay Jensen and this is my health and intercultural news blog. Here I plan to talk about news articles that take you to another place and into the story of another person. Or stories that teach you more about the world we live in and what new studies have found about how our minds and bodies work. This sight is about health and culture, be it our own or others. "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley