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- Re: How The Biggest Loser Promotes Weight Bias | Dr. Sharma's Obesit From: samuel9888
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Re: How The Biggest Loser Promotes Weight Bias | Dr. Sharma's Obesit
Posted by: "samuel9888" Sam68123@cox.net samuel9888
Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:24 am (PDT)
Sorry, that should have read "the show can be OVER the top" (I missed saying "over" in my original below).
Teresa Merrick, Ph.D.
Bellevue, NE
--- In Supertraining@yahoogroups. , "samuel9888" <Sam68123@..com .> wrote:
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> Hi Linda,
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> I wanted to correct a misconception in your post.
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> ACSM did not perform the study. The panel discussion cited results from the following:
> http://thomsonreuters.com/content/ press_room/ healthcare/ tr_poll_half_ americans_ believe_shows_ positive
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> If you read that article, the results are from those who are regular viewers of such programs. Not people who look in on one or two episodes.
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> Also, one panelist, a nutrition faculty member, said she had been watching the program since season 3, waiting for someone on the show to say something she took issue with from a nutrition standpoint. So far, nothing has come up. She noted that this season, the dietitian seems to be on camera; a person in the discussion audience said that she knew they had always had a dietitian behind the scenes on the show, even though the trainers dispensed the nutrition advice on camera.
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> Sure, the show can be the top and definitely unrealistic; that's why it's on TV--it's not a documentary. However, a person who chooses to take the term "loser" in the title as before the fact insult is probably not quite ready to change.
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> I agree that the media and the medical industry is way too focused on weight and "fatness" and not about the inactivity epidemic we have. The bottom line for death and disease (mortality and morbidity in the epidemiology language) really is about fitness, fitness at any weight.
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> Teresa Merrick, Ph.D.
> Bellevue, NE
> (material deleted)
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