When Dr. Jeffrey Levine and I first met more than a decade ago, our professional paths seemed unlikely to converge. He, a medical doctor and family physician, and I, a ...
When NBC’s reality show The Biggest Loser premiered in 2004, producers weren’t sure if they could sell America on the idea of weight loss being fun. But what started as a network experiment with less ...
The Netflix three-part documentary, Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser, explores the experiences of contestants on the long-running reality show. Sarah Gilbert, who competed on season ...
Tracey Yukich went through quite a scare after signing up for season 8 of The Biggest Loser in 2009. Yukich, a mom of four, started gaining weight after becoming pregnant and struggling with ...
In 2009, Danny Cahill became The Biggest Loser’s season 8 champion after dropping 239 lbs., the most weight lost by any contestant in the show’s history at the time. But within seven years, he ...
A recent docuseries on Netflix, "Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser," and new book by obesity researcher Kevin Hall, have sparked conversations about the reality show's weight-loss tactics, ...
The Biggest Loser, NBC's controversial weight-loss competition, aired for 18 seasons over 16 years. The show put contestants through a 30-week boot camp, awarding $250,000 to whoever lost the most ...
Former contestants of one of America's most gruelling reality TV shows, The Biggest Loser, have let the cameras back in, revealing the horrors of losing weight for money—from hair loss to urinating ...
Ali Vincent became the first woman to win “The Biggest Loser” during season 5 in 2008. Then-32-year-old Vincent lost 112 pounds on the NBC reality show, dropping from 234 to 122 pounds. The ...
The Biggest Loser finally left the spotlight in 2020, but not after the one-time ratings hit transformed many contestants’ lives in ways NBC wouldn’t want you to know. The competition — which ran for ...
No surprise that Jillian Michaels is keeping it quite real when it comes to her feelings about the Netflix documentary Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser. Accused of using questionable ...