[5kgLifter]

Anyone else in the UK watching the progam on ITV1 at 4pm Mon-Fri called The Biggest Loser? Talk about a way to teach people really bad habits about weight loss. They work in pairs to lose weight each week, and the two couples that have lost the lowest bodyweight percentage get relegated to be eliminated, only 1 actually does get eliminated (but I missed exactly how they go about that process). But the point is, when one of the two people in the couple is ill, such as dislocated shoulder doing press ups, the other one has to lose more weight to make their percentage of loss higher. Some this week, Friday is their weigh in day, were losing over 14 lbs, others oddly only lost 2 lbs; but the loss of 14+ lbs is not healthy. They do, 2 hours of cardio a day, and 3 hours of weights, if I remember correctly. And one woman passed out (well fainted) twice and her blood sugar was found to be low, and the trainer thinks that it's all in her mind, and therefore her body is responding by producing such symptoms; since I'm not sure they eat before their 2 hour cardio session, it couls just be low blood sugar brought about by the cardio. To top it all, they make them go all out for 60 seconds, and I'm sure that most on this forum know that even the fittest person will find it almost impossible to go at their all-out rate fro an entire minute.

All this just to sensationalise a TV program and give bad advice that people will follow.

TV show or not, people should not be treated with double standards; meaning, I would never condone a workout like that for a healthy person beginning with fitness, so I wouldn't give it to a seriously overweight person either.

This is giving a really bad message to people, anyone have any thoughts on this...