diets | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sat, 28 May 2016 09:23:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg diets | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Biggest Losers, Grace, and Silver Linings https://anitamathias.com/2016/05/27/biggest-losers-grace-silver-linings/ https://anitamathias.com/2016/05/27/biggest-losers-grace-silver-linings/#comments Fri, 27 May 2016 21:19:56 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=66400 I read the New York Times’ distressing account of The Biggest Loser show. Because of their rapid weight loss, the participants’ metabolisms dramatically slowed down, as happens with any diet. Researchers discovered that, six years on, the metabolism of the contestants continued slowing down, and they continued gaining weight disproportionate to their calorie intake, their […]

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