Healthcare Triage: Reality Show Stars: They’re Not Just Like Us

There’s a lot of news this week touting a study that suggests exercise is the key to maintaining a weight loss. Welp. Guess what? It wasn’t a great study. There were 14 participants, all of whom appeared on the TV reality show The Biggest Loser. We’ve talked before about the weight loss practices on that show, and how they aren’t really reproducible in real life. Here we go again.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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