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(NewsNation) — "The Biggest Loser" Netflix docuseries "Fit For TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser," has drawn plentifulness of mixed reviews, including from contestants who were connected the show.
"The Biggest Loser" was a immense TV deed that ran for 17 seasons and helped hundreds of radical collectively suffer thousands of pounds.
However, contestants allege successful the caller docuseries that they gained each the value backmost and were near with issues resulting from appearing connected the series.
Dr. Robert Huizenga, who was the superior doc connected the show, joined "CUOMO" connected Tuesday to speech astir the backlash the amusement has received implicit allegations successful the docuseries, including that contestants' metabolisms were permanently damaged.
A National Institutes of Health study successful 2017 followed 14 contestants and recovered that galore of them regained overmuch oregon each the value they mislaid connected the show.
Huizenga's 'Biggest Loser' regret
Huizenga told "CUOMO" that his biggest regret was not overseeing the NIH study, which helium said caused "so overmuch symptom and grief to the contestants."
"It was truthful heartbreaking erstwhile they came retired and said their metabolisms were permanently damaged," helium said. "That was recovered to not beryllium true."
"Basically, they made a captious error. They did the metabolic complaint connected the archetypal time of the show. These contestants were coming from each implicit the country. They were truthful nervous, truthful excited, that they couldn't sleep.
"They were truthful amped up that their metabolic rates, we believe, were higher" than normal.
Huizenga says survey of contestants' metabolic rates was mode off
Huizenga and his squad said they concluded the accusation astir the metabolic rates was disconnected by comparing patients who had undergone bariatric surgery.
"The archetypal metabolic complaint they typed successful was mode off. Subsequently, we spot different doctors trying to reproduce that study, and they could not," helium said.
Huizenga said contestants called him crying, asking if their metabolism was ruined for life. It's different achy reminder of however radical were affected by the show.
"We were trying to learn, we were trying to help," Huizenga said.
Huizenga said helium checked connected contestants
"The Biggest Loser" ended up being a currency cow, but immoderate contestants felt they could've utilized a batch much enactment aft the appearances.
Danny Cahill, the play 8 victor who mislaid 239 pounds, said successful the docuseries that they didn't get immoderate aftercare oregon enactment connected however to support the value disconnected erstwhile they returned home.
Huizenga said helium didn't marque immoderate wealth disconnected the programme and did his champion to enactment successful interaction with contestants.
"I did attempt, arsenic I deliberation each these contestants volition verify, to telephone them each up and to effort to spot however everybody was doing implicit time," helium said.
"And we charted them for those archetypal six years. I conscionable privation I could person done more, and the amusement could person done more."
