I watched it some last season, but only caught the finale of this season that aired last night. Unbelievable! At least a couple people on the show lost over 50% of their original weight.
The winner, Erik, went from over 400 pounds to under 195. Look at these before and after photos:
www.nbc.com/.../erik_before1.jpgwww.nbc.com/.../erik_finale10.jpg
Hard to even believe this is the same guy!
Former Member
Well, no one is ever going to tell me what I can and cannot eat/drink. So with that said, I'm off to have an Angus Burger at my local pub. No police state for me!!! People who shove things in their mouth KNOW what they are doing; if they want to exit this world early, so be it. And the health care industry can blame it on obese people; at least we are contributing.
Hmmm...maybe an Angus Burger and Onion Rings.
Donna
You go Donna! :drink:
I can just see the next big crime drama series on tv now; TFP- New York: follow the adventures of an elite group of police food scientists - the Trans-Fat Police. This week's episode sees the squad execute a series of search warrants on home garbage cans leading to the epic confrontation with a group of little-league moms serving TF contaminated hotdogs at a neighbourhood tournament. Will our heroes survive the awesome counterattack of the enraged Louisville-slugger wielding moms? Tune in and see!
Episode Two:
Geek/SCYFreestyler/HHowland/Fortress convene and swoop to Washington and Canada in Tom Cruise's private jet, dumping vats of TF on the very thin, tofu-eating, marijuana-growing greenies. They reciprocate by hiring and sending some_girl/smart_girl to Denmark to bring back the Danish strongmen to break the knees of the anti-government lard-endorsers. Gull is called in by beeper to survey the Tonya Harding-like damage and collect forensic evidence, including evidence of mood-altering drugs. He fires all CSI personnel on the scene who smoke. Who will be charged and for what crime? Tune in next week ....
Of course, once you are past breeding age, Darwin isn't too concerned.
With an upside of 30,000 to 100,000 prevented premature deaths, what exactly is the downside that balances that? From the reports I've heard there are no mobs of consumers in Denmark upset about lack of access to trans fats there.
Now, explain how removing trans fats is gonna stop those folks from loading up like it's the last meal they are gonna eat?
Hmm, removing trans fats will not solve every problem in the world, so saving a few tens of thousands of lives is clearly a waste of time. I question this logic.
Top nutritionists at Harvard have stated as follows:
"By our most conservative estimate, replacement of partially hydrogenated fat in the U.S. diet with natural unhydrogenated vegetable oils would prevent approximately 30,000 premature coronary deaths per year, and epidemiologic evidence suggests this number is closer to 100,000 premature deaths annually."
Is trans fat the sole source of those deaths.
If replacing the trans fats with natural unhydrogenated vegetable oils prevents the deaths then the implication is that yes, the trans fats are the sole source of those deaths.
That's an estimate of the number of deaths that would be prevented. Look, trans fats are bad. No question. But as others have pointed out, why not ban tobacco products as well? Obviously there is not a powerful and well-funded trans fat lobby.
Biggest loser? Geek in January at Charlotte. Just two words for you: Shock and awe, buddy.
To make it even more explicit: there are things that have both costs and benefits, and there are things that don't appear to have any significant benefits, perceived or otherwise, while having significant costs.
If you ban tobacco or alcohol a lot of people will feel that you have taken something away from them that they value. Even more so for cars or swimming pools. In Denmark they banned trans fats and no one really noticed, the food producers adjusted their recipes and that was that.
I did a quick google search and in 2002 there were 3842 deaths due to drowning in the USA.
And according to the CDC drowning is the seventh leading cause of unintentional injury deaths for all ages and the second leading cause of all injury deaths in children aged 1--14 years.
Maybe we should ban pools as well.
maybe we should teach swimming in grade schools. many swimming programs are being cut from the public school system. nyc has to close stretches of beach in the summer due to lack of lifeguards.
trans fats are only popular because they are cheap...they don't make anything taste better.
Interestingly, there were no deaths due to marijuana, making smoking pot safer than swimming and eating a few sticks of margarine. So, ban margarine and swimming and legalize pot? Hmmm....
now your on to something!
any swim meets in amsterdam?
