{"id":76767,"date":"2016-05-23T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/former-biggest-loser-contestants-claim-trainers-supplied-drugs-to-aid-weight-loss\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:05:13","slug":"former-biggest-loser-contestants-claim-trainers-supplied-drugs-to-aid-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/former-biggest-loser-contestants-claim-trainers-supplied-drugs-to-aid-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Former &#8216;Biggest Loser&#8217; contestants claim trainers supplied drugs to aid weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lezlye Donahue survived Hurricane Katrina. Going on \u201cThe Biggest Loser,\u201d she says, was worse than that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my biggest nightmare,\u201d she says, \u201cand it\u2019s with me to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following a controversial study that claims to explain\u00a0why almost all \u201cBiggest Loser\u201d contestants regain massive amounts of weight<\/a>, numerous ex-Losers reached out to The Post to dispute its findings \u2014 exclusively revealing that the show encouraged contestants to take street drugs while starving themselves and to lie about how much weight they were losing.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Image<\/h2>\n<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/images.foxnews.com\/content\/fox-news\/health\/2016\/05\/23\/former-biggest-loser-contestants-claim-trainers-supplied-drugs-to-aid-weight-loss\/_jcr_content\/article-text\/article-par-3\/images\/image.img.jpg\/880\/558\/1464008599761.jpg?ve=1tl=1\" alt=\"Trainer Bob Harper takes part in a panel discussion of NBC Universal's show The Biggest Loser during the 2013 Winter Press Tour for the Television Critics Association.\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Expand \/ Contract<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trainer Bob Harper takes part in a panel discussion of NBC Universal&#8217;s show &#8220;The Biggest Loser&#8221; during the 2013 Winter Press Tour for the Television Critics Association.<\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"source\">(REUTERS\/Gus Ruelas)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The federally funded study, conducted by Dr. Kevin Hall at the National Institutes of Health and published two weeks ago, says changing metabolic rates, hormone levels, and genetic predispositions explain post-show weight gain.<\/p>\n<section class=\"mod-25\">\n<h2>More on this&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Contestants on &#8216;The Biggest Loser&#8217; regain weight due to damaged metabolism, study finds<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>&#8216;Biggest Loser&#8217; winner reveals she regained all the weight<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Facebook users recruit friends for diet, supplement programs \u2014 but is it legit?<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>What\u2019s missing, former Losers tell The Post, is any examination of the show\u2019s secret and brutal tactics, which include providing illicit drugs to contestants and submitting them to questionable medical exams by the show\u2019s resident doctor, Rob Huizenga, known as \u201cDr. H.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huizenga collaborated with Hall on the NIH\u2019s study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were passing out in Dr. H\u2019s office at the finale weigh-in,\u201d says Season 2\u2019s Suzanne Mendonca. \u201cOn my season, five people had to be rushed to the hospital. He knew exactly what we were doing and never tried to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click for more from The New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lezlye Donahue survived Hurricane Katrina. Going on \u201cThe Biggest Loser,\u201d she says, was worse than that. \u201cIt\u2019s my biggest nightmare,\u201d she says, \u201cand it\u2019s with me to this day.\u201d Following a controversial study that claims to explain\u00a0why almost all \u201cBiggest Loser\u201d contestants regain massive amounts of weight, numerous ex-Losers reached out to The Post to <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/former-biggest-loser-contestants-claim-trainers-supplied-drugs-to-aid-weight-loss\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}