Finally!! A variety show that spreads all the physiologically and nutritionally correct messages about weight loss! Kudos to Mediacorp and Health Promotion Board!! (can’t help but wonder what took them so long to realise that TV shows are the best channel to spread messages…)
Anyway, the show is called “Lose to Win”, on Channel 5, every Wednesday, 9pm, premiered on 21 October 2009. They feature a group of overweight participants who signed themselves up to this 12 weeks program to compete to be the “biggest” loser. Much like the US reality show “The Biggest Loser”.
Throughout the show, individual participants were interviewed and methods to keep slim were shared here and there by experts like dietician, fitness instructors, and nutritionist.
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Here are some messages they’ve mentioned:
- The basic principle of weight loss is to exhaust more energy than consumption through food. The message was taught to the participants by making them participate in routine exercises and learn the right ways to eat in order for deficit of calories to occur.
- Eating late at night is the same as eating at any other time of the day. It’s not the timing of consumption that makes us fat, but the type of food that we eat. As a matter of fact, should we have the habit of eating dinner early and sleeping late, the period of foodless time is longer than between our lunch and breakfast, which could potentially lead to starvation response (a lowered metabolism). What’s worse is to skip breakfast!! ‘Cause that will only make our body increase the possibility of conserving the next meal.
- Fast food is more fattening than normal outside food due to the high calories content, which is caused by the high processing and deep fried nature of some fast food.
Do tune in to the show! It’s definitely more worthy of your time than some commercialized slimming show that gives you iffy information (which could potentially kill you…).
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