{"id":201485,"date":"2025-10-15T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201485\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:31:10","slug":"its-not-just-you-bad-food-habits-are-hard-to-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201485\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Just You\u2014Bad Food Habits Are Hard To Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Remember \u201cThe Biggest Loser\u201d\u2014the show where people tried to lose as much weight as quickly as possible for a big cash prize? The premise of the show was that weight loss was about willpower: With enough discipline, anyone can have the body they want.<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s approach was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AQGCPZ2VC0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">problematic,<\/a> but how does its attitude toward weight loss match our current understanding of health and metabolism? The authors of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/18570\/9780593332306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Food Intelligence<\/a>, nutrition scientist Kevin Hall, who studied \u201cBiggest Loser\u201d contestants at the NIH; and science writer Julia Belluz, join Host Flora Lichtman and answer listener questions about nutrition, diet fads, and metabolism.<\/p>\n<p>Read an excerpt of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/articles\/food-intelligence-book-excerpt-biggest-loser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign Up For The Week In Science Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with the week\u2019s essential science news headlines, plus stories that offer extra joy and awe.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn border\" style=\"padding: 12px 28px; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/3p50t_qhE0W_H-H634sDrg2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tDonate To Science Friday<\/p>\n<p>Invest in quality science journalism by making a donation to Science Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<a class=\"btn border no-ajaxy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/donate-form\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donate<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember \u201cThe Biggest Loser\u201d\u2014the show where people tried to lose as much weight as quickly as possible for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-201485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}