Trending badgeTrendingPosted 2 hours agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret DownHere's What "Fit For TV" Left Out Or Straight Up Got Wrong About "The Biggest Loser""Unfortunately, what they're telling you the contestants are doing and what they actually have the contestants doing are two different things," one former contestant alleged.by by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeed Staff, by Natasha JokicBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Content warning: This post contains discussion of disordered eating and anti-fatness. Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser has topped the Netflix charts with its critical reexamination of one of the most toxic reality TV programs of all time. Netflix Still, there's much that the documentary didn't get to in its three-episode run. Here's what Fit For TV misses in its look at both The Biggest Loser and anti-fat bias writ large: 1. The docuseries does little to interrogate the basic premise of The Biggest Loser, which is that weight is synonymous with health. The American Medical Association cautions against using BMI as a sole determinant of health, with some instead opting for a "Health At Every Size" framework. NBC NewsWire / NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images 2. From the get-go, the show was designed to expect an unhealthy amount of weight loss. Both the Mayo Clinic and the CDC recommend aiming to lose about one to two pounds per week. And this isn't new information - this medical advice was also reported in the 2009 New York Times piece criticizing the show. Taylor Hill / Getty Images The clips of the contestants' double-digit weight loss week after week brought to mind the criticism Kim Kardashian faced when she said she lost 16 pounds in 21 days to fit into Marilyn Monroe's dress for the 2022 Met Gala. At the time, Elaina Efird, RD, CEDRD, CSSD, the lead registered dietitian at The Kahm Clinic in Burlington, Vermont, told BuzzFeed, "Losing 16 pounds in 21 days is technically possible, but only through extreme and VERY unhealthy measures such as starvation or semi-starvation. It is not sustainable at all and should NEVER be the goal or attempted by an individual... My message for people wanting to attempt to do what Kim K did is DO NOT DO THIS. It is a terrible example that she is setting, and her behavior is perpetuating eating disorders."Responding to the criticism, Kardashian told the New York Times, "To me it was like, 'OK, Christian Bale can do it for a movie role and that is acceptable.' Even Renée Zellweger gained weight for a role. It's all the same to me. I wasn't saying, 'Hey everyone, why don't you go lose this weight in a short period of time?' ...I didn't do anything unhealthy." 3. Fit For TV covered the defamation lawsuit that Dr. Robert Huizenga, the show's medical consultant for 17 seasons, filed against former contestant Joelle Gwynn for alleging to the New York Post that the show "drugged" her so she'd lose weight, which he denied. However, the lawsuit was dismissed in 2019, with U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruling that he couldn't show actual malice. Netflix In her opinion, Swain wrote, "[Huizenga] has not averred any facts regarding his conversations or interactions with Gwynn, or even about the existence or nature of the allegedly illicit pills, that would permit the Court to draw a plausible inference that the Gwynn Statements were untrue, such that Gwynn acted with knowledge of their falsity when making them... Plaintiff's general allegations that he is known for his 'non-drug exercise-centric fat loss approach' and that he and others informed the Post 'that contestants were not given illegal drugs' lack sufficient specificity to rebut Gwynn's assertions or to plausibly raise an inference that Gwynn's statements were inherently improbable or made with the knowledge that they were false."On Episode 3 of Fit for TV, Huizenga said, "The New York Post took advantage of some of the contestants who were understandably freaked out by what the New York Times was saying. They took that fear that the contestants were feeling, and they said things that, very frankly, were absolutely untrue... Then a reporter called the LAPD, and they gave the police a huge tip that illegal drugs were being used. And the police have to follow up on that. So all of a sudden in the paper, the police are examining a drug problem on the show with narcotics. No one alleges ever narcotics."Gwynn also said that the New York Post took her quotes "out of context." She said, "I addressed several issues, and they decided to make that a highlight." 4. The New York Times reported that contestants had to sign a waiver that said, "No warranty, representation or guarantee has been made as to the qualifications or credentials of the medical professionals who examine me or perform any procedures on me in connection with my participation in the series, or their ability to diagnose medical conditions that may affect my fitness to participate in the series." They also reportedly had t