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Diet Drug Scandal Kills Biggest Loser!
Globe
|July 31 2017
Doc accused of feeding pills to fatties
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NBC is pulling the plug on The Biggest Loser amid shocking charges staffers stuffed show fatties with illegal weight-loss pills!
Now the show’s resident doctor, Robert Huizenga, is claiming the show was killed — and his career was ruined — because of doping charges by 2008 contestant Joelle Gwynn, who filed suit against the program.
She insists trainer Bob Harper illegally gave her and other hulks the appetite suppressors Adderall, normally prescribed for attention deficit patients, and FDA-banned ephedra capsules.
This story is from the July 31 2017 edition of Globe.
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