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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 12 sec.) ; 314932326 bytes |
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*This program contains animal treatment that may distress viewers*This startling series sees eight overweight Brits head to four parts of the world where obesity levels are shockingly high. Will their experience make them think twice about their own lifestyles? Each episode sees two big Brits live with even bigger local obese people in the USA, Argentina, Greece and Kuwait. They eat what their hosts eat and share their lifestyle.They also get a sense of why each country has become a hotspot for obesity. But most alarmingly, during their stay they are exposed to a series of experiences that reveal the dark truth about this life- threatening condition.Snack-guzzling Gary Rowland has ballooned to a whopping 120kg and is the heaviest he has ever been. Nineteen-year-old Amareen Iqbal is 31kg overweight and fears she can't have the family she is dreaming of.Will the shocking reality of living with the morbidly obese Manouskakis family and their 10- year-old daughter, Jenny, on Crete, make Amareen and Gary think about changing their out- of-control ways? One in five Greeks are obese. Jenny's life-threatening weight has reached 120kg, her Australian born mother, Elpedia, weighs 190kg and her father Vangelis weighs 203kg.It's devastating, but will seeing other people suffering be enough to encourage these people to think differently about their own health issues, or will they simply choose to ignore the warnings and continue to abuse their bodies as they did before?PRODUCTION DETAILS:Executive producer: Eamon Hardy; Producer and Director Sarah MacFarlane; Series producers: Suzy Jaffe & Angela Norris. A BBC production |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2011-01-12 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Food habits -- Psychological aspects.
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Obesity -- Health aspects.
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Overweight persons -- Psychology.
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Polycystic ovary syndrome.
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Streaming video
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Iqbal, Amareen, contributor
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Rowland, Gary, contributor
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