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Episode 4
Examination of the weight-loss industry. Jacques Peretti asks why the world's population continues to get fatter, despite the billions that are spent on weight loss every year.
In the final instalment of this four-part series, Jacques Peretti asks why the world's population continues to get fatter, despite the fact that billions are spent on weight loss every year. He travels to America to investigate the parallels between food companies and the tobacco industry and meets the activists battling to introduce laws to tax fatty and sugary foods - and facing fierce resistance from industry.
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The diet feeding tube
Duration: 02:19
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Jacques Peretti |
Writer | Jacques Peretti |
Series Producer | Mike Radford |
Executive Producer | David Wise |
Producer | Mike Radford |
Director | Mike Radford |
Broadcast
- Thu 29 Aug 2013 21:00
Jacques Peretti: Can you be fit and fat?
"Losing so easily was even more humiliating than wearing the boot camp's pink T-shirt!"