Insight (1995)
Fat Fighters
TV-G
2013 E15 May 27, 2013 60mFight the bulge? Or fight the discrimination?
"The medical system is buckling under the sheer weight of the 60 per cent of people that are overweight and obese."
'We live in a fat phobic culture."
Australians are getting fatter. And experts say diets just don’t work in the long term.
But should we be looking at this debate differently? Can you be fat and healthy? And are people resorting to surgery too soon?
This week on Insight: people who hate their fat, people who flaunt it, and people who’ve had it cut out.
"The medical system is buckling under the sheer weight of the 60 per cent of people that are overweight and obese."
'We live in a fat phobic culture."
Australians are getting fatter. And experts say diets just don’t work in the long term.
But should we be looking at this debate differently? Can you be fat and healthy? And are people resorting to surgery too soon?
This week on Insight: people who hate their fat, people who flaunt it, and people who’ve had it cut out.