Supersize vs Superskinny
This series is currently off-air
About the show
Faddy foods, slimming products, diet surgery and extreme weight
loss regimes, the UK has gone diet mad.
But alongside every new celeb diet launch we're continually
bombarded with confusing food scares and health warnings about the
serious dangers of being superslim, so it's no wonder our
relationship with food is becoming increasingly
dysfunctional.
Countless people are heading towards obesity, with a diet reliant
on junk and convenience food while many others are eating too
little in a quest to get a celebrity 'size zero' body.
Supersize vs Superskinny is the ultimate magazine
show about food, weight and body image.
Each hour-long programme will feature a short diet swap between two
contributors - all of whom have been medically assessed prior to
filming - with wildly contrasting eating habits.
The show will see a superskinny undereater swap diet and lifestyle
with an overweight overeater.
The participants couldn't be more different in their attitudes
towards food, but will discover they are both putting their health
in danger with their current diet and lifestyle.
The aim of the five day swap is to make them realise they both have
a dysfunctional relationship with food - that eating too much is
just as bad as undereating.
The swap will kick start a whole new regime of balanced and healthy
eating that is meant to re-educate them and transform their
relationship with food and weight.
After the swap, the contributors both embark on a medically
supervised healthy eating regime. At the end we'll discover
if the two contributors have changed their bad eating habits for
good.
Presented by Dr Christian Jessen (Embarrassing Illnesses).
Alongside the diet swap, the series will also examine the mine
field of issues around weight, food and body image with a series of
consumer related strands to help us get our relationship with food
back in perspective.
Each week our gonzo journalist Anna Richardson will immerse herself
in the world of faddy and celebrity dieting and try out some of its
most radical regimes to expose some uncomfortable truths about the
quest for size zero.
Plus Gillian McKeith embarks on a mission to help reduce the size
of the nation's rears.
There isn't a woman out there who doesn't want a firmer,
smaller, tinier bottom - so what can you do to stop yours growing
out of control?
In this cross-series strand Gillian McKeith will take on Britain's
Biggest Bottoms - over 100 of the very largest - and teach us
everything we need to know to achieve the perfect slim
bum.
