Dispatches - The Truth About Your Food 4/5

Journalist Jane Moore examines how much food we're really eating and puts the spotlight on the food industry to reveal what effect our increased dining-out habit is having on our health.

Moore takes a group of children undercover to find out just how much fat is on the menu for kids in Britain's favourite family restaurants. She meets a family who insist that despite eating healthily and exercising they seem unable to shift their excess weight.

With the help of a fridge-cam and a little secret surveillance, Dispatches attempts to unearth the root cause of their problem. The programme also features a company boss who insists his genes make him fat and the belly-dancer who cannot shake the idea that her metabolism is to blame for her weight gain.

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[crackwhip]

Some people have fat genes and some just have fat jeans

[xBonesAreBeautiful]

now im afraid of eating out..

[shonhubble]

I'm not drawing conclusions or anything, but I sure have noticed with all these BBC weight loss shows the people involved can really knock a few back! Not so bad in this episode but in many others they talk about it... I learned the word "tipple" thanks to these shows lol

[baozytools]

0.57 looks like jonah hill ... LOL

but really, fuck genetics, you just eat too much mate

[memoremzi]

Holistic way my villo to you Mr Bob Cotton. I wonder how much money you are getting from this :S

[Lakasieli]

@TheSnuffy1994 it's probably just a good excuse, maybe they don't want to make an effort and if they tell themselves they have the fat gene, they don't have to feel bad about eating too much and other people can't judge them cause it's not their fault :P

[TheSnuffy1994]

Why would anyone "hope" to have the fat gene? So you don't have to do anything about it? If I was fat, i would rather just hear: You CAN lose weight if you diet and exercise!!

[salemgirl123]

wow...the fat genes.. really?..-w-

[no8no2]

wow, bob cotton, defensive much?

[junkrat1]

Yesss, now being skinny isn't looking to bad. Time to start slamming some of those high calory foods down!

:D

[flop5]

"I'm hoping I have the fat gene." Really??

[MissChiliPudding]

what did people say was the reason of them being fat before genes were discovered? probably another preposterous excuse