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Obesity

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Cherry Healey meets young people who are having health problems associated with their weight such as Clair and Tom, and the medical experts who are treating them.

Series in which Cherry Healey investigates the alarming rise in numbers of young people suffering from illnesses associated with older people due to alcohol, drugs and obesity. We all know that drinking, drugs and fast food are bad for you, but these days a life of excess isn't just leaving young people hungover, it's accelerating their age - hit by chronic conditions usually the preserve of pensioners, their young bodies and minds are ready for retirement.

In the final programme, Cherry meets young people who are dangerously obese and the surgeons who are treating them. Clair gained weight through a combination of stress and medication and has now developed a range of obesity-related illnesses like gout, asthma and bad joints and is on more medication than your average OAP. Clair is having gastric bypass surgery, a major and irreversible step as a last ditch resort to control her obesity.

Tom also gained weight through medication and developed non-alcoholic liver disease. To cure his condition, he has been fitted with a gastric balloon to try and shed some of his 22 stone and six months on he has already lost five stone.

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Thu 7 Nov 2013 20:00
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Icona Pop

    I Love It (feat. Charli XCX)

  • Childish Gambino

    Heartbeat

  • Stooshe

    See Me Like This

  • Bruno Mars

    Treasure

  • Daft Punk

    Giorgio By Moroder

  • Gabrielle Aplin

    Salvation

  • Florence + The Machine

    Never Let Me Go

  • Sky Ferreira

    Lost In My Bedroom

  • Disclosure

    F For You

  • Caro Emerald

    Liquid Lunch

  • Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

    Tapes& Money

  • OneRepublic

    Counting Stars

  • Lana Del Rey

    Summertime Sadness

  • London Grammar

    Strong

  • The xx

    Sunset

  • Hot Chip

    Motion Sickness

  • The 1975

    Chocolate

  • Miley Cyrus

    Wrecking Ball

  • Demi Lovato

    Skyscaper

  • Tom Odell

    Grow Old With Me

  • John Newman

    Cheating

  • C2C

    Who Are You (feat. Olivier Daysoul)

  • Gotye

    Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

  • Emeli Sandé

    Next To Me

  • Leanne Mitchell

    Deep Blue Sea

  • Elbow

    Lippy Kids

  • Selena Gomez

    Come & Get It

  • Daft Punk

    Motherboard

  • Jessie J, Big Sean & Dizzee Rascal

    Wild

  • The xx

    Unfold

  • Calvin Harris

    I Need Your Love (feat. Ellie Goulding)

  • Jay Sean

    Do You Remember

  • Olly Murs

    Right Place Right Time

  • Electric Guest

    Troubleman

  • Emeli Sandé

    Daddy

  • Courteeners

    Save Rosemary In Time

  • C2C

    Happy (feat. Derek Martin)

  • LMFAO

    Sexy And I Know It

  • AlunaGeorge

    Best Be Believing

  • The Family Rain

    Reason To Die

  • Ne-Yo, David Guetta & Akon

    Play Hard

  • Bastille

    Bad Blood

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Big When I Was Little

  • Bombay Bicycle Club

    How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep

Credits

Presenter Cherry Healey
Director Tom Williams
Executive Producer Claire Faragher
Executive Producer Emma Hindley

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