60 Minutes: Apr 8
60 Minutes will ask whether bodyweight is pre-determined?
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This Sunday night, 60 Minutes will ask whether bodyweight is pre-determined?
The Big Picture
It’s the curse of every dieter. Shed a few kilos. Then pile them all back on again. We’ve always blamed ourselves, we should have kept up with the exercise, shown more self-control. But researchers in Melbourne have come up with another more “palatable” explanation. They’re discovered that a person’s weight is predestined, that genetically your body will fight to put the weight back on again. All without you even knowing about it. There is some good news though: the new findings are turning the science of weight loss on its head.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Howard Sacre
Ships of Shame
They’re sold to us as floating pleasure domes – luxury hotels on the sea – where every day is perfect and the party never stops. But scratch the surface of the cruise ship industry and the truth isn’t so dazzling. Behind the pina coladas and the smiles lies a murky world of sexual assault, drugs and violence, even murder. Incredibly, one passenger goes missing overboard every two weeks. Now, you’d think the big cruise companies would be desperate to get their industry shipshape. You couldn’t be more wrong.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producer: Gareth Harvey
Living on the Edge
Bands don’t get much bigger or louder than Aerosmith. For 40 years, Stephen Tyler and his crew have been rocking stadiums full of adoring fans. Backstage, though, things haven’t been quite so harmonious. There’s been bitter feuds, battles with drug addiction and major health scares. Yet through it all, they’ve kept performing. Their live concerts are legendary. But as Lara Logan from the American 60 Minutes program discovered, the real entertainment happens behind the scenes.
Reporter: Lara Logan, CBS 60 Minutes
Producer: John Hamlin
7:30pm Sunday on Nine.
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How sad to see 60 minutes go the diet stories. Your weight is not pre determined. When half of the world don’t have enough food to see if their weight is pre determined, i think this is a first world story when tv shows are running out of content. People are overweight in Australia because we are lazy, have too much of the wrong food,don’t exercise enough and look for excuses such as i have a low metabolism. This story could also be dangerous as people are going to go around and say that they can do nothing to lose weight as it is pre determined.What rubbish.