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Foreign Correspondent: Globesity

Foreign Correspondent returns to look at how obesity is problematic for more than just developed economies.

Foreign Correspondent returns with 1 hour documentaries from next Tuesday, beginning with “Fat’s New Frontier,” a look at how obesity is problematic for more than just developed economies like the US. UK and Australia.

This startling Foreign Correspondent special exposes the shocking explosion of global obesity in places where just a few decades ago hunger was a headline health concern. We’ve travelled to China where the consumption of sugar and oil has led to an exponential expansion of waistlines; to Brazil where global food companies have fundamentally altered traditional diets and sent the national scales spinning; to India where it’s predicted 100 Million people will be suffering diabetes in the not too distant future and on to Mexico, the biggest consumer of soft drink in the world, where diabetes is already the number one killer and where the weight problem is so big, special programs have been developed offering free exercise classes and stomach reduction surgery.

8:30pm Tuesday on ABC1.

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