Investigates, Discovers, Questions This week: Fats and Figures
'They lie, they cheat, they con themselves. What they really need is a little will power.'
' I've tried everything and nothing works. After a few weeks Im back up to 14 stone again.'
Every year nearly half of an women in Britain are persuaded to go on diets. But are they being conned or are they perhaps simply conning themselves?
The business of slimming has become a boom industry; more than £l50-million a year is spent on slimming foods alone. Jenny Con-way questions psychiatrists, manufacturers, media-people, models and. above all. would-be and sometimes desperate slimmers. Why the obsession?
Producer DEE DEE GLASS Editor TIM SLESSOR