Fatbusters. If current trends prevail, more than one-quarter of British adults will be caught up in the obesity epidemic by 2010. As the demand for effective weight-loss methods intensifies, the science behind obesity is being closely scrutinised in the hope that a wonder drug can be produced. This film shows how metabolism, hormones and, increasingly, genetic make-up have been involved in recent research.
Producer Jackie Higgins ; Executive editor John Lynch