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HARDtalk: Karen Miller-Kovach, Chief Scientist at Weight Watchers International

26/01/2011

Karen Miller-Kovach, Chief Scientist at Weight Watchers International

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Karen Miller-Kovach, Chief Scientist at Weight Watchers International

Stephen Sackur talks to Karen Miller-Kovach of Weight Watchers International.

Stephen Sackur asks Karen Miller-Kovach, chief scientist at Weight Watchers International, if there is something fundamentally unhealthy about our obsession with weight-loss.

More than a billion people around the world are overweight, and there's talk of a global obesity epidemic. For public health officials, it's cause for grave concern; for the multi-billion dollar diet industry, it's a source of fat profits. HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur asks Karen Miller-Kovach, chief scientist at Weight Watchers International, if there is something fundamentally unhealthy about our growing obsession with diets and weight-loss?

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