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Jacques Peretti asks why the world's population continues to get fatter.

Examination of the weight-loss industry. Jacques Peretti asks why the world's population continues to get fatter, despite the billions that are spent on weight loss every year.

In the final instalment of this four-part series, Jacques Peretti asks why the world's population continues to get fatter, despite the fact that billions are spent on weight loss every year. He travels to America to investigate the parallels between food companies and the tobacco industry and meets the activists battling to introduce laws to tax fatty and sugary foods - and facing fierce resistance from industry.

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Jacques Peretti investigates the connections between obesity and weight loss

Jacques Peretti investigates the connections between obesity and weight loss, confronting some of the men making a fortune from our desire to become thin

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