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What's the Right Diet for You? A Horizon Special

Christopher van Tulleken

Tanya Byron

Jack Rampling

Paul Overton

Mark Hedgecoe

What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special: Episode 2

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Episode 2

What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special

BBC Two - What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special, Episode 2

It is time to see if personalised dieting will work in everyday life.

Experts put overweight volunteers on diets designed to tackle the specific reasons why they eat too much. It is time to see if personalised dieting will work in everyday life.

It is time to see if personalised dieting will work in normal life. The volunteers have been given one of three diets to follow - based on their genes, their hormones and their psychology. But now they are back at home, trying to stick to their personalised diets with all the stresses and temptations of real life.

Dr Chris van Tulleken and Professor Tanya Byron discover how our genetic makeup can make temptation difficult to resist, how understanding the brain reveals what makes us comfort eat and what science can tell us about why we make disastrous food choices.

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This series takes dieters and employs the latest science to fashion a tailor-made diet.

This ground-breaking three-part series takes 75 dieters and employs the latest science to fashion a diet tailor-made to counteract the main reason they put on weight.

Dr Chris van Tulleken and Prof Tanya Byron team up with scientists from Oxford and Cambridge universities to see if they can help 75 overweight members of the public win their battle with weight loss.

Each dieter undergoes a series of scientific tests to find out the main reason for why they put on weight. The constant cravers have genes that mean they feel hungry all the time, the feasters have a misfiring gut hormone that stops them from knowing when they’re feeling full. The final group, the emotional eaters, eat in response to stress.

Each group is put on a specific diet that is tailored to counteract the main reason they put on weight. Will this new approach to dieting be more effective?

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