March 12th, 2013 by Nathan Crudden. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

We go back to see how superskinny tea and sugar lover Hayley and supersize snackaholic Geoff are doing one year on, did their time in the feeding clinic change their eating habits for good?
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March 5th, 2013 by Nathan Crudden. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

In tonight’s episode we get to see how three of last years inmates at the feeding clinic are getting on – meal dodger Nathan Smith, Takeaway lover Chris Longley and convenience queen Jo Palmer. In the space of one year have they been able to leave their horrible diets behind them?
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February 19th, 2013 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

Supersize vs Superskinny returns for it’s seventh episode this evening, for another look at a pair of dysfunctional eaters.
There are two new patients in the eating clinic tonight, as constant snacker and grazer Emma Cain comes face to face with 20-year-old Robert Musgrove, who simply rarely gets around to eating.
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February 12th, 2013 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

Supersize vs Superskinny returns for the sixth episode of it’s current series on Channel 4 tonight and the latest episode will focus on Julie Henry, 20 stone woman who wants to kick her addiction to comfort eating.
She will cross paths with superksinny Dougie Reid who keeps his weight down by consuming countless cups of coffee a day.
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February 5th, 2013 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

Tonight’s episode of Supersize vs Superskinny is the fifth in the current season and it’s set to be a tense one.
There is plenty of drama and emotion as teenage comfort eater Victoria Madden meets with Hannah Pidgley, who is a self confessed fussy eater, who prefers to avoid food altogether, hence her recent discovery that she’s medically malnourished.
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January 29th, 2013 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

The fourth episode of the current series of Supersize vs Superskinny goes out on Channel 4 tonight and once again Dr Christian shines a spotlight on two patients with very different eating issues.
First up in the feeding clinic is Craig Nellies, whose weight has ballooned to 24 stone in recent years, because of his love of takeaways and junk food.
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January 22nd, 2013 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Julie Menzies, supersize vs superskinny, Zoe Hughes-Blinston

In this edition of Supersize vs Superskinny 42-year-old super snacker Julie Menzies and 24-year-old fussy eater Zoe Hughes-Blinston swap diets in an emotional swap.
Overweight Julie has made a profitable career out of being an award winning baker, but her job has led to her over consuming unhealthy and sugary treats on a far too regular basis and has seen her weight creep upwards to a huge 23 stone 11.
In comparison, Zoe is a manager of a busy fashion business and is so slight that she sometimes gets mistaken for a store mannequin.
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April 17th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

Head to head in the Feeding Clinic this time are 20-year-old Brooke Gamble and superskinny 51-year-old Marie Sheratt. Brooke is a 24 stone 8 pound medical student who worries her size 28 body will stop future patients taking her seriously as a doctor.
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March 6th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

Twenty-five-year-old foodaholic Rob Gillett goes head to head with 25-year-old foodphobic Hayley Payne in the Feeding Clinic on tonight’s Supersize vs Superskinny episode.
Rob’s obsession with donuts and cream cakes has seen him eat his way to an enormous 35 stone 10 pounds. While on the other end of the scale for busy-bee Hayley food isn’t a priority, which has left her weighing in at just six stone 12 pounds.
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February 28th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

Dr Christian Jessen’s feeding clinic opens its doors for a new series that features new strands highlighting the nation’s dysfunctional relationship with food, as well as investigative reports on eating disorders, morbid obesity and extreme eating habits. Experts predict that by 2020 a third of adults in the UK will be obese. But in America this milestone has already been reached.
Dr Christian flies out to Evansville, Indiana, officially America’s ‘Fattest City’, where 38% of the population is obese. He meets a woman who lost her foot due to obesity-related diabetes, and a morbidly obese man rushed to hospital with severe chest pains, before heading out to a funeral home where the coffins are the size of hot tubs!
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March 22nd, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: supersize vs superskinny

The UK has Europe’s highest number of obese kids while the number of anorexic kids has almost doubled in ten years. Over four consecutive nights this week Supersize vs Superskinny returns with a campaign tackling the nation’s over and under weight kids as Dr Christian Jessen and dietician Ursula Philpot work with parents and their children to deliver lifesaving nutritional advice.
Tuesday 22 March 2011
8:00pm, Channel 4
April 6th, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: supersize vs superskinny
In the feeding clinic, it’s a battle of wills as stubborn calorie counting health freak 38 year old Emma Frost faces up to 23 year old Scott Hastie, the non stop eating midnight muncher.
Emma, who weighs in at just 6 stone 1 pound, is so obsessed with her ‘healthy’ diet that she’s wasting away. Trying to cut out ‘unhealthy’ food, she’s actually starving herself of what her body actually needs to stay fit. And Scott who snacks constantly between his gigantic meals is now 25 stone 7 pounds which means he’s morbidly obese and in danger of serious health problems.
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February 22nd, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Channel 4, supersize vs superskinny

Supersize vs Superskinny, the magazine show that highlights Britain’s dysfunctional relationship with food, is back next month for a new season. Dr Christian Jessen and Anna Richardson return to front the programme that tackles the dangerous effects of extreme dieting, morbid obesity and eating disorders.
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February 3rd, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Channel 4, supersize vs superskinny

Supersize vs Superskinny, the magazine show that highlights Britain’s dysfunctional relationship with food is back for a new season. Dr Christian Jessen and Anna Richardson return to front the programme, which tackles the dangerous effects of extreme dieting, morbid obesity and eating disorders.
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September 15th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Channel 4, My Big Fat Diet Show, supersize vs superskinny
Channel 4’s features department has ordered Cheetah Television, an Endemol company to produce a brand new diet show fronted by Anna Richardson, which will air in January 2010 to help viewers shed the post-Christmas pounds.
My Big Fat Diet Show features Anna Richardson (The Sex Education Show, Supersize vs Superskinny) as she grabs the nation by its love handles to show us how to lose weight fast.
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