Obesity is a major problem today, but if you think diets are a recent invention, then think again. Nine 21st-century overweight volunteers spend 24 days testing the weight-loss diets and fitness regimes that were popular in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and the 1920s.
Sir Roy Strong, former director of the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery, thinks history holds the answer to the nation’s obesity epidemic. To prove it, he’s transformed a magnificent Victorian country house into a period health spa. It’s Sir Roy’s mission to help his modern-day dieters learn some life-changing lessons from their grandparents’ generation about how to eat, keep fit and live a healthy, happy, longer life.
Tuesday 18 March 2008
9:00pm, Channel 4
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