Humax TV Tonight: Around The World in 80 Weighs tackles obesity

Around The World In Eighty Weighs is new to Channel 4 tonight at 9pm.

In this warm but eye-opening series, six people from across Britain, each living with obesity, travel the globe to learn the diverse reasons why people around the world are affected by obesity. Hosts in each country show them the traditional way of eating and forms of exercise in their culture and analyze their local obesity crises. There's humor, highs, and lows as our tourists go on extreme personal journeys, face their demons, and tackle their fears, while building strong and touching relationships with each other along the way.

The tourists learn the sometimes alarming truth about the potential health effects of obesity and are weighed together at the end of each episode to find out if they've managed to achieve their individual weight-loss goals. In this first episode, our six Brits travel to Japan - one of the world's rare success stories, where obesity is almost non-existent. They discover that this has been achieved by extreme government intervention, with laws that mean your employer must keep track of your waistline, and a culture of shame, including peculiar fitness apps that scold people for their weight.