What’s on TV tonight? Around the World in 80 Weighs

Around the World in 80 Weighs continues tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.

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In this warm but eye-opening series, six people from across Britain, who are 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 analyse their local obesity crises.

There’s humour, 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. This time they’re in the USA, in the heart of Texas. The food feels more familiar, but they’re shocked to discover that there’s a whole industry to cater for people with obesity: on one hand, there’s a fast food joint on every corner, on the other, there are expensive quick fixes everywhere you look.

But it’s hard to find good, cheap, fresh food in the shops. Tensions brewing in the group finally boil over, and different attitudes to weight loss and their journey together lead to a big row and lots of tears. But have they managed to lose weight at the weigh-in nonetheless?