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Over the past 50 years, worldwide obesity rates have tripled, and now headlines increasingly shout of a public health crisis, even an obesity epidemic. Tom Sutcliffe explores the consequences of using such negative and emotional language to describe weight and the increasing rates of fat phobia in society. He looks at the health issues and the so-called \u2018miracle drugs\u2019 that suppress appetite, and where genetics and diet meet.

He\u2019s joined by Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow and recently appointed as the UK Government\u2019s Obesity Mission Chair, the body-positive activist Stephanie Yeboah who\u2019s the author of Fattily Ever After, and the businessman Henry Dimbleby whose book Ravenous reveals the mechanisms behind our food systems.

Producer: Katy Hickman