Tipping The Scales / Anorexia

"Tipping The Scales" Associate Producer, Richard Longley reports on human body types, eating habits, problems associated with obesity and starvation, and cultural influences on diets and ideal proportions. Appearing on the program are: Dr. David Foster and Lorraine Frydman of the National Research Council, Ottawa, whose research includes body fat in relation to low-temperature survival; Dr. Dan Roncari and David Lau, of Toronto General Hospital, working on projects to assist the massively obese reduce weight; and Dr Errol Marliss who is in charge of a fasting program at Toronto General. The program also looks into such extreme examples of fasting as anorexia nervosa among young women, and what happens to brain and body when political protestors enter prolonged fasts that often lead to death.