Programmed to be Fat

Health-Medical Documentary hosted by David Suzuki, published by CBC broadcasted as part of CBC The Nature of Things series in 2012 - English narration


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Programmed to be Fat? (HDTV)
Are we fat because of man-made chemicals?
New science links environmental chemicals to the global obesity epidemic.
Controversial new science is raising suspicion that chemicals in the environment may be programming us to be fat. And it starts before we're even born. That's the subject of a new documentary called Programmed to be Fat?
Programmed to be Fat? tells the stories of three scientists whose unexpected findings led them to follow the research of a curious doctor in Scotland, baffled by her inability to lose weight. For three years she pored over existing research on environmental chemicals and finally published a key study in an alternative medicine journal. It linked endocrine-disrupting chemicals to the obesity epidemic. The scientists came across the paper while puzzling over their own research results. None of their studies were about fat, but they had two things in common - they were all researching endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and they all ended up with unusually heavy lab animals.
Endocrine disruptors are all around us - in plastic, in cans, in the water we drink, in the food we eat. They're not supposed to enter our bodies, but they do. If they're proven to cause weight gain, the implications for human health are profound.

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* Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
* Video Bitrate: 3161 Kbps
* Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778 (16:9)
* Video Resolution: 1280 x 720
* Audio Codec: AAC LC
* Audio English
* Audio Bitrate: 160 kb/s VBR 48 KHz
* Audio Channels: Stereo 2
* Run-Time: 45mins
* Framerate: 23.976 fps
* Number of Parts: 1
* Container Mp4
* Part Size: 998 MB
* Source: HDTV
* Encoded by: Harry65



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1) Further Information
* www.cbc.ca