Supersize Vs Superskinny

Supersize vs Superskinny is a genuinely guilty pleasure of mine, as I'm sure it is to anyone who tunes into it regularly. It is a mixture of food porn and utter humiliation disguised as therapy (two key ingredients for stellar trash TV), but at the end of each episode, you do get the sense that these people are genuinely being helped - so you don't feel that bad about enjoying it so much. Basically, Dr Christian Jessen runs a 'food clinic' somewhere in London, where every week, a severely underweight person and a severely overweight person 'swap diets' for four days, each realising the extent to which they could eat more/less without dying. It goes without ...  Read the complete review

I love Supersize Vs Superskinny. There have been two series so far, each containing ten episodes. The premise of the show is to get one very underweight individual and one very overweight individual to live together for five days in a sterile environment whereby they have to eat each others meals; the week starts by putting both individuals entire weeks consumption of food into a tube which is always good as the overweight individuals is always about five foot higher! They then eat meals together and get on well but comment all the time on each others food intake. The focus on the show is definatley health and about changiing each persons perception of what is ...  Read the complete review

Whilst channel hopping trying to find something vaguely interesting to watch I came across Supersize vs Superskinny which used to be shown on channel 4 but can still be found on one of the Sky channels (139?). Each programme is an hour long & features 2 adults usually 1 male & 1 female - one obese & one underweight/ malnourished. They are weighed at the beginning & given a full medical by Dr Christian Jessen & they are confronted (in a firm but not unkind way) about the consequences of their bad eating habits. This is confirmed by each having to face a massive blown-up photograph of their bodies & being questioned about how they feel ...  Read the complete review

Supersize Vs Superskinny is an hour long programme which is currently being shown on channel 4 on Tuesdays at 8:00 - 9:00PM. The concept of the show is to take somebody who is dangerously underweight and somebody who is dangerously overweight. They are then put in to the feeding clinic for 5 days and will eat each others meals to grasp a concept of how what they are currently eating is very unhealthy for them. During the show the underweight person will be shown the damage that is being done to their body by under eating such as hair loss, malnutrition, skin damage, loss of periods etc and they are normally shown close up photographs of their body ...  Read the complete review

This is a Channel 4 reality Television programme that features one very overweight person and one very under weight (mal nourished person). It's a good programme but unfortunately, like many other reality programmes, once you have seen a few you realise that each programme is almost identical to the previous one. Most of the programme is an exercise in stating the bleeding obvious to the two participants. The very overweight person is told that they are overweight because they eat too many fatty foods and not enough fruits, vegetables, fish and fibre and the very skinny person is told they are too skinny because their diet is the polar ...  Read the complete review