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Two teenagers desperately unhappy with their size consider going under the knife to lose weight. Stephen Perrett is just 17 years old and already tips the scales at 28 stone. Despite knowing that his life is at risk he just can't control his addiction to food. His father, David, had a gastric b...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Electric Sky (Firm) (Producer)
Other Authors: Drew, Amanda, 1969- (Narrator), Gilhooly, Rebecca (Director, Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: London, England : Electric Sky, 2013.
Series:Health and society in video
Fat Doctor ; Series 3, Episode 2
Subjects:
Morbid obesity.
Gastric bypass.
Obésité morbide.
Dérivation bilio-pancréatique.
Gastric bypass
Morbid obesity
Streaming videos.
documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Two teenagers desperately unhappy with their size consider going under the knife to lose weight. Stephen Perrett is just 17 years old and already tips the scales at 28 stone. Despite knowing that his life is at risk he just can't control his addiction to food. His father, David, had a gastric band fitted 2 years before Stephen's surgery but he's struggling to lose weight too. And Rebecca Tedder not yet 16 but already a serial dieter. At 16 stone she wants a gastric band fitted. Her mother, Julie, lost 19 stone with a gastric band and it completely changed her life.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 15, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (51 min.).
Playing Time:00:50:30