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Europe’s citizens eat too much fatty food, too much sweet food and – they eat too much. Nowadays obesity has long since ceased to be an individual problem of a few people, it has become Europe´s most underestimated epidemic. Hence the diagnosis for the “European patient” is obesity alarm! The consequences are incalculable and threatening: the illnesses arising from this could in future become the number one cause
of death on our continent according to statistics, surveys, analyses.
The documentary portrays four young Europeans, representative
of many, who have been struggling to lose weight for years. The film tries to discover how this dramatic overweight developed, how the psyche of these young people copes with the situation, how their environment reacts to them and how they imagine their future – in terms of weight.
These four individual case histories, these life stories blighted by obesity, reveal more than many an adiposis statistic. Many of us will recognise ourselves in their constant struggle to lose weight.