Diet Diaries
Synopsis
Anorexia and bulimia sufferers are typically 13-25 year-old women. But not everyone with an eating disorder fits into this category. In Diet Diaries seven people talk about their relationship with the enemy – food. Their intimate confessions give an unsettling insight into what it feels like if food rules your life.
Sarah Chapman, 23, began dieting at 15 and now makes herself vomit up to nine times a day. At 42, Sarah Middleton is still hoping that anorexia won’t kill her. But she weighs only five stone and says "I do love food but I have a problem with it." But it’s not only women that suffer; Anthony, 60, has also grown to hate food. He survives on nutritional supplements and a single food. For several weeks his stable diet was English strawberries. Food has become an obsession for Anthony and like the others featured in Diet Diaries, his life is ruled and ruined by it.
Anorexia and bulimia sufferers are typically 13-25 year-old women. But not everyone with an eating disorder fits into this category. In Diet Diaries seven people talk about their relationship with the enemy – food. Their intimate confessions give an unsettling insight into what it feels like if food rules your life.
Sarah Chapman, 23, began dieting at 15 and now makes herself vomit up to nine times a day. At 42, Sarah Middleton is still hoping that anorexia won’t kill her. But she weighs only five stone and says "I do love food but I have a problem with it." But it’s not only women that suffer; Anthony, 60, has also grown to hate food. He survives on nutritional supplements and a single food. For several weeks his stable diet was English strawberries. Food has become an obsession for Anthony and like the others featured in Diet Diaries, his life is ruled and ruined by it.
Duration
1 x 5'
Definition
SD
Genre
Factual
Subgenre
Lifestyle
Producer
n/a