Experts put overweight volunteers on diets designed to tackle the specific reasons why they eat too much. It is time to see if personalised dieting will work in everyday life.
It is time to see if personalised dieting will work in normal life. The volunteers have been given one of three diets to follow - based on their genes, their hormones and their psychology. But now they are back at home, trying to stick to their personalised diets with all the stresses and temptations of real life.
Dr Chris van Tulleken and Professor Tanya Byron discover how our genetic makeup can make temptation difficult to resist, how understanding the brain reveals what makes us comfort eat and what science can tell us about why we make disastrous food choices.
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Q&A: Your diet questions answered
Expert nutrition scientist Susan Jebb answered your questions.
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Take the Test
Use the BBC's scientific diet test to improve your slimming success
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Recipe collections
BBC Food’s collections of recipes, tailored to each of the programme's three diet types
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Water loss
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MRI
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Chris van Tulleken |
| Presenter | Tanya Byron |
| Producer | Jack Rampling |
| Director | Jack Rampling |
| Series Producer | Paul Overton |
| Executive Producer | Mark Hedgecoe |
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