Frontline · SEASON 22
Diet Wars
Episode 12 · 2004-04-08
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
Americans spend $40 billion a year on books, products, and programs designed to do one thing: help us lose weight. From Atkins to Ornish and Weight Watchers to South Beach, today's dieters have a dizzying array of weight loss programs from which to choose -- yet the underlying principles of these diets are often contradictory. In "Diet Wars," FRONTLINE examines the great diet debate. Viewers follow FRONTLINE correspondent Steve Talbot, whose discovery that those "few extra pounds" have put him perilously close to the clinical definition of obesity prompts him to evaluate the myriad diets now available to overweight Americans.
56 minutes
Season 22 episodes
1. Truth, War, and Consequences2003-10-09
2. Chasing the Sleeper Cell2003-10-16
3. The Alternative Fix2003-11-06
4. Dangerous Prescription2003-11-13
5. Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? (Updated)2003-11-20
6. From China With Love2004-01-15
7. Chasing Saddam's Weapons2004-01-22
8. Beyond Baghdad2004-02-12
9. Tax Me if You Can2004-02-19
10. The Invasion of Iraq2004-02-26
11. Ghosts of Rwanda2004-04-01
12. Diet Wars2004-04-08
13. Son of Al Qaeda2004-04-22
14. The Jesus Factor2004-04-29
15. The Way the Music Died2004-05-27
16. The Plea2004-06-17
