The TV Channel ITV1 is planning to show documentaries that will track and follow the lives of seriously obese people who are nearing death due to their chronic weight problem.  The program that is to be screened at what is nicked named Half Ton Hospital looks at people who are living at New York’s Brookhaven Clinic where there are around sixty morbidly obese men and women who have an average body mass of. …Wait for it….50 stone!!!
 
These people have been sent to the clinic and put on strict diets and health regimes as a last chance attempt to save their life. Many of the men and women in the clinic are unable to walk and have for many years been unable to climb out of bed due to their weight. Some of them were even unable to fit through normal doorways and go outside their houses for years before being admitted to the clinic.

The clinic specialises in getting these super obese people back to normal weight and has special tools that enable the patients to get to the clinic in the first place such as machinery to break the walls of houses to get the people out of their homes, as well as special stretchers and winches that were in fact designed to move killer whales. The clinic knows how to deal with these obese people from a psychological view point too and understands their food addictions that are all consuming and which start to destroy them.

One of the patients in the show is from the UK and weighs 48 stone and his life will be followed during the TV program that is to be called 30 Stone Lighter. When people are this big they often need to have weight loss surgery that can be risky but is justified in view of their weight problem that is likely to kill them in the near future anyway. Very obese people live uncomfortable and unhappy lives and if their obesity is not treated they often die young.