'Can Fat Teens Hunt?' (TV Show of Course!)

[Nightwalker]

Saw an ad for a new show starting 'sometime soon' 'Can Fat Teens Hunt?' on BBC Three.

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In a return of the radical TV trial, Can Fat Teens Hunt? sees 10 dangerously overweight teenagers embark on a journey that could save their health. In an attempt to turn their backs on their potentially fatal eating habits, they will spend one month with the Iban tribe, former headhunters, living deep in the harsh and remote jungles of Borneo, South East Asia.



The teens will have to become hunter-gatherers. They will live the life of their hosts, abiding by the Iban's strict social rules and customs, and exist on a natural, unprocessed diet. If they want to eat, they must first pick, dig, trap, kill and cook their food. Can Fat Teens Hunt? offers a chance for the obese teens to change their lives and to understand and conquer their life-threatening relationship with food.



To survive, the five boys and five girls will have to stomach the Iban's traditional diet which is like nothing they've ever eaten before. Delicacies include fat sago worms, freshly caught frogs and large river snails – a menu far away from pizzas, hamburgers, crisps and chocolate. They will have to slaughter chickens, gather jungle ferns, trap fish and hunt wild boar. To eat will mean back-breaking work from dawn to dusk. Regaining the essential evolutionary link between food and effort will be a life-changing experience.



Throughout the experience, the TV dinner diners will be closely monitored by a team of Iban mentors as well as by qualified nutritionist Alice Sykes and a team of doctors. Together, these advisors will provide a daily clinic and professional insight into their progress.

 

[Chris G]

Brilliant!! A sort of Brat Camp meets RM.

Looking forward to it!


Chris

 

[loz.]

Oh Great,

Take more wasters on the trip/adventure of a lifetime for them to moan and complain and not appreciate anything they see or learn.

 

[born2roam]

would love to go and do that...

just have to get fat/obese whatever... where's the nearest Pizaa Hut/Mc Donalds/KFC?Whatever....???



Grtz Johan

 

[Nightwalker]

It will be no doubt a joke and annoying for me to watch, but apparently it also contains interviews with the tribes people and their view on how the 'fat teens' behave and deal with life, so I'll look forward to seeing their veiws. I'll no doubt record the first couple of shows and check it out.

 

[EdS]

makes you reget keeping you nose clean(ish) and looking after yourself.

bring back National Service and the birch, thats whathe youth of today need.

 

[spamel]

Ah, but I have heard they are making it a little bit like X Factor, and will vote one child off each couple of days which then gets slaughtered and turned into a cruise boat type canoe!

 

[Toadflax]

Maybe I'm prejudging the program without seeing it, but most of my pre-judging of other TV shows is pretty accurate.

I (and I suspect most people from BCUK) would make boring viewing for the mass TV market because:

• we'd show a genuine interest
• we might get tired and irritable but we wouldn't whinge
• we'd show respect for the Iban
• we'd probably rather live the Iban's lifestyle than the consumer orientated, stressful lifestyle that some of us live
• we wouldn't just be there for our 5 minutes of fame on the TV
• the audience wouldn't laugh at us in our misery, because we wouldn't be in misery
• ad infinitum...

Geoff (perhaps starting to gain a reputation as another Grumpy Old Man)

 

[Dunelm]

This is cruel, exploitative, salacious and mean spirited. Not on the fatties but on the Iban. I hope they were suitably recompensed for having to put up with the whinging tubs of lard.

 

[Tengu]

But its typical of the BBC

 

[commandocal]

Lucky fat kids, they have an oppurtunity of a lifetime there no doubt most of them will moan about it, but on the other hand its just another show exploiting people with problems

 

[jojo]

My daughter actually saw a trailer of this

Her verdict:

A lot of fat kids crying because they had to eat bugs

One comment from an Iban woman: when I asked something all they do is cry...

 

[spamel]

That's our future! These kids will grow up and run the show, some of them may end up defending our liberties! Wasn't there something about parents being charged with negligence or something in the event of their children becoming obese?

 

[jojo]

I think I'll watch it when possible, in the same way I watch brat camp: on occasion you do get a little gem, such as the happiness of some of the kids when they manage to light a fire with a bow. But most don't have any appreciation of how lucky they are to be where they are, the beauty of the land, and have no more respect for the people that "look after them" than they have for themselves.

No doubt this lot will be exactly the same, self centred, self pitying, blubbering wrecks.

I hope that it will help the Iban people, to realise our society is not what it's cracked up to be, not something to aspire to, because those kids are the product of the society they live in, generally not a pretty sight.

S orry, the grumpy old man has resurfaced in Lowestoft

 

[LazySod]

Do you think if i wore my inflatable sumo suit, i'd get an invite?

 

[StJon]

I'm very disappointed in a number of your views. Yes this could be a life changing event for these kids but some of you have got your view that if they are fat then they will not change and its their fault. You do not know these kids or their background so please give them a chance as the Iban tribe are. I think we in the developed world have a lot to learn from the tribe in terms of being non-judgemental...

 

[sharp88]

I think I read in the newspaper that 80% of young children have never actually been for a walk in the woods. Pity on them. They dont know what there missing.

These fat people are only there as another form of modern reality entertainment. They choose the most fragile of people deliberately for these show. If its not fat people, its someone else with physical or mental health difficulties. Shame on reality TV.

 

[loz.]

I'm very disappointed in a number of your views. Yes this could be a life changing event for these kids but some of you have got your view that if they are fat then they will not change and its their fault. You do not know these kids or their background so please give them a chance as the Iban tribe are. I think we in the developed world have a lot to learn from the tribe in terms of being non-judgemental...

I assume you missed "fat MEN can't hunt" - of which i imagine this will be very similar. I was disgused at how my fellow man behaved and the disrespect they had for the SAN ? tribe in namibia ( iirc )

Have you seen any of the "toughest jobs in britain" ? - another example of taking under privileged peaple and giving them opportunities for it to be ungratefully thrown back in the face.

Remember Monty Dons go at his rehabilitation farm project - again same.

Sadly Youth of today have no respect, gratitude, willpower, or morals


So as for being judgmental - it seems the minority are becoming the majority

I wont be watching.

 

[Nightwalker]

I'm very disappointed in a number of your views. Yes this could be a life changing event for these kids but some of you have got your view that if they are fat then they will not change and its their fault.

I think some views on here express the opposite, that its not their fault, its infact the fault of the parents and/or the current structure of society.

It is sad that the BBC use them like this for entertainment and $$$, but lets hope it will bebenifical for them and that the BBC actually have this on their agenda to some degree.

 

[jojo]

It's the problem, isn't it, these programs tend to portrait people in a certain way. We only see the people carefully selected to create "entertainment".. I don't put all young people in the same bag because I have 2 children in the late teens and I know quite a few of their friends and few behave in this way.

Being non-judgemental, I think, is part of the problem. It belong to the "we must not upset anybody" creed in this self indulgent society that create that sort of behaviour in people of all ages.

I am quite happy to upset someone if it eventually help to change their behaviour.