Describe an interesting TV programme you watched about a science topic.
You should say:
- What science topic this TV programme was about
- When you saw this TV programme
- What you learnt from this TV programme about a science topic and
- explain why you found this TV programme interesting.
Being a science student, I love watching illuminating television shows based on Science and scientific facts. Here I would like to talk about one of my favourite TV shows that I started watching 5 years ago. Its name is “My 600-lb life”
It’s a reality television series that has aired on the TLC network since 2012. Each episode follows a year in the life of morbidly obese individuals, who begin the episode weighing at least 600 pounds (270 kg), and documents their attempts to reduce their weight to a healthy level. Update episodes, called “Where Are They Now?”, feature one or more previous patients, picking up a year or more after their original episodes were televised. It stars MD Younan Nowzaradan an Iranian-American surgeon from Houston, under whom patients are placed under observation. He first has them attempt losing weight on their own by following a strict diet, and then depending on the patient’s progress may offer gastric bypass surgery to further assist in weight loss.
I started watching this show during the winters of 2015. Actually I used to watch a cookery show named “Nigella feasts” which then used to end at 10 p.m. at the weekends. One day I just continued to watch that tv channel even after that cookery show ended and that’s how I came across “My 600-lb show”. I have been watching this tv series ever since.
This shows inspires extremely obese people to lose weight and to maintain fitness. The patients who are filmed in this program are extremely oversized and weigh over 250 kgs. However, every season many of them succeed to lose an exorbitant amount of weight with sheer hard work and dedication. They get to lead normal lives and get rid of several health disorders and limitations that are directly related to obesity. Moreover, they gain back their confidence and once again regain their long lost hope of living a usual life. Sadly 7 patients who were participants in the series have lost their lives since 2013 as they underwent fatal infections, heart failure and neuropathy. One of them named LB Bonner committed suicide in 2018 during the sixth season of the show. Well, it definitely gives its viewers a lesson to avoid binge eating, take a balanced diet and to workout to maintain physical fitness.
Vocabulary:
illuminating: providing in-depth knowledge of a subject
morbidly: unhealthy
gastric: of the stomach
exorbitant: too much
