Primary & Secondary Research

Primary Research

Interviewees
We are going to interview a range of people, we chose to interview a local GP who specialises in diet, this is our proffessional opinion piece and also a pharmacist to tell us how his opinion falls in terms of diet pills etc. We are going to interview a family member who had been on many diet pills and therefore had a strong opinion on how they effected people, she also used to work for the prescription drug company 'pfizer' and so she knew a fair amount about the industry. We are also going to film some Vox pop shots in a local village to get opinions on annorexia and media influence from the general public.

Secondary Research


Water diet death: Jacqueline Henson's sister Pauline hits out at LighterLifeA mother died after guzzling four litres of water in just two hours while on a controversial diet plan.


Jacqueline Henson, 40, collapsed when she was on the LighterLife programme which limits dieters to just 500 calories a day. It also encourages them to drink plenty of water but she took it too far.


Tests showed the mum-of-five was killed by swelling on the brain.


Her grieving sister Pauline Nash yesterday warned others not to copy the slimming fad and said: “I blame the diet, pure and simple”.


Bride-to-be died after losing 3st in 11 weeks on crash diet... eating just 530 calories a dayAn obese woman died after losing more than three stone on a crash diet to get in shape for her wedding.


Samantha Clowe, 34, collapsed at home from heart failure after following the strict low calorie LighterLife diet for 11 weeks.


An inquest in Leeds was inconclusive about whether the controversial LighterLife diet - which restricts people to 530 calories a day for a maximum of 12 weeks - played a part in her death.


This is the second reported case in three years of a woman who has died from similar heart failure after losing significant amounts of weight on the LighterLife plan.


A LighterLife spokesman said although Miss Clowe's BMI had reduced from 37 to 32 when she died, she was 'still clinically obese' and 'her health may have already been compromised.'


In January 2006 Matilda Callaghan, 25, of Camden, London, died after losing 10 stone in six months on the LighterLife plan.










Water diet death: Jacqueline Henson's sister Pauline hits out at LighterLife


A mother died after guzzling four litres of water in just two hours while on a controversial diet plan. Jacqueline Henson, 40, collapsed when she was on the LighterLife programme which limits dieters to just 500 calories a day. It also encourages them to drink plenty of water but she took it too far. Tests showed the mum-of-five was killed by swelling on the brain. Her grieving sister Pauline Nash yesterday warned others not to copy the slimming fad and said: “I blame the diet, pure and simple”.


Bride-to-be died after losing 3st in 11 weeks on crash diet... eating just 530 calories a day
An obese woman died after losing more than three stone on a crash diet to get in shape for her wedding. Samantha Clowe, 34, collapsed at home from heart failure after following the strict low calorie LighterLife diet for 11 weeks. An inquest in Leeds was inconclusive about whether the controversial LighterLife diet - which restricts people to 530 calories a day for a maximum of 12 weeks - played a part in her death.


This is the second reported case in three years of a woman who has died from similar heart failure after losing significant amounts of weight on the LighterLife plan. A LighterLife spokesman said although Miss Clowe's BMI had reduced from 37 to 32 when she died, she was 'still clinically obese' and 'her health may have already been compromised.' In January 2006 Matilda Callaghan, 25, of Camden, London, died after losing 10 stone in six months on the LighterLife plan.

These are two posters for channel four, one for a drama and one for a documentary, they both show strong messages and also both follow the same convetions in terms of composition, the 4 logo is in the same place and the text is boxed, this is something we will be following through to our documentary poster.