SBS Australia runs an infomercial for the medical/pharmaceutical industry on how to "Cure" obesity via a lifetime of dependence on drugs: A reply to "The Obesity Myth" & the propaganda.

Click on the screen grab (left), to enlarge and read a scathing reply to SBS's spin, left in this FB thread. According to the central proponent of their new documentary (Joseph Proietto MBBS, PhD, FRACP), the way to lose weight is to starve patients with food replacement drinks and one carbohydrate-free meals in the evening, to induce ketosis. This ketotic state makes the patient feel so nauseated/sick they lose their appetite and forget they're starving. After this (or even during if the ketosis isn't bad enough to strip them of their desire for food), they're supposed to go on a lifetime of appetite suppressing drugs, followed by bariatric surgery if their bodies are still stubbornly resisting the punishment.

Proietto then goes on to lament at one point how Australia's public health system is failing to subsidise his treatment regime/drug therapy by not making the pharmaceuticals he uses available on the PBS scheme. Yep, I bet he's extremely sorry about that, considering 70% of Australia's population is either overweight or obese. Corporate profits would go through the roof if that particular Pandora's box was opened. There's an awful lot of cash riding on that agenda.

Makes we wonder if there's a pattern emerging here with our public broadcasters, a pattern which promotes a very big business (which would like to grow even bigger). The BBC deliberately attacked and distorted the work of a highly respected (and very popular), nutrition scientist whose work strongly promotes a more natural approach - and now SBS Australia is spruiking a punishing regime which requires a lifetime of medication (preferably funded by the public purse if the drug companies get their way).