SWR Concerns: Forever Slim – How to Defeat the Yoyo Effect

SWR, 2022, 45 minutes

There have been many diet documentaries, but they have never been tested consistently and long enough. We do things differently: we take a long-term approach to the subject. Three test persons, three different diets, for three months – and three years later we check whether the yoyo effect has taken hold in the long term. A unique long-term trial that examines short-term successes for their lasting effect.

Three years after the dieting phase of our three protagonists, we see where the problems lie in staying permanently slim – and why that might not be such a bad thing: Could it be that perceived beauty and health are not the same after all?