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China's extreme weight loss camps

Daily weigh-ins, mandatory exercise classes and no snacks.

Military-style weight loss camps in China are getting popular. You sign up voluntarily for a month and follow a strict daily routine, with intense exercises, mandatory trips to the scales and rules on snacking. Some people have called them 鈥渇at prisons鈥. So what鈥檚 it like to go to one? TL Huang from Australia tells us about her experience. We hear about the downsides of these kinds of 鈥渇at camps鈥 from British nutritionist and personal trainer Luke Hanna. And Wanqing Zhang from the 麻豆社鈥檚 Global China Unit explains why more people in China are signing up to them.

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Presenter: Iqra Farooq
Producers: Mora Morrison, Chelsea Coates and Julia Ross-Roy
Video producer: Baldeep Chahal
Editor: Verity Wilde

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13 minutes