Miles Chapman

Synopsis

Presenter George Lamb and a group of doctors advise people with excessive lifestyles how to become healthier and avoid serious illness.

For years, Oxford graduate Miles Chapman has been passionate about food, fashion and music, but since graduation the boy who won a music scholarship to a prestigious boarding school and mastered eight instruments has put his musical abilities on hold. Fashion has also fallen by the wayside, leaving fine dining as the overriding interest in gourmet Miles's life.

Now seven stone overweight, he's twice the man he wants to be with half the zest for life, and with a family history of diabetes and gout his predeliction for fine wine and Fois Gras makes his future prospects at best uncomfortable, and at worst endangered.

In his living autopsy, Miles's heart, liver and muscular skeletal system come under scrutiny and are found to be severely wanting. Miles's response is to throw himself into a programme of intensive exercise sustained by a diet consisting mainly of couscous.

It is an all-or-nothing approach that as a teenager he applied to his music but, as his live-in doctor Radha Modgil explains, only an Olympian in training would be able to stick to the punishing physical regime Miles is now inflicting on himself. What he needs in this, as in all areas of his life, is balance - a concept that is entirely new to him.

Credits

Presenter

George Lamb

Participant

Radha Modgil

Director

James Gurden

Producer

James Gurden

Executive Producer

Bridget Sneyd

Broadcasts

1. Tue 7 Jul 2009
   20:00
   BBC Three
2. Wed 8 Jul 2009
   00:45
   BBC Three
3. Thu 9 Jul 2009
   04:15
   BBC Three
4. Sun 12 Jul 2009
   01:30
   BBC Three
5. Sun 12 Jul 2009
   04:30
   BBC Three
6. Tue 14 Jul 2009
   03:45
   BBC Three