Teased and abused for being grossly overweight, Jimmy, a fourteen-year-old Scottish boy who dreams mysterious dreams and secretly aspires to become a chef, decides to turn his self-loathing life around by learning how to swim.
Experts and overweight individuals comment on the physical, psychological, and environmental aspects of being overweight or obese and the battle to become physically fit and healthy. Includes special features.
Class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
Graciela Jones moves to Florida with her fianc?e to open an art gallery where she inadvertently becomes the number one enemy of a group of mean old ladies.
Alison and Amy were sisters growing up in a Boston suburb, but as they grew older, Alison started to gain incredible amounts of weight while Amy remained slim, and the two different body types pushed the sisters apart so far that Alison decided to get gastric bypass surgery.
