The Supersizers

The other night my friend mentioned this BBC television series to me. It's called The Supersizers. It's a show about the history of food, main focus being in Britain.

"The series originated in a one off edition in April 2007 as part of a season of programmes on the Edwardian period, "Edwardian Supersize Me", a reference to the film Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock. This programme set the format for the subsequent television series in that Coren and Perkins adopted the persona of a couple living in the Edwardian period and for a week ate the food which people from that period would have eaten. In addition they would take part in the interests and activities of them too, even going so far as adopting the dress and mannerisms of the time. Before and after the experience they are subject to medical tests to see how the diet affected them."

More info, the wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supersizers...

You can view it here for free. If it doesn't work, all episodes are apparently on youtube.
http://www.ovguide.com/tv/the_supersizers_eat.htm

I have yet to sit down and watch the series, but I plan to view a bit during Thanksgiving break. :)

Stephanie