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Can Fat Teens Hunt

Can Fat Teens Hunt

2008
TV-14
Can Fat Teens Hunt takes the format Fat Men Can't Hunt a step further by tackling the ticking time bomb that is teenage obesity head on. In a return of the radical TV trial, ten overweight teenagers embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they adopt an agrarian hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the rainforests of Borneo. For one month they must live amongst the Iban people in the depths of the jungle. Here the teens follow the strict rules of their hosts and live life as it used to be, in the wild, on a natural and unprocessed diet. If they want to eat, they must first pick, dig, trap, kill and cook their food. For these ten teenagers Can Fat Teens Hunt? is a chance to understand and conquer their destructive relationship with food in an extraordinary and demanding environment Throughout the project, an extended family from the Iban people work with a nutritionist to closely monitor and assist the young group, helping them turn their backs on their harmful food habits and sedentary lifestyles forever They quickly burn off more calories than they consume but how does this make them feel? Do the teenagers adapt to life in the heart of Borneo's rainforest or are they simply too heavy to hunt?
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