Extreme Weight Loss Experiment Takes Heavy Toll

Published: December 1, 2007, 11:23 pm

A new BBC America documentary looks at the cost of extreme weight loss, that “supermodel thin” look that too many women think they want.In the film, called “Super Skinny Me,” two average-size British journalists, Louise Burke and Kate Spicer, agree to a radical experiment — drop five dress sizes in just five weeks. The goal was to show the drastic and sometimes deadly lengths women will go to just to be thin. Related Stories Emaciated Waitress: Too Thin to ‘Survive’?The ‘Skinny’ on Ultra-Thin Models Weight Loss From Three Diet Drugs ModestA Little Overweight May Not Be So BadHallelujah Diet RecipesWhy Americans ‘Tune Out’ Fat TalkTop GMA stories Surgery Glitch Feels Like ‘Living Death’Clinton Hitting Trail After Hostage IncidentFind the Best Getaways This Winter The documentary, “Super Skinny Me,” premiers this Sunday at 10 p.m. on BBC America. Burke, 29, weighed 129 pounds, and had never before

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