Backs to the wall...
TV docs help family risking health with diet of takeaways & fizzy drinks
I was purging every single meal for about two years. I got really depressed and turned to self-harm. “I didn’t want to talk to anybody, I actually Doctor In The House team of experts thought it was easier to make myself bleed and to sit over a toilet than to see anybody. That is the way I felt at the time.”
Ava binge drinks once a week, downing up to three double ports mixed with Blue WKD plus several whiskeys with cola – and medics warn of the risks to her liver.
Her dad Pat, a former kick boxer who won a world championship title in 1993, is in the bottom 10% for fitness for his age and categorised as class two obese.
He is also referred for a colonoscopy after bleeding from his back passage raises concerns over bowel cancer and is given further tests for an irregular heartbeat.
Prof Moyna warns the family of five: “Physically you’re at crisis point. You’re about to fall off a cliff.”
The doctors’ orders include a meal and exercise plan, cutting out alcohol and cigarettes, restrictions on screen time and a blanket ban on phones at meal times.
Their eight-week boot camp throws up some surprising challenges with Ava admitting: “The first night in the gym me and Reagan got sick. It was horrendous.”
Doctor In The House is on Virgin Media One at 9pm on Wednesday.
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