
Globesity: Fat's New Frontier
Obesity used to be framed as a rich-world problem. This film follows its spread into low and middle income countries, where hunger is being replaced by a different kind of malnutrition: cheap processed food, sugary drinks, and fast food outlets moving into markets that had none a generation ago. Cameras visit clinics and streets in countries newly grappling with rising waistlines alongside persistent poverty, talking to doctors, public health officials, and families caught in the shift. The film traces how global food companies market aggressively in these new territories, how changing diets and sedentary urban life are reshaping bodies faster than health systems can respond, and how diabetes and heart disease are climbing in populations that used to worry about famine. It treats obesity as a symptom of economic and industrial change rather than a matter of individual willpower, showing how trade policy, advertising, and food pricing steer what ends up on a plate. The result is a portrait of a health crisis moving country by country, ahead of the infrastructure built to handle it.