Obesity: The Post Mortem Page #4

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I wouldnt enjoy them, it would just be

because that is what I have done

in the past

and just seems to be something that,

that I have picked up as a way of coping,

which I have now moved away from,

but is still something I'm conscious of

and still occasionally want to go

and do that...

Sometimes, you know, I'm not going to...

I do eat some of the wrong kinds of food

and you know I dont go to the gym

as often as I should.

During my 20s, you know,

I partied a bit. I was going out with

my friends on the weekends, you know,

binge drinking all weekends,

not a good healthy lifestyle,

but at the time, I didnt care.

Food is pretty much central

to our existence.

Mum would always complain that we are

always thinking about our stomachs.

I suffer from a severe lack

of self-discipline.

So when I go to the supermarket,

I will generally walk through the door

and the first thing I will see is the

things on offer, biscuits two for one.

And then I will see the salad.

And its salad. And youve got carrots

and youve got hummus

and youve got Maltesers

and youve got Twirl

and youve got Buttons and Dairy Milk

this and Twix that and it is cheaper

and it is on deal,

so why wouldnt I?

It spirals and it gets out of control...

It's just quite sneaky really the way

that it creeps up on you

if you take your eye off the ball.

[Vinette] The next stage

of our post-mortem

is for Carla to go deeper into the body,

beyond the surface fat,

to get to the organs.

What will we discover from them

about the damage that fat has done?

[Carla] The organs come out in blocks

because they all fit together

in a certain way.

So, for example, with the

cardio-respiratory block,

which is the heart and the lungs,

these are specifically together

and above the diaphragm.

So you have a natural line there

that sort of makes them

into one block or pluck.

So if I remove those

and I give those to the pathologist,

he can then take a look at those organs

while I carry on with the next block.

[Vinette] To get to each block,

Carla must first remove the sternum,

the bony armour that protects

the major organs of the body.

Its not an easy job,

requiring skill perfected over years,

and a bit of brute force.

So Im going to take my rib shears,

we use these specifically for this job

as they can cut through bone.

And what Im going to do

is just make some very even cuts

right through all of these bones.

You can hear the bones are snapping.

This lady isn't exactly young.

The older people get, the more calcified

their bones become,

so they become very, very crunchy, whereas

younger people tend to have

much more soft bones.

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