Synopsis
In the UK, we eat over three million takeaways per day. Journalist Nikki Fox teams up with scientists at Liverpool John Moores University to discover what this habit is doing to our health.
- Programme: The Truth About...
- Episode: Takeaways
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2020
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