Experts calling for Operation Transformation to be taken off the air

It is not fair of someone who can control their weight through simple regular exercise and a simple healthy diet does not do this, and instead puts the costs on the quality of their life, their family, society and the taxpayer.

Now, there can be many reasons why someone can't do this as you outlined. But for others, simple changes can make a huge difference.

Operation Transformation like programmes and content can help but they trigger an obsession with body image in society . I don't think RTE do this intentionally or try to profit from it. They do it from best intentions point of view.

But if you look at social media in general, there is an avalanche of diet/weight/body related issues and this stuff causes huge mental health eating disorder, body dismorohia issues. And disgustingly there are bad actors profitting from this.

I'm always baffled when I hear him on the radio.

As a medical expert, you'd think that he would acknowledge that people sitting in front of tv, taking no exercise and having too many takeaways, is the major cause of obesity in Ireland.

But he never mentions people eating too much. Is this a new tact the authorities are taking? Afraid to blame the victim? Or call them out?

He keeps calling it a disease. And keeps saying its not the overweight person's fault.

In a country where GP's are legally allowed to be bribed by big pharma, taking what they say at face value is not smart.

Neither is watching O.T.

Hell even my mum who is their target demograpghic found it unwatchable due to the saccharine bullshit backstory attached to "contestants".

Happy to say that my mum also was done with being overweight and losing mobility so she joined a gym and now goes three times a week & walks in the park on the other days. Lost a noticable amount in under a year and is able to go on hill walks with her grandkids. All this due to willpower. No ozempic prescription needed, thanks Doc.

Oh and OT can go **** itself trying to make out that the excercise needed is running in the pissing rain on the side of a busy road in the dark. They dishonestly take the joy out of a good workout.

Ah yes the $cience.

I'd say it's more their desperately trying to cut anything they can to cut costs. Their dying to get rid of dancing with the stars too but the viewership remains high so it's got another season. God knows what the "experts" and KT cost them on OT

Never had any time for OT,just not for me.

I did watch it a few times and I felt its no harm educating people about weight loss exercise,lifestyle,calories, etc.

Of course there are exceptions but for the vast majority maintaining a calorie deficit (however you want to do that) will result in weight loss.Its does take a bit of discipline and control but hey,that's life.

Kathyrn Thomas will probably be cancelled in a few years over hosting this show.

Em you’re hardly some genius for telling us what 99% of people already know.

I'm always baffled by O'Shea too. I spent 20 years in Medical Genetics and the number of people presenting with truly genetic causes for their obesity was miniscule. (There are, certainly, multifactorial causes of obesity where a person's genetic makeup contributes to the propensity to obesity).

If you look at "Reelin' in the years", Irish people were way slimmer. It seems reasonable to say that cheap, fatty, sugary, processed foods which are literally everywhere and less movement has made people heavier.

I actually liked operation transformation when Eva was the doctor. We need straight talking Finns and fewer american style touchy feely crap. Tell it like it is. In one EU country I lived in, if your kid was too fat at school, they were sent to a special school during the summer to learn about healthy food/cooking/exercise and basically made lose weight. We'd have a national outcry here if that happened, and yet if parents won't take responsibility who will???

Looks like OT was eating into the RTE budget.

It started out good but all the hard luck stories and telling them they were great because they lot 2 lbs was annoying to have to listen to every week.

It sould have been like The Biggest Loser Australia where they were pushed until they nearly passed out.

The fat would fall off them after a few weeks of that.

It's simply a statement of fact that obesity is a choice, how on earth could it be otherwise?

The evidence may show that the population largely lack the willpower to choose otherwise, and if we want we may accept this as a fait accompli and develop policies with this in mind.

But there's nothing scientific about pretending that the choice never existed.

There is alot to be said for returning Miss World and Miss Universe contests to the screen - kids need role models that they can aspire to, and there is nothing wrong with people admiring beautiful women. Kids spend all their time on social media anyway looking at pics and videos of their fave stars so just put it back on telly for all of us to enjoy