Hugh is surprised to learn bottles of fruit juice and smoothies can contain as much sugar as a can of fizzy pop. He is also confused that the labels on the bottles seem to suggest that anything up to 330ml is a single portion size, when in fact the government recommends not drinking any more than 150ml of juice or smoothies a day. Hugh also turns the spotlight on our most popular high street restaurant chains, because children are eating out twice as much as they did in the 1970s. He challenges the restaurants to reduce the amount of sugar in their puddings, to put calorie information on their children’s menus, and to stop selling bottomless fizzy drinks. Meanwhile, up in Newcastle, it is six months since Hugh launched his attempt to change the eating habits of a whole city. It has got off to a slow start, but after staging a big exercise event on the High Street and with Ross Noble’s help on social media, it soon starts to take off.
Hugh's Fat Fight was broadcast on SBS ONE at Sunday 18 April 2021, 16:40. This episode was initially placed on Monday 24 September 2018.