Airdate: Hack Live: On Body Obsession

All this week ABC2 is featuring its Naked As showcase, special programming looking at bodies, in all their shapes and sizes.

Tonight Tom Tilley presents Hack Live: On Body Obsession, exploring the depths and dangers of body paranoia  Are we too ‘body obsessed?’

Australians are image obsessed. Whether it’s sharing an Instagram about their latest exercise feat or spending countless hours at the gym, many young Australians are working towards the perfect body. For many that’s positive but for some it goes too far. It takes over their life and endangers the very body they’re honing to perfection. This can lead to eating disorders and steroid abuse. On the flipside, Australians are among the fattest people on Earth with seven out of ten males either overweight or obese and women not far behind. How does body obsession affect a nation that is increasingly either too buff or too big? triple j’s Hack host Tom Tilley moderates a live television event and social media experience to find out whether Australians are too obsessed with their bodies.

9:35pm ABC2 tonight.