Bodyshock
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The World's Biggest Boy
Wed 29 Aug 2007 10pm
At just seven years old Dzhambulat Khatokhov – Jambik for short – is four feet three inches tall and weighs 16 stone: as much as a baby elephant.
He dwarfs his older brother who is twice his age and less than half his weight. But Jambik is a hero in his home town and an object of fascination in the West.
In BodyShock: Worlds Biggest Boy, British doctor Ian Campbell travels to the far south of Russia to meet Jambik and his family and uncovers a more disturbing story than he originally imagined.
Nobody knows why Jambik is so big, or what this means for his long-term health. But Dr Campbell – one of the world's leading experts on obesity – is determined to find out.
Travelling over 2,000 miles to the Caucasus Mountains in Southern Russia, Campbell meets the "biggest boy in the world" to see what, if anything, can be done for his condition.
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