Pixie McKenna on Super Size Ireland: Eat less and exercise more

Straight-talking Dr Pixie McKenna is unflappable on Channel 4 TV show, Embarrassing Fat Bodies, but off-screen the Cork native is fearful of the health implications of the expanding Irish waistline.

The number of overweight children here has tripled in the past 30 years, and Dr McKenna’s diagnosis is candid. “People eat too much. They eat too much of the wrong thing and they don’t exercise,” she says.

Until recently, she commuted weekly from the UK to her clinic in Glasheen, where her father, a GP, served the community for 43 years.