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two out of every three Americans

were either overweight or obese.

So how is it possible...

that the enormous rise

of the fitness revolution.

almost exactly mirrored

the rise in obesity rates.

Something is making that happen.

The question is, how is that happening

in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia,

Sweden, Norway, South Africa

and everywhere else.

And we have obese

six-month-olds.

You want to tell me that

they're supposed to diet and exercise?

So, how our politicians

can continue

to espouse this same mantra...

"Diet and exercise,

you are what you eat, it's your fault"

is absolutely beyond me.

I am 12 years old,

and I weigh 212 pounds.

My doctors have said

that I am a statistic.

I don't really know what it means.

I think it has something

to do with my weight.

They normally say that

I'm just supposed to eat healthier

and exercise a lot more,

which is what I am doing.

I swim four days a week

and then walking my dogs

on the weekends.

We didn't really start to worry

about it until I think she was eight,

um, when the doctor wanted us

to seek a nutritionist

to kind of address the issue.

And I just remember at that time

we called the nutritionist

that he wanted us to

and we were told, "We don't

see children that young."

It has to do

a lot with their self-esteem,

especially with girls once they hit

their teenage years

because, "Oh, I'm the fat kid,

and I always have to

consciously watch what I eat."

My doctor, um...

he told me to join

Weight Watchers,

um, and I can't,

because I'm not old enough yet.

Then we stopped at that point

and said, you know what?

We know... We have the tools.

We know what we're supposed to do.

Let's just try

and do it ourselves.

Some of the things that I do

when I look for healthier choices

is doing the reduced fat...

It's got more fiber in it.

It's made with more whole grains.

I look at the fat content,

but cereal, by its very nature,

is generally pretty low in fat.

So cereal's a good go-to

for pretty much any meal replacement.

I know what my family will eat,

and I try and consider that

when I'm purchasing things.

I would expect that, since I'm

eating healthy and exercising a lot,

that I would be able to lose

more weight than I am.

But my weight has mostly

stayed the same.

So, sometimes it gets

a little bit frustrating.

This whole generation of kids,

they're doing their best.

They're torturing themselves

to do the cure that we tell them,

and it's the wrong cure.

And we're blaming the willpower,

the moral fortitude of these kids,

and it's a crime.

There is a solution to obesity.

It's energy balance.

It's balancing calories in

and calories out.

We're eating and drinking too

much and not getting enough exercise.

We will have

to have greater emphasis

on getting that energy balance.

Nowadays there's this phrase,

"Let's practice energy balance."

Okay, we're gonna make sure

that we know how to match

the calories in

to the calories out

so that we don't get fat.

It's nonsense.

You eat, say,

110 bites of food a day,

and you only burn off 109 of them,

you're gonna get obese in 20 years.

Even if there's a Guinness world record

holder of calorie counting,

calories in to the calories out,

nobody can do it.

3:
40.

- What do you have next?

- Next I have swim team.

We certainly don't want to discourage

people from exercising

or underplay the importance

of physical activity to health,

but we are not gonna exercise

our way out of this obesity problem.

To burn off just one 20-ounce Coke,

a child would have to bike

for an hour and 15 minutes.

Most people don't have

that much time in their day.

So if you burn

a calorie sleeping,

or you burn a calorie exercising,

it's still a calorie burned.

The question is, is a calorie eaten

a calorie eaten.

And for that we have

really good data.

And it says a calorie

is not a calorie.

Why is a calorie not a calorie?

All right.

Let's give you an example.

Let's take an easy one.

Let's take almonds.

If you consume 160 calories

in almonds,

because of the fiber

in the almonds,

the food is not going

to get absorbed immediately.

So your blood sugar rise

is gonna be a lot lower,

it's gonna be for longer.

So what's the opposite of the almond?

Well, the opposite of the almond

would be a soft drink.

Because there's no fiber,

they get absorbed straight

through the portal system to the liver.

The liver gets this big sugar rush.

And when your liver

gets that onslaught,

it has no choice but to

turn it into fat immediately.

So, 160 calories in almonds,

or 160 calories in soda.

You tell me which is better.

For over 125 years,

we've been bringing people together.

And yet we are

continually being sold

a message contrary to the science.

...on something

that concerns all of us... obesity.

Our weight, we're told,

comes down to calories

in and calories out.

One simple, common sense fact.

All calories count, no matter

where they come from,

including Coca-Cola

and everything else with calories.

And if you eat and drink more calories

than you burn off, you'll gain weight.

Well, one thing

we need to understand,

that the food industry is really

at the heart of this problem.

We're handing the industry a big gift

in that they get to confuse the issue

by talking about exercise.

It's all about the spin, right?

So the food industry is good at

kind of taking half-truths

and then stretching them.

Food companies are interested

in selling more food.

That's their job

as a corporation.

And one way to do that

is to co-opt potential critics.

The soft drink companies

fund research in universities.

They donate

to professional societies.

And, in fact, I just saw

a new major analysis

that says that soft drinks

have nothing to do with obesity.

And the study was sponsored

in part by Coca-Cola.

We haven't heard this

kind of association before.

It's the American Academy

of Family Physicians.

They have partnered up with...

Coca-Cola, which...

You know...

Yeah, definitely a head-scratcher.

Immediately after Coke's announcement,

a group of 20 doctors who helped make up

the American Academy

of Family Physicians publicly resigned.

How can any organization that claims

to promote public health

join forces with a company that promotes

products that put our children at risk?

But not all doctors

see it the same way,

particularly those whose research

is funded by the industry.

Even though

study after study has shown soda

to be a significant contributor

to America's staggering obesity crisis.

Dr. Allison says there's not enough

"solid evidence."

But his critics say Allison

is motivated by something else...

by all the money

he has repeatedly taken.

from Coca-Cola, Pepsi.

and the American Beverage Association.

I know you've received a lot of

money from the food industry in general.

Was there evidence that said the

ingestion of sugary beverages

actually contributed

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