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to the obesity problem?
Ingestion of all calories
contributes to the obesity problem.
contribute more so
than do other calories.
That's a very
challenging question to ask.
Well, let me ask you that.
Do they?
It's a good question.
There's reasons to believe they might.
But I don't think the evidence
is quite clear. For example...
And what would be
the science behind that?
Well, the ideal study might be
requiring people to, uh, uh...
Excuse me. Let me start again on that.
Let me just get my thoughts together.
Okay.
We know sugared
beverage consumption
is producing diabetes and obesity.
It's just ridiculous
to think otherwise.
And, of course, research shows
it to be the case.
to industry-funded studies
that show the opposite.
If you're peddling Coca-Cola,
Pepsi, sugar water, Gatorade,
you don't want your food to be
considered inherently fattening,
just as the tobacco industry
would have preferred
that their product not been considered
inherently capable of causing cancer.
But just like cigarettes
literally cause lung cancer,
certain foods literally
make you fat.
This is a big bag.
What did you have for lunch?
- Let's tell the truth.
- Um...
Hamburger. French fries.
Milk and juice.
- Milk and juice?
- They give them both.
If you ever go on a diet,
and you try to eat healthier food,
your brain's still
telling you "Eat, eat, eat.
It's not what I want.
No, get something else."
You're still used to
that fattening stuff.
That's why it's hard
to go on a diet.
You ain't got
but a few more to go.
This time of night
you don't eat that many.
- Gotta savor the flavor.
'cause you only get so many chips.
I'm trying to lose weight.
My weight is pretty heavy. 180.
I'm a pretty heavy dude.
That's why I try to get exercise in,
eat some healthy food every day.
We, um,
started eating different things,
more fruits and vegetables.
We limit our starches.
We limit our breads.
We keep healthier snacks.
He loves Hot Pockets.
So they have Lean Hot Pockets.
So I make sure to have the lean ones
versus the regular ones.
It costs more to eat healthier.
So we slip. And I'm not
gonna say we don't.
Because it's easier to go in there
and buy the cereals with sugar in it.
It's easier to buy chips,
because it's cheaper.
And that's what the food industry
wants them to think.
They want them to think
it's cheaper.
KFC Family Feast.
Nine pieces, any recipe,
three large sides,
six biscuits, 19.99.
Do not give up on dinner. Mm.
You can get a "value meal."
These are messages that have
kind of gotten embedded
into our culture,
into their thinking.
But there is well-documented
scientific proof
that you can eat well for less,
and they don't know that.
Okay, we're gonna be
in room number nine.
Just come right in.
And it'll be just a moment, okay?
How is the diet control going?
Diet control for him
is getting... is better.
At first it was rocky,
but it's a lot better.
I'm happy to hear that you think
things are going so well,
but it's a bit concerning,
because when I look at Wesley,
he doesn't look any thinner.
In fact, he actually looks bigger
than he did a few years ago.
And what I see from the data is...
is that he's continued
to gain weight
even faster than the rate
that he was before.
His weight is even higher
than it was last time.
I've eaten less than I usually have.
I've exercised more.
And I don't really know
why I'm getting more weight.
Mom, have you noticed
that his skin here...
is starting to get a little bit dark
and a little bit thick.
It's part of what we call
metabolic syndrome.
Oh. Okay.
His body is already starting to show
some of the adult signs
of overweight and obesity.
I worry about that I might have
a heart attack or a seizure,
or something like that
I've seen these things on the news.
And I've seen my family
have had it too.
And I'm worried
myself might have it.
So relax your arm and your leg.
And take some deep breaths.
And here we go.
It's not just genetics.
We're seeing strokes in eight-year-olds.
We're seeing heart attacks
in 20-year-olds.
We're seeing kids at 30,
by their 30th birthday needing
renal dialysis for kidney failure
because of these problems.
Genetics are a very
important part of this
and certainly
there are people
who are genetically susceptible
and genetically prone.
But genetics is not
what this is about.
When I was young,
the obesity rates
among children.
There's been a stunning increase.
We haven't had this situation
throughout the whole history of mankind
until the past 30, 40 years.
Most experts say the obesity epidemic
really has taken place
in the last 30 years or so.
Looking back, do you think
there's anything
that your administration
or other administrations
could have done to prevent this?
I don't know.
I missed it sort of.
We knew that...
We had an effort to try to increase
the exercise programs in the schools
and improve the cafeteria requirements
but I don't think we appreciated
the magnitude of it.
We've got all these kids, even preteens,
with type 2 diabetes now.
That used to be called
adult-onset diabetes.
It was unheard of
for young people to get it.
And it's becoming a big problem
in other parts of the world.
Second-fastest growing area...
Middle East and North Africa.
It's not only a personal tragedy
for a lot of young people
and interferes with their quality
of life, their mobility,
but it will lead to
enormous complications for us.
As physicians, we know how to take care
of a 50-year-old or 60-year-old
with type 2 diabetes.
What none of us have done is to
take care of that 10-year-old
with type 2 diabetes
for five, six, seven decades.
We don't know
the consequences of that.
And that scares me greatly.
If there's a moment
in time marking the start
of the obesity epidemic,
it's 1977, the McGovern Report.
The Senate Special Committee
on Nutrition
is looking into the connection
between heart disease and diet.
committee on nutrition and human needs
warned Senator George McGovern
the number one form of malnutrition
in the United States.
When we get the kind of
overwhelming consensus
that has developed
before this committee
it seems to me we have some obligation
to share that with the American people.
With predictions
of rising medical cost,
the committee issued the very first
dietary goals for Americans
noting that our diet had become
overly rich in fatty meats,
rich in saturated fats
and cholesterol,
and rich in sugar.
The egg, sugar, dairy
and beef associations
in danger, united,
and flat-out rejected
the McGovern Report.
They even demanded a rewrite.
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