even forcing her players to serve her meals. >> where's the bread? where's the bread? [ bleep ]. >> i'll see you back here at the top of the hour, but, first, sanjay gupta m.d. starts right now. hello, thanks for joining us. could everyone benefit from going gluten free? some answers ahead. the final four, we all cringed when kevin ware went down on the court. exactly what surgeons did to fix his leg. one thing you can do today to lower your kids' risk of heart disease. a federal judge ruled the so-called morning after pill could be sold over the counter to everyone at any age. previously prescription only if you were under 17. planned b is called emergency cont contraception and one in nine

women age 15 to 44 have used it. elizabeth cohen joins me. you have been following the story and the story is interesting because the judge said there is no real reason it should be sold over the counter. what are you hear aing from your doctor sources? >> what he basically said is, look, the fda is charged with deciding if it is safe and effective. if it is safe and effective for 17 and older, it is safe for 17 and younger. it works the same in a women's body. safe and effective no matter what age. therefore, it should be available over the counter to anyone at any age? >> still some require a prescription. >> if you're not going to require a prescription for 17 and older, why are you requiring a prescription for younger than that. the obama administration said they were worried the younger girls wouldn't know how to take it. >> i want to introduce you to a woman named brooke mackie.

brooke, thanks for joining us. you've, obviously, been following the story and this is so personally relevant to you. you told us when you were a young teenager, you needed plan b but couldn't get it. can you explain what was going on? >> sure. i would like to say that i've been following the events in this case because i'm part of a group called national women's liberation that has been fighting for ten years to get the morning after pill over the counter. i am personally impacted because, as a teenager, i did need the morning after pill. i was someone who had unprotected sex. i wasn't able to ask my mom because i, personally, couldn't go to my parent and say that i needed to get the morning after pill. for most teenagers, i would think for all teenagers that the only way to get access to a

doctor, to get access to a prescription is to go with your parent and access their health insurance. so, rather than take, rather than go to my mom and ask to go to the doctor because i just had sex, i took all of her birth control pills and used them as a morning after pill. although, as an adult, i also have needed the morning after pill and still faced the requirement of having to show an i.d., find a pharmacy that is open and a pharmacist that will give it to me. >> these are tough conversations. i mean, elizabeth and i are going to talk about in a second. i have three daughters and she has four daughters and we think about this a lot. i know you advocate for the plan b to be available with no limitations, but what do you think now that a little bit of time has passed the parents' point of view is in all this? >> restricting people who can be pregnant that that line of a woman or a young girl who

doesn't have control over her body, who can't make a very basic decision on whether or not she will have a child. that that is something that each women, each girl should be able to decide on her own. >> elizabeth, what are the health concerns? we are talking about any women of any child bearing age. we're talking young girls here. are there any concern concern? >> there aren't very many side effects to these pills and usually something like a headache or dizziness or nauza. not major side effects. you're usually taking this within 24 hours of having sex. not when you think about an abortion many months later, it is very different. >> the critics say this is an abortion pill, you've heard that terminology thrown around. how does it work in the body? >> tells the ovary, hey, don't release an egg. this pill is basically a high-powered birth control pill.

also keep egg and sperm away from each other and also keep a fertilized egg from implanting into a woman's uterine wall and that's the one people get upset about. some people consider that abortion. you have the fertilized egg and the drug says, hey, don't implant. >> the egg has been fertilized at that point. >> yeah. >> impossible question and you probably think about this because you're a parent and i have three daughters myself. the psychological impact of having the child be talking to the parents about this. an uncomfortable conversation. i don't want to have it with my daughters, but what do you think? >> i talk to my teenage girls about sex and, you know, i told them, i want you to come to me and talk to us and i think that's the conversation you need to have. i mean, if my daughter, god forbid, were to go out and take this drug at the age of 15, the drug itself wouldn't really bother me. i don't think it will hurt her, but the fact that she needed it. that is what would bother me.

i think the conversation we should be having is how do we keep 15 year olds from having sex in the first place. >> having the conversation ahead of time. we have these conversations in the throws of something. think about this quite a bit, so, thank you. you might have heard this. a type of food getting a bad rap from a lot of people. gluten. is this just a fad? gwyneth paltrow, miley cyrus have gone gluten free and even oprah tried giving up gluten for a cleansing diet. it's found in wheat and other grains like pasta and bread. >> if you're gluten intolerant, you spend half of your dinner looking for gluten free items on the menu. >> reporter: gluten free foods and diet books are now part of a $6 billion industry. but is the fuss worth it? dr. larry spurling wanted to

know. he's on a yearly panel that examines panels? >> unless you have a true gluten allergy, there is nothing magical about it. >> reporter: for people with celiac disease they can't digest gluten even in a microscopic amount. >> celiac disease is a disease of inflammation of the intestines and, so, it can produce intestine-like symptoms, upset stomach, diarrhea. >> reporter: long term, it can also lead to osteoporosis and even cancer. it can be identified through a blood test, but not so with gluten sensitivity. here's where it gets complicated. some doctors say people who are just sensitive can trigger headaches and eczema and a host of other chronic problems.

a handful of studies show that 6% of the population may have this sensitivity but some doctors suspect it may be much more common. joining me now, dr. arthur agson and has a new book out called "south beach diet gluten solution." thanks for joining me. you are one of my favorite guests. you helped me so much with my own health. i appreciate that. this particular book, you say gluten, the thing about gluten-free diets may be a trend, but something to it for most people. >> number one, it's real. and people wonder if it can be affecting me. we think it is affecting the majority of women in this country and a lot of men. so, it is the real deal. >> you say just try it. try it for a period of time and see how you feel. >> first, you have to make sure you don't have celiac disease. that's like a nut allergy. if you get a little gluten,

you're in trouble. usually bad g.i. symptoms associated with that. most people will test negative for celiac disease. there are simple blood tests for screening. for gluten sensitivity, there's no test and you just have to get off gluten for a while. >> so, having troubles and pretty significant, you should get tested and a blood test is pretty accurate? >> the screening blood test for celiac. if you have celiac, you have to be very, very strict about gluten. but if not, you have to be what we call gluten aware. everybody will have a different threshold for how much gluten they can tolerate. like lactose intallgence. they can tolerate milk in their coffee but they have an ice cream sundae and they're up all night. it helps you determine where you fall on the spectrum. a lot of people fall some place, when you talk about this, is there a period of time where you know. a lot of people out there who just have some symptoms and they

think, oh, i don't think that's gluten, but how long before they know it's actually working? >> gi problems and things like reflux, energy focus and you'll often know in a few days. our program recommends being gluten free for a month. fairly strict the first month. easy to be gluten free for a month and hard to be gluten free for your whole life. once you know it is affecting you, add back whole grains gradually and see what your threshold is. >> find your sweet spot. thanks for joining us. always interesting and i think it's so actionable, the things you talk about, as well. >> great to be back with you. >> good luck with the book. up next, we're exploring what happens to your food after you gulp it down. mary roach joins us. [ male announcer ] this is betsy.

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science writer. pretty good moniker. mary roach. she's written about the science of sex and the curious science of life of the void. her latest book out this week is "gulp: adventures on the elementary canal". it's one of those words i always saw written, but had a hard time. elementary. >> you can say it however you want. >> how did you decide on this topic? >> okay, i'm going to tell you this. i was talking with a reader who happened to be a gastrointerologist. we were talking about the whole digestive tract. he says -- he goes, think of it. nobody appreciates their digestive tract. the human anus, this is a rim of muscle, the nerve that can discriminate between solid, liquid, and gas and selectively decide what to let go.

he was like no one appreciates their parts, okay? it's pretty miraculous. >> maybe you don't want to talk about it. you said people like what they eat rather than eat what they like. what does that mean? >> that has to do with the fact that we talk about if someone's a picky eater and trying to change people's eating habits, if you get somebody to just eat it a few times, they'll say they like it. there's a study about women in this -- women's college who, they ask them do you like evaporated milk? and only 15% said they liked it. they fed it to them 16 times and they asked them, do you like evaporated milk? now 51% say yeah, i do. so whatever is in front of you, if you eat it enough, you tend to like it. if you can get somebody to try something -- >> culturally foods are so different as well. i guess that would explain in part why some foods are so palatable versus other cultures. >> well, up until the age of about 2, you can get kids to try

almost anything. there was a psychologist who did this wonderful study where he presented babies with a number of very off putting things like a cracker with ketchup, or fish eggs. and one was fake dog doo. and up through the age of two years, you could get the kids to try pretty much everything. the dog doo, it wasn't real, it was made with peanut butter, the smell came from cheese and they made this whole concoction. but the kids were like yeah, i'll try that. >> people always ask me this. i'll get your take on it. the stomach itself, you have all this digestive acid. why doesn't it digest itself? >> my understanding is in fact it does, but it also is very good at rebuilding its own lining. so you have a new lining every three days or so. >> sloughing off. >> yeah. because the acid does do its job

even on your own stomach, because you would think you can eat tripe and you eat other stomach and digest it, why don't you digest your own? >> did your diet change while writing this book or afterward? >> i'm careful with hot dogs. >> i really enjoy you and i enjoy your books very much. i'm honored that you would join us. >> thank you so much. coming up, it is final four weekend. one of my favorite weekends. i'm going to show you exactly how surgeons repaired the pretty shocking broken leg of louisville basketball guard kevin ware. stay with us. [ female announcer ] when a woman wears a pad she can't always move the way she wants. now you can.

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and we are back with sjmd. kevin ware broke his lower right leg in two places this week.

his shinbone in fact actually broke through the skin. it was so gruesome, too gruesome to really show again on television, but you get the idea of what happened. you could see the looks on his teammates faces and really everyone else nearby. it was a pretty unusual injury. appears he jumped quite significantly horizontally and vertically and landed in an awkward position. look at the lower bones over here. this is the knee up here. obviously the ankle. this is the tibia bone and then the fibula. and both these bones were broken as a result of that jump. show you an x-ray now. this is sort of illustrated, this isn't his x-ray specifically, but keep in mind the picture you just saw and you see the fracture here, and then you see another fracture down here. this is the skin. and you can actually see the bone coming through the skin there. when that happens there's a big risk of infection as well. and one of the keys is you got to operate, but you've got to do it even more quickly because of that risk of infection. show you something here, to reset a break like the one you

see there, they put in a metal rod. looks sort of like this. the inside of the bone is sort of more hollow. it has some space in there, so they're able to thread this up through the top of the bone and reconnect the two pieces. and eventually the hope is that they heal back or fuse back together. this is a pretty rare thing and it's a gruesome injury really, but they do say kevin ware -- this wasn't a career ender for him although a season ender for sure. from college to the pros. you might think being a professional athlete and also having multiple sclerosis that those two things would be mutually exclusive. but last month chris wright broke that barrier when he got a call with the dallas mavericks. and he stuck with the team for ten days. with less than three minutes left in the game against the atlanta hawks, dallas mavericks point guard chris wright is in

the game. playing in the nba has been his lifelong dream, but it almost didn't come true. >> while i was shooting my whole right leg went numb. right foot went numb. basically it all went up to the right side of my body. >> last year wright was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, m.s., a disease that damages the protective covering of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. it's a disease he had never heard of. >> i didn't know what it was. i kind of was being positive about it. once i found out i was still being positive. okay. i just have to do what i have to do to maintain my life. >> doctors told wright he would never play basketball again, but he responded well to treatment. and less than three months after his diagnosis, wright was back on the court. he made history when he signed a ten-day contract with the dallas mavericks becoming the first person with m.s. to play in the nba. while it may have only been a short stint, wright believes this won't be the last time

he'll play in the nba. >> everything happens for a reason. and everything you go through, it's not a coincidence. and it happened during m.s. awareness week. everything kind of fell into place. >> monthly treatments are keeping his m.s. from progressing. and he's not shying away from his diagnosis. wright says he's proud to be the face of m.s. and still ahead, how to not be duped by product packaging when you visit the grocery store. stay with us. ♪ if loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal -- heart-healthy, whole grain oats. you can't go wrong loving it.

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when it comes to sodium, we simply eat too much. on average about four grams per day as an adult. we really need about half that, about two grams per day. there was a study that came out that said if you get down to two grams per day, we could potentially save about 150,000 lives a year simply from that one thing. frozen foods, they're going to have a lot of sodium in there for lots of different reasons, but mainly because sodium is a good preservative. that's why it's in there. also canned foods. a lot of parents, again like me, will go to canned foods, the problem is you get about 950 grams, almost a gram of sodium just from something like this. far too much for an adult. and far too much for most kids as well. cereals also obviously an important food choice for many homes. make sure to read those labels again. one thing about reading labels as well, when you're reading labels, try and find foods or foods like this that have less

than five ingredients. that's really going to help. when it comes to the sodium, one thing we do in our house, we never leave crackers or cookies in a big box. we pour a little into a small bowl and that's important to find salt substitutes as well. we don't leave salt shakers out. but if you find a substitute like this, no salt for example, or just some flavorings, you can both cut down on sodium, increase potassium and possibly solve a lot of those problems. all those shopping tips are especially important for your kids because too much sodium can hurt them the most. and it's not just the salt shaker on the table. it can be a lot of processed frozen foods. a recent cdc study found 75% of meals targeted to kids have way too much salt. there's no specific regulation on this. and blood pressure of kids in the studies who ate the diets high in salt, they were seven times higher than in kids who didn't. high blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, something to be mindful of. that's going to wrap