a sensor detects inside the if they're eating a high sugar diaper and sends a message to mom or dad that it's time to diet they're sick. they may actually be cursed in a worst way than the person that gains weight. change said diaper. when they get on the scale they the humidity thing i get. don't have a warning sign. it's moisture related. when you get on a scale when you but my question is, if it tweets have a problem you're warned. for pee, what does it do when >> right. >> the bell's been run. the baby drops a deuce? >> -- rung. post a picture on instagram? >> how much is general mobility the issue? i hope not. if you did an hour of brisk now your mother is totally walking a day, a lot of doctors tell me that coupled with a electronic and interactive. reasonable diet is more than your baby has a diaper sense or enough exercise. >> it can't hurt. and your toothbrush is cyber but look you're going to be on bullying you. tour de france in order to amass the kind of calorie burning that strange times in which we live on "the ridiculist." you're going to need to that does it for us. thanks for watching. compensate for the kind of "piers morgan live" starts now. overconsumption that you can be led into having. >> so diet is the key? this is a "piers morgan >> yes. live" special. controlling the intake. >> portions. >> yes. portions. losing it. america's fat obsession. welcome to our viewers in the >> americans have huge portions. united states and around the >> yes. world and to our studio >> michael moss the book "salt audience. tonight the weight of a nation sugar fat kw" available now. bursting at seams. an estimated 19 million americans are now obese. terrific read. taking a heavy toll on lives and your web site is doctor joe colella.com.

of course health. she's trained gwyneth who's to blame and what's to be paltrow and new mom kim done? tonight the answers you need, kardashian. she's got lots of stories to tell. my next guest. the solutions that should work. all on tonight's special report "losing it, america's fat "losing it, america's fat obsession." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. you may not like counting calories but numbers tough to swallow, more than 78 million adults and more than 12 1/2 million children are obese in america right now. although there are some encouraging signs that trend is reversing in the youngest of children. do extreme measures work? they do for governor chris christie. he's slimmed down since undergoing lap band surgery in february. hillary clinton consulting a diet guru looking to stay fit for a possible white house run in 2016. what should the rest of us do? tonight we're here to help with doctors, experts and personal trainers including the one working with new mom kim kardashian. bet she's got some stories to tell. let's get started with my

favorite subject, food. with me is chef and "new york times" best-selling author rocco de spirito. author of "now eat this italian." >> we put you to the test. i thought this guy, rocco, he's a good-looking guy and cooks italian food. i'm going to put him to the real test. how to make me eat low calorie food and actually enjoy it. so you sent round to my apartment in new york all this stuff. >> all this food. one day's worth of food. >> i thought this is weird. this has got popcorn, caramel, chocolates. puddings. >> it looks like the worst stuff you could eat. >> looks like stuff that would pile on the pounds. let's go through the total here. what was the total in calories? >> let's see if the audience can guess all the calories here. six meals. tangerine how many? >> 500. >> come on. >> be serious.

>> 2500 is closer. in fact it's only 850 calories. 850 calories. >> that's an amazing thing. >> all of this. >> i have to say this also. i'm not saying it because -- i've never met you before. i've ben on some of these things before. you get sent the sort of food by these diet companies. >> right. diet delivery services. >> and it tastes horrible. >> the problem with diet food it tastes like diet food. that's why no one wants to be on the diet. as you know, america's got talents and we are the world champs in obesity. we are the number one most obese country in the world. and some statistics you may not know, 67% of america is overweight, half of those people are obese. one in four children by the end of the decade will be considered obese. more americans die of obesity-related illnesses than everything else combined. it is time to do something about this. we spend more money on our health care system than the entire gdp of france! think about that. >> amazing. >> we're getting nowhere. >> let's go through this. >> the food you sent me.

i was fascinating by the quality of the food to taste. incredibly tasty, i enjoyed all of it. i ate all of this. let's go through and do what you would presume the calorie count to be with what it actually was. >> this is a my protein chocolate smoothie. great thing to start in the morning. most full of fat sugar. this one sugar and fat free. 30 grams of protein, right amount to start your day with. normally 500, this one's only 198. 3 grams of fat. >> good. >> you like ham and cheese, i made you a ham and cheese omelet. made with egg whites normally we go to arms without any about 800 calories. resistance. now i'm taking three-pound 85 calories. >> properly tafty food. >> i made you a beet and weights. only three pounds weights. no one should lift more than three pounds. >> that's fitness guru tracy anderson working out with gwyneth paltrow getting her back gorgonzola salad. into shape. she has company. normally 840. 237 calories. clients courtney cox, j-lo and >> normally italians consume a lot of calories. >> the pasta is made with flour

almost 300 calories in and of new mom kim kardashian. itself. this pasta is actually -- it's tracy how are you? >> i'm good. how are you? puree'ed chicken breast. >> every time i see a celebrity puree'ed chicken breast mixed having a baby and they look with egg white, powder, water. after three months like a stick again. they say reshaped and retrained by tracy anderson. 100% protein carb free pasta what do you do to these poor women? >> i support them. bolonese. that would be 710. i tell them the truth. it's now 190 calories carb free. i give them the tools to get the how does it taste? >> great. >> these numbers don't matter if results that they hope to get out of their hard work. it doesn't taste good. as women we're doing a lot in this world to support a lot of there's plenty of healthy food people. out there that tastes awful. if we want to look like our best that's the reason no one wants to eat it. versions of ourselves and feel >> now let's get to the reality comfortable in our own skin we of this. which is if you have that in a deserve that. restaurant you'd be looking at a >> gwyneth paltrow says you've given her a 22-year-old certain price. stripper's butt. people would pay a lot of money for that quality of food. >> i actually have. >> that's right. >> what can you prepare all that [ laughter ] stuff for if you're at home? >> we've done that together. what people are thinking >> she did the work. watching this. >> before and after numbers. >> women in the audience say i if you were going to buy this 6 want a stripper's butt. to $10. how do you get one? >> didn't we give them dvds? we made it for 2.92. this omelet would be about from >> stall surprise them. 6 to $9. we made it for 1.88. we have a little gift. i will bring the surprise if you were going to buy this in forward.

a restaurant, at least $12. tracy very kindly is giving if you went to some upper east side place maybe $35. everybody an metamorphosis we made it for $4.43. program. [ cheers and applause ] so this myth that is highly >> for all of you. annoying to me that healthy is so if you'd all like to come expensive, it's time to bust the back and see me again in three myth that healthy is expensive. months you'll all have >> the crucial thing to me about stripper's butts which is great. you, rocco, i was fascinated by >> they're all getting stripper's butts. better than. >> kim kardashian, i know you don't want to get into the how tauft tast tasty the food w. details of what she's going had it been quite bland i would through. but i would assume pretty have said you know what, this is similar for all people who have why i can't do this. just had a baby. this is why i'll carry on what are the key things women who have had a baby need to do spending a fortune. quite quickly to get rid of the baby fat and so on? >> you'd have mario vitali on. >> but it was genuinely tasty >> well, right now kim is doing what she should be doing, which food and very low calorie and is bonding with her baby. very low-cost if you do it at she's a first-time mom so she's home. how do you persuade america, and enjoying that. and i think one of the things americans, who from my that people are always alarmed experience as a brit coming here with with me is i'm like, no, eat gargantuan portions of relax. get into the routine. everything. cheese has to be on everything. enjoy the baby. potatoes come with everything even when you don't order it. the body is what comes next. everything's huge and vast like so if you are able to nurse, the country itself. then that's a great thing. how do you culturally change

that kind of thinking and the because that's nature's way of fast food epidemic and so on to get them to start to cook at starting to get everything back home in a way that can produce into position. but the thing about nursing is this kind of result? that we are designed to have >> it's an unbelievably more than one baby. difficult question to answer. but i think what we're doing so we'll only bring things back right now is part of it. so far but not all the way. we need a cultural revolution. so you do have to face exercise the hippies did it in the 60s with sex. they also did it with food, by eventually. but right now, kim is in baby the way. they cooked homegrown, locally made food. >> do you have better sex on your food, rocco? heaven. >> you obviously deal with i >> one of the reasons i got guess the more glamorous end of healthy my sex wasn't as good as it should be. the american shape market in the [ laughter ] >> i went to the doctor and he's sense you're dealing with top like you're about 40 pounds celebrities. it's a business to be in great shape. what do you think is the formula overweight. >> how old are you? >> i'm 46 years old. for regular americans who may be >> you're 46. i'm 48. struggling a bit with their >> okay. >> i look about like your weight? what is the best formula in granddad. so let's start again terms of how many times should you work out a week, what kind [ laughter ] >> i'm two years difference. you're 6'1" right? of workout should you be doing, >> 6'1". >> i am, too. you were at your heaviest how and what kind of diet should you combine it with if you want to much? >> almost 230. get reasonable results? 228. >> i'm about 218, all right? maybe lose eight, nine pounds or >> okay. >> but still too heavy. whatever it may be? >> yeah. >> about 28% body fat. that's a really great question. >> right. you had a medical where it said because the formula is key. sort of bad cholesterol and and the ratio is key. slightly high blood pressure. and also enjoying life is key.

>> he said if i do the numbers we are emotionally programmed to you're in deep you know what. writing prescriptions. love food. we're emotionally programmed to he takes out his pen. love certain foods by the time you need this for your high blood pressure. we're seven years old. this for your cholesterol. food is a big part of who we you need this other one for your high blood pressure. he starts talking about side effects. it shocked the hell out of me. >> what did you do? >> i was 35 years old and i was already being told that i'm in danger of heart disease. and as he's writing these and are. and so many people now are losing all of the spark behind their eyes everyone is running handing them to me out of around starving and cranky and desperation i say what else can cutting out food groups and all kind of things. we are meant to move, connect to our bodies. i do? he said well you can try diet or exercise is vital to our health. and the idea of exercising three exercise. but here you go no one ever does days a week is not enough. that. >> i thought it was an epiphany and it's something that you need for me. i thought keep those. to do six days a week, five to i'm really going to try it. he's like no one does it. six days a week. everyone says they're going to because you need to connect with do it. a year later i did ironman 70.3 your body daily. you are how you move. so this notion of exercise in st. croix and finished. creating even further imbalance in our bodies by us bulking up winning is impossible but i finished a 70-mile exercise in certain muscles or overusing certain muscles is also not the answer. because it doesn't lend to the self-d self-discipline. when i went back to the doctor body that we desire. he said you've made your body and it also causes injury and like a 18-year-old inside and all different kinds of things in

out. >> how much did you lose? many circumstances. and a lot of that pounding and >> 40 pounds. a chubby chef with a crooked in the same way is hard to do, quite frankly. spine and flat feet who could totally get away with it. >> tracy, you've performed miracles on these celebrities. it's not like girls weren't if i ever have the time i will attracted to me or anything -- come and be beasted by you there was any down side other myself and get myself the than health. if i could do it surrounded by 22-year-old stripper's butt which will be quite something. all that food and wine, anyone i thank you very much indeed for joining me. can do it. >> oh, my goodness. i am surrounded by the most i'm going to take you up on delicious food available on the that. i'm not kidding. planet every day of my life. >> consider me to be your if i can do it, anyone can do ultimate challenge. [ laughter ] >> for more information check it. >> well, i have tasted your out tracy anderson. stuff. and i'm going to do it. >> i am launching a men's program. >> okay. that's how much of a passion i i can be your flagship. have for what you do. >> i love it. why not? unless you think the body's you'll lose up to a pound a day if you follow my instructions. already too perfect to work >> okay. with. my next guest lost 245 pounds. i would quite understand that. you probably know how he did it. >> your brain's quite perfect. >> thank you, tracy. he only ate subway sandwiches. >> we'll get you the body to match that. jared fogle is the subway guy >> thank you. [ applause ] >> i knew i liked her. and joins me now. anyway, for more information how are you? check out >> i'm doing great, piers. how are you? tracyandersonmethod.com. >> you're this guy who announced as i say we'll get bodies by he'd been eating a lot of subways and lost a lot of of tracy. thank you very much, tracy. weight. before we know it subway's coming up next, the latest business was completely and greatest workout.

transformed. they ended up making $8 billion what's behind the new fitness crazes and do they work. or something ridiculous. you made yourself a millionaire. [ applause ] do you still eat subway sandwiches? >> i do. i don't eat it every single day every emotion i still have. anymore. >> you better. >> exactly. in moderation. i'll tell you. i've kept the weight off now for 15 years. and i've learned how to handle i still probably average eating certain issues and not to run to it three or four days a week. that for comfort. i travel almost 200 days a year no matter how busy your morning you can always do something better for yourself. as part of my job and what i do with subway. i have to be obviously pretty careful especially on the road. >> what is the question you get asked most by people? >> well, i think they always want to know did you really do it? i think people are still sort of fascinated by that. losing 245 pounds in a year. and better is so easy with benefiber. but then i think the other one i always get asked how do you keep fiber that's taste-free, grit-free and dissolves completely. it off. i think we all know how to lose so you can feel free to add it to anything. weight. a million ways to lose weight and feel better about doing it. but keeping the weight off is better it with benefiber. the hardest part especially in this country. what i tell people i still eat subway occasionally but learn to eat in moderation. i try to get my ex ersuz in on a pretty regular basis. there's always excuses. you can have a million excuses but you got to put up and do it.

>> i went to my trainer today, genuine story. he said wow, you're looking pumped. i was really thrilled. he said why are you so happy? i said you said i looked pumped. he said no plump [ laughter ] >> i had been back home. >> americans pronunciation. we don't enunciate. >> let's take a look at the very and spend your time working hard first subway video you made. to get to point "b". >> jared believes in an active and "b" could be here... lifestyle, including lots of walk. at the heart of jared's routine are subway sandwiches. or even here. >> hey, jared. >> hey, guys. but for you, "b" is not the end. >> at subway, you can choose capella university will help take you further, from seven sandwiches with 6 because our competency-based curriculum grams of fat or less. is designed for your profession, they all taste great. to move you forward to where you want to be. food for thought. >> so jared, you've got your old your point "c". fat pants, haven't you? capella university. let's have a look at them. >> i do. these are way more famous than i start your journey at capella.edu. am, piers. if i can't make an event i send the pants. >> wow. >> this is what i used to wear. this was a 60 inch waist. these are the relaxed fit, though, very important to have. it's a good reminder for me.

people are fascinated to seat pants. it's a great visual aid. especially when i'm talking to kids. i speak to children all over the country and world now about my story. they know me really well from tv. i try to have a good message for them about the mistakes i made. when they see the old pair of pant they ooh and ah and can't believe it. >> more information on the jared foundation. check out jaredfoundation.org. subway brought sandwiches for everybody in the audience including me in their new bags. [ cheers and applause ] >> so we'll be handing those out. and as you'd expect from rocco, in an attempt to woo all the ladies in the room he's made a special low calorie cupcake. and as if that is not enough he's brought a copy of his new book "now eat this italian" for everybody in the audience. [ cheers and applause ] >> i actually feel like this is like oprah's big give away now. rocco, good to talk to you. good to talk to you jared as well. coming up next who would intentionally gain 70 pounds in

six months? i'll introduce you to a man who did just that and ask him why he did it. that's next. [ cheers and applause ] i was the hin den berg. i was a big guy. i enjoyed eating. it really wasn't until i was confronted with my dad's just passing and he made me promise to lose weight. ask about the air optix® contacts so breathable they're approved for up to 30 nights of continuous wear. serious eye problems may occur. ask your doctor and visit airoptix.com for safety information and a free one-month trial. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and inhale. [ applause ] >> the days of the jane fonda workout on vhs are of course crestor got more high-risk patients' bad cholesterol long gone although i still work out a bit like that.

but people are now pushing themselves to the limit to get to a goal of under 100. in shape with the latest high way to go, crestor! yeah! tech workouts. do they work and are they getting to goal is a big deal, painful? especially if you have high cholesterol cofounder of fly well, barry's plus any of these risk factors. boot camp and shawn t. creator because you could be at increased risk of insanity or as i like to call for plaque buildup in your arteries over time. them, the trilogy of torturers. so, when diet and exercise aren't enough to lower cholesterol, barry, let me start with you. adding crestor can help. i've seen the results of your go, crestor! work. one of my producers who's worked ♪ on this show has been beasted ♪ oh, yeah [ female announcer ] crestor is not right for everyone, from quite a chubby lad into a like people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant, sort of refined, lean machine. or may become pregnant. >> rock star. >> at the barry's boot camp. tell your doctor about other medicines you're taking. call your doctor right away if you have muscle pain or weakness, so it works. feel unusually tired, have loss of appetite, >> that's one of the main upper belly pain, dark urine, or yellowing of skin or eyes. reasons people keep coming back. >> what's different about your barry's boot camp that is these could be signs of rare but serious side effects. different to others? >> good question. it's running and weights. crestor! yes! it's very basic training. [ female announcer ] ask your doctor about crestor. it's put in a group atmosphere if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. where you have the camaraderie and encouragement and support to push and be pushed really hard.

>> can you get properly fit by either just doing weights or just doing running? is the best combination both? >> both. the combination is really the winning combo there. >> let me turn to you. the flywheel is a phenomenon i'm not really aware of. everyone i mention it to says oh, the flywheel. it's clearly a big phenomenon. what is it and how does it work? >> it's indoor cycling. it's been around for awhile. but when flywheel started we brought to it a whole new level. we have added performance technology to the bikes. so finally we can measure exactly how hard you're supposed to be working. and the results have been amazing. the weight loss stories are >> how hard should you be working? there's a guy in england who recently had a stroke on a rowing machine because he was pushing himself so hard, because he had read about, as i have recently, the value of high intensity workouts. there's a guy at 50 who ended up nearly killing himself.

if you're 48 like me, i don't want to die doing it. >> right. >> other people may want me to, but i don't want to. >> it's a concern. but we're well aware of our customers. we know our customers. we have stadium seating, so the instructor can see every rider in the class. so if someone is working too hard, we're going to tell them they are. >> insanity, just about sums up the whole workout world to me. i'm like most people, i hate working out. i just hate the whole damn thing. apart from when i had to shower [ cheers and applause ] welcome back to our afterwards when you feel pretty special," losing it america's fat obsession." good again, everything else is how far would you go to shed the torture. but you guys love it. how do you get people into the weight? joe croft was in his early 40s right discipline, to keep going and tipping the scale at 300 and not just give up after a few pounds. take a look at his documentary weeks? >> i think that's the main "fat sick and nearly dead". >> this is what i saw when i thing. for me, my specialty is being looked in the mirror. looking good. the years rolled by and i kept able to connect with people seeing that same fit-looking through their tv screen. i at one point was 50 pounds bloke looking back at me. who was i kidding? overweight. i know what it's like to go

i didn't look like that anymore. through the weight loss. so one of the things i'm going through this crazy workout is i looked like i've swallowed a that as we're going through it, sheik. >> well, joe found the answer by i'm thinking in my head what is drinking fresh fruit and this person need to be able to vegetable juice. he says it's made all the get through this second -- or difference. a very different-looking joe cross joins me now. this next minute? and they're also able to take a joe, give me the stats first of break? but you're right, people don't all. what were you at your heaviest? want to work out because they're what are you now? afraid. >> piers, my heaviest i was 320. but i use my motivation to get them to push harder, to go right now today i got on the stronger, and insanity is a scales this morning in the hotel in l.a. i'm 240. crazy word, and -- >> amazing. >> we have one of your victims how do you do this? here. i use the word "victim," but >> so look, i was like a josh, you actually did the shawn business guy running around the world doing deals, focused on t. insanity thing and it worked, building companies. right? >> yes, it did. i kind of said now i was focused >> what did you end up with in on wealth not health. terms of weight? i got sick when i was 32. >> started out at 293 and now down to 203. [ applause ] i thought it was great living in a world you could take pills. i took pills for chronic >> he did the t-25 workout. urdicharea. swhaz is unique about this? bad hives and swelling. a really debilitating disease. >> first of all, i like to say i took the pills for eight long years. something happened when i turned that people are afraid to work

40. out with me because they think it was like that wake-up call of it's hard. so i brought a modifier in. four is a lot closer to a five the number one people don't work whereas a three is closer to a out is they say they don't have two. i felt wow, i'm 40. enough time. i said 25 minutes, you have a i'm looking in the mirror here. modifier. i'm motivating you every step of i'm taking medication night and day. high blood pressure, the way. prediabetic, high cholesterol. >> what is a modifier? i'm a walking time bomb. so i decided to super charge >> if i'm doing crazy, high that journey by drinking just jumps, there's a modifier doing a less, low impact. fresh fruit and vegetable juice there's no jumps. for 60 days. >> so it's a lesser shawn t. then i did another 90 days of eating fruit, vegetables, nuts, basically? beans, seeds. after five months of just >> yeah, kind of. but you work your way up. plants, i was off all medication >> all these stories about the and i was close to 100 pounds new fads, you don't have to do lighter after five months. that was six or seven years ago. >> how have you managed to an hour-long workout. sustain it? what is the minimum you need to that's the key thing that so do as a workout and how many many people find so difficult. they can do a diet for a little times a week to get reasonably bit, but then the reality checks fit? >> good question here, because i'm a believer in the workout. in and then they go back. how have you managed to stay so it's working out with weights, 30 to 45 minutes. disciplined? >> sure. well, the first thing i'd say, but to get the cardio and the piers, i didn't look at what i did as a diet.

i looked at what i did as a weights -- circuit breaker. >> how many days a week? i sort of feel that we all have three choices when it comes to >> oh, five. the energy we're going to put >> five days a week. into our body. we can choose plants, we can >> i don't think this is realistic. choose animal products, and we every moment of your waking day can choose this new kid on the block. something that's been around for you want to work out. only 70 years, that's processed but people like me, it is torture, and what i want to hear food. is, i don't want to hear five or if you look at diet of the average typical american and where you come from and i come six. i want to hear three times a from, it's around about 60% of week, preferably for half an all the energy we get is from hour would be my dream. processed. about 30% from animal. >> you have to think of it this and about 10% from plant food. way, too. and if when you carve out the french fries or the chips as you and i like to call them, that's i create programs that people another 3% in just french fries. can keep themselves accountable. so really, the average american is only getting 7%, 7% of their everyone starts out at a different level. so if you work out one day a calories from plants. week for a month, you're going so i look at now what i try to to see some kind of result do i like to bump that number because you're putting your body up. now i still love my steak like through something that it's the next guy. never been through. i still enjoy it. i just don't have it like i used ideally, we would like people to to. so now my diet is around 40% of get out to work out five times a week, because then it becomes a the calories i consum is plant-based, and then about 30% animal and about 30% processed. lifestyle change.

>> but it's expensive. and that has kept me on the >> i create at-home finance straight and narrow. that's kept me medication free for six, seven years. nowadays if you can sort of results. >> we have discounts with bulk start your day by kind of going back to that hunter gatherer sort of world of getting your classes. >> barry, want to throw a plug in while you're at it? plants on board, having juice or >> if i can also say, it has to a smoothie or a fruit salad for be fun. if it's not fun, people aren't breakfast, having salad for going to come back. lunch and then at nighttime sort at fly wheel, we have great music, remixes, and it's dark. it feels like a club. >> i'm telling you, it gets the of go and do what -- i had see chi see niet /* /- suchi last night. steak tonight. juices flowing. >> quite a story. good to talk to you. i want to bring in now drew thank you all very much indeed. manning, a personal fitness coming up next, i'll take a ride trainer who gained weight to see what his clients were going on one of ruth's fly wheels. through. he's the author of "fit to fat to fit". i don't know why i'm doing this, drew you're fascinating. there you were super fit. but i've been persuaded it will hard rock muscles, everything make me fitter. else. very clean. you thought, i'm going to put on 70 pounds. >> yes. >> why did you want to do that? why did you want to become me?

[ laughter ] >> i don't know if it's so much you. but i felt like i needed a different perspective. i was always fit. i never struggled with my weight. >> these are the pictures. this is amazing. >> pretty scary. >> let's put those back up. that's you on the left before. that's what you became in the middle. >> yes, six months. >> and that's what happen after. so quite extraordinary. that's a six-month period of time. >> six months. so a year long. >> you did it because you wanted to try and relate to what your before you settle for another ordinary mattress, clients were going through. kind of heavier clients and how isn't it time you discovered the are they working out and problems they might have. sleep number bed? my issue with my trainers, because only the sleep number bed offers dual air they're like you. they're like meatball machines. technology that lets two people find the perfect when they say go and knock out balance of comfort and support for their bodies. 30 presses. it's fine for them for us not so their sleep number setting. easy. >> that's why i felt i needed ok, right there. that different per speblgtive. and only the sleep number bed is clinically proven become, overweight gave me a to relieve back pain and improve sleep quality. better understanding. at least i would have a better oh that feels really good. understanding versus the trainer it's hugging my body. with the six-pack. and right now, we're offering our lowest typical trainer. prices of the season. >> never been overweight? save $300 to $800 on our newest innovations. >> never overweight. never struggled. it's the perfect time for you to try the >> what were the biggest

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now. you can see "fat sick and nearly dead" on netflix, hulu and itunes. good to talk to you. >> thank you, piers. when we talk about america's obesity epidemic is is it a choice or food conspiracy? we'll talk about who's to blame next. >> i think i just got fatter and fatter. >> what was the point when you went -- how heavy were you? >> 14 stone. 14 stone. >> was there a moment a kind of self-awareness where you went, okay, that's enough? >> i just felt like where was it going to end.

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i'm susan hendricks. new revelations about the bridge scandal rocking new jersey governor chris christie's administration. more than 2,000 pages of documents were released today for the investigation of christie aides who closed down access lanes to the george washington bridge in september, an alleged act of political payback. the documents show that drivers complained immediately. the mayor of fort lee said police told residents he was to blame for that, and the executive director of the port authority angry that he hadn't been told about the lane closures expressed concern they may have violated the law. also tonight a west virginia chemical company has been ordered to stop operations after a leak that contaminated

drinking water for 300,000 people. 75 fema trucks are bringing an emergency supply of water after a chemical leak contaminated the elk river. officials say they don't know when the water will be safe to drink again. now back to our piers morgan live special "losing it, america's fat obsession." [ cheers and applause ] the health costs in the united states are staggering. estimate at $150 billion. they could skyrocket to 300 billion in just a few years. who's to blame for the epidemic? it's a question of self control, the food companies and restaurant chains at fault? here with me to debate that are a director of robotic surgery at the university of pittsburgh medical center and michael moss, "new york times" investigative reporter and author of "salt sugar fat." welcome to you both. so 35.7% of american adults,

16.9% of american children age 2 to 19 are obese according to centers of disease control and prevention. that will reach 44% by 2030. almost half of america, michael moss, will be dangerously overweight. why is this happening? how do we change the thinking? >> i've heard so often people trying to blame people for this problem. and i will grant you one moment. in the 1980s there was a moment overnight when it became acceptable to eat anything, anywhere, anytime. that's when you started to see people walking down the street eating and drinking, bringing food into business meetings. you probably wouldn't be surprised if i brought something right now and started eating it. but you can't underestimate the cunning and the skill on the behalf of -- on the part of the processed food industry. not just to make products that we like, but to get us to want more and more of those products. >> making them addictive by making them have stuff in them that makes you want more of it.

>> there is no hated word more than the a word. they talk about cravability, snackability. moorishness? these are not english majors. these are scientists bench chemists marketing people, talking about what drives them day in and day out, which is to make their products as utterly attractive and irresistible as possible. >> and the problem, doctor, they come to you because they end up piling on the pounds and feel terrible about themselves. enter the doctor who can repair the damage. in an ideal world you'd be out of work. >> correct. >> why are you seeing so much business, do you think, from the stories that you hear? >> from the stories that i hear, it's very clear that people are addicted to sugar. we're under a sugar spell. our whole country is. so with the exception of the few percent of people that are in this room or that you've had up on the stage today, everybody struggles with their weight. they struggle with it and with the daily battle or can i eat this? how much time in the gym that you mentioned? can i get past it? what's it going to do to me?

and the reality of it is, if we don't stop the consumption of sugar the at the rate we're going we're all going to be fat and we're all going to be sick. and the procession to my operating room will not stop. >> is it just sugar, michael moss? is it salt? you read a headline one day, too much salt can kill you. the next day, not enough salt will kill you. and so you read about all these things. nobody seems to have a clear idea what they should be doing in terms of their diet that will definitely make an impact to their health. >> look at your favorite, cheese. we're now eating on average 33 pounds of cheese every year. and we got to that point because the processed food industry teamed up, believe it or not, with the government to turn cheese into an additive. something that's added to food to increase the allure. in some ways cheese is even more powerful than sugar because the brain gets deceived. if you can't see the fat that's on your food, the natural breaks that you have to sort of curb over eating get taken off. that's nothing inherently wrong with salt, sugar, fat. it's the amounts and the allure of these products.

and it's the mindlessness that we've sort of taken to eating that can play right into the hands of the industry. >> joe, i've talked to interview chris christie several times about it. he's very honest about his weight problems. he's a brilliant politician but he has this big frame and has struggled very had over the years to do something about it. he eventually had this gastric lap band thing which appears to be having some effect for him. you have seen those and treated people with those. when it gets to that stage people are pretty desperate aren't they to do something? >> our whole country is desperate. it's important to understand this. there is a body mass index. a line in the sand that once you cross it you can't go back and stay back on your own. typically that's been thought to be a body mass index of 40. those are the people i operate on. those are the people that get lap bands. listen to this. just about two years ago the fda approved lap band surgery for people with a bmi of 30 or greater. and one medical problem related to their weight. think about that. so your comment earlier about

half of our population in 15 years being obese and needing surgery, that's what i'm looking at. operating on half of all americans. >> i was applauding michael bloomberg for saying, let's deal with these super-sized sodas. they're terrible for everybody. they're making people fast they're rotting their teeth. they're not good for you. clearly people can't be trusted to stop it themselves. let's do something about it. and he lost. let me ask the audience here. it will be quite interesting. i want to ask you two questions. the first one is, do you think super-sized sodas are good for you? >> no. >> does anybody think they're good for you? let me ask you a separate question. are you happy for mayor bloomberg or president obama or whoever it may be to start telling you how you should leave lead your lives in terms of drinking and eating? show of hands if you're happy about that. right. so this is fascinating. okay? so all of you agree it's terrible your super-sized sodas but none of you want to be told that, right? so this is the classic american

psychology, which i battle with as a briton a daily basis. >> sure. >> but we are the same in britain. exactly the same. the crux of it, isn't it, joe, because everything about you tells you this is wrong. >> certainly. >> but you don't want to be told you can't have it. how do we get through to this? >> the reality of it is it's making you sick whether you have a weight problem or not. stop and think about that for a minute. you've had so many lean, fit people on your show today. they look tremendous.