his father be in trouble for asking for money? >> absolutely. you cannot solicit a student athlete whether money was accepted or not. >> the athletic director raised his eyebrows. they said no comment when asked if he was going to play. >> they don't want to make a stand one way or the other. >> joe carter, see you plenty on the weekends. >> i'll be back after the top of the hour. now, i'll hand it over the the good doctor. >> good morning, i'm sanjay gupta. the first story struck a cord with me. a brand-new study found a dozen of 3,000 fast food kids meals met nutritional guidelines. for a lot of people, it's not a big sur prize.

a professor who spent two months on a junk food diet lost weight, 27 pounds and 8% of body fat. we are going to look at his story and healthy alternatives. a woman with a mission, she saw refugee boys playing soccer with a ragged ball and handful of rocks. she said i'm going to make a difference. open enrollment for medicare. it's starting monday. what do you need to know? it's in the ask the doctor segment. let's get started. you know, as a father, there were two story that is caught my eye this week. first up, san francisco's decision to ban toys with meals with more than 600 calories and 35% of total calories coming from fat. a similar research, yale

university finds out of 3,000 meals served at fast food restaurants, a dozen meet nutritional guidelines. the reason i think it's a concern is 84% of parents say they take their child to eat fast food at least once a week. a couple of the worst offenders, the kfc popcorn chicken. the biscuit and string cheese. a drink, soda of some sort, 840 calories. another offender, dairy queen cheese burger, fries, soda and a chocolate bar. 973 calories. keep in mind the number of calories for 4 to 8-year-olds starts around 1200 for girls and 1,400 for boys depending on their growth and activity level. they could be reaching half

their calories in one sitting. many fast food restaurants have healthy options. the increasing number of healthy options is the number one food trend in quick service restaurants. they say that's true, but the options are not prominantly advertised. people don't go there to get healthy food. among the healthiest highlighted. the subway veggie delight kids meal, the sandwich and apple slices, use. 285 calories. the burger king kids meal, macaroni and cheese, fat-free milk 285 calories. it would qualify for a little toy. joining us to talk more about this is mark hob, he's at kansas

state university. you did a fabulous experiment where you ate junk food for ten weeks. thanks for joining us and being on the show. >> truly my pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. >> you lost weight and lowers your cholesterol. how much weight did you lose? what were your cholesterol levels. >> lost 27 pounds. the ldl dropped 20% in the hdl increased. >> hdl being the good cholesterol. >> correct. >> what prompted you to do this? >> it was an experiment. there's an obesity issue in the u.s. you are touching on it with the issues you are raising with the kids. for the class, i teach energy ball lansz. obesity is the prominant topic. i wanted to push the envelope, endeuce weight loss.

i had some weight to lose, in theory. i used myself as a tool and proceeded to use junk food as a means to do that and to see if there's a separation between behavior, how we get to weight loss verses are the outcomes more important than the path we take to get there. >> if you had to summarize the message, you are not encouraging people to go out and eat junk food. what is the message? >> i think there may be a disconnect between behavior and outcomes. i don't condone what i'm doing as being healthy. the foods are healthy. but, if i told people i was eating a vegetarian diet, they would think it's good. a lot of the foods classify as vegetarian. when you look at the sugar content, the transfat and saturated fat in the food, it's unhealthy.

there's situations we need to discuss as far as what's more important, the behavior, the foods we eat or the outcomes we achieve. >> i think you are alluding to this, but a nutritious way to lose weight. you talked about the weight and cholesterol levels. they are two good measures to this. counting calories, would you consider it a nutritious way to lose weight? it is a couple measures or how would you classify that? >> it's a big issue. you know, counting calories, we have a society where we want to eat until we are full. by counting calories, the food you eat, you have to count calories. the ones i chose to lose weight. there may be hidden calories in the things. you mentioned the foods at the restaurants. it may feel like you are eating 500 calories when you are eating

1,000. >> you heard the story with the toys and the happy meals. what did you make of that? the fast food industry as a whole is targeted as one of the causes of the obesity problem. what did you make of this thing? >> you hit it on the nail. to be honest, to disclose, i received a lot of my research from a member of the institute of food technology. i appreciate where the food is. they are caught between a rock and a hard place, if you will. they are trying to make efforts to improve the healthiness of the foods. they are also trying to make money. they are trying to do both. from a parents perspective, they may not be making the changes fast enough. >> it was a fascinating experiment you do. i appreciate you sharing it with us. i think it's going to be

instrucktive as well. we'll see what happens with the fast food industry. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> thank you, sir. fascinating stuff. a big topic we are going to continue. next, refugee kids from afghanistan, congo, they are finding a sense of community in a soccer league. i want to take you there. stay with us. [ female announcer ] imagine the possibilities

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>> any refugee can be. >> they are all refugees. 86 children and teens from more than 28 countries. >> any country with a war in the past 20, 30 years, we have kids from those countries. >> what started as a casual soccer team is a school full of students most of whom have never been in a classroom before. >> i come to russia. from russia, i come to america. >> sharply dressed in a uniform and tie is an 8th grader. it's something that would be almost impossible in sudan. >> after you moved to the united states and they said what are you going to do with your life, what would you have said? >> i don't know what to say during that time. now, i look at myself i want to be someone very good and make my people proud. >> life in america has not always been good to him.

>> when you are an outsider living in the united states, what is that like? what happens to you? >> it's hard. everyone is picking on you. they treat you different like you don't belong here. >> what did you do? >> i used to fight a lot. now, i try to resolve them. >> while there are refugees living all around the united states, this family is the only group combining soccer with the hope for a better future. >> are there other organization that is you know of like this around the country? >> no. we get e-mails all week bring them to us. >> how many more years before you finish? >> i have four more years because i'm in eighth grade now. >> then? >> another four years. >> of? >> college. >> now, the academy only teaches kids through the eighth grade. there's good news. they are about to begin construction on the high school. good luck to y'all. next, my day with dr. q, the

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we are back with "sgmd." awhile ago, we brought you the story of dr. q, a fellow neurosurgeon with an unforgettable story. at age 19, he jumped this chain-linked fence to work as a farm laborer. he eventually became a world class brain surgeon. we heard from a lot of you wanting to hear more. >> the details are fascinating. you hopped the fence. you don't have a plan. >> that's right. >> what do you do? do you go to a farm? do you ask around? >> that's right. when people come to the united

states, the very first place you can get a potential job are the jobs which you have to get your hands, you know, dirty and your hands bleed of pulling weeds in the fields. it was a place where a lot of immigrants have traditionally come to the united states. for me, it was the san joaquin valley. >> how much did you get paid? >> my first check was $162. i always tell people that i realize, at that pace, working from sunset to sundown in the summer, seven days a week, it was going to be a lot of hard work. i remember, i tell you, dr. gupta, my hands, the very same hands that now do brain surgery, around that time, they had scars everywhere from pulling weeds. they were bloody. >> you went to harvard medical school and it makes me wonder, did you ever question yourself?

i mean you say other people questioned you. did you ever think, you know what, i don't belong here? >> yes. many times. i questioned myself in medical school and before i was in medical school at uc berkeley. i question myself today that i am fit to do what i do every day. i think that's also what has kept me on the top of my game. i question every single move i do every day. you know, when i was in medical school, i remember thinking, wow, look at my classmates. some claim at the best prep schools in the country. they came from the most distinguished families in the united states and there was me, who barely had an education. i was eager to learn. i had, i always knew that i had something that all of them didn't have. that was that fire in my belly that keeps me going. >> what is the fire now?

you have accomplished so much. what keeps the fire going? >> i deal with patients with brain cancer every single day. i have to give bad news. i have to give bad news not only to my patients but to their families. i see it in their eyes. i see the desperation. sometimes all it takes is to touch a patient. it takes only to acknowledge that you have been given a gift by operating on them that can make a difference in the way they view themselves or the way the families view the disease. i acknowledge that as a contribution i make for my patients every day. my fire is simple. i want us to find better ways to treat brain cancer. >> i remember the first time i scrubbed, you come in, they hand you the towel and you dry your hands. they gown you and you are putting your hands in the gloves. they are holding the gloves for you. for me, it was an amazing moment.

i didn't come from where you came. to be that person, picking the weeds in the fields and now having someone hold the gloves for you, it must have been an amazing moment for you. >> it was so amazing. i was nervous and excited at the same time. icon tam nated myself and they sent me back out. climb >> climb over again. but it was an exhilarating moment. you are tense, your adrenaline is going through. and i was coming in exactly that moment when the attending said, you want to scrub in and help me? sure i'm at harvard and excited. no words can describe that feeling. your hands come in, and it's awkward, they're not going in, you're shaking with adrenaline,. i was so excited that when i turn around my gown, my gown actually hit the wall and got contaminated so they send me back out and scrub begagain.

>> next time i'm going to ask dr. q., does he have regrets in chasing his dreams?

welcome back. you know, i've been talking with a doctor who came to the united states at age 19 as an illegal farm worker. eventually made his way to harvard medical school and now johns hopkins where he's a top-notch brain surgeon. >> you've known people, friends and family members who have

succumb to this disease. your grandfather? >> yes. unfortunately my grandfather succumb to cancer to his brain. a classmate of mine in medical school succumb. a friend of mine -- i decided i want to be part of it. i want to make a small contribution. whether it's me or my students, someone's going to have to do it. and someone will find a cure. >> the amnesty that president reagan allowed immigrants to come to this country helped you come to this country. you've also seen now 22 years later how much has changed and what's happening along the borders right now. is this something you think about? you weigh in on? >> i think about it all the time, dr. gupta. i don't weigh in a lot obviously because i'm not an authority on this issue of immigration. i can only talk about my own experience as an immigrant, what it was like when people say, well, immigrants, they come in here, they're lazy, they don't

work hard or they -- you know, they want to take advantage of the government. i don't think that's true. if you look through generations of many, many immigrants from many different countries, i think most immigrants want to come to the united states because they want to fulfill the american dream. >> technically, q. broke the law. i think that's what this is all about. i've heard everything proposed from let's offer amnesty to all undocumented workers to let's create mechanisms to find them all and make sure they return to their countries. do you have an opinion on that? >> i can only speak for myself. if i'd been in that situation 20 years ago just like many are today and it happened to a certain degree when i was allowed -- when i came to the united states, they send me back to my country. what would i do? i had to come back again. i had to climb the fence again. i think that as long as there's poverty, people are going to keep trying their best.

>> all right, dr. q., thanks so much. something all doctors are interested in, medicare open enrollment starting monday. there's changes for people on medicare. everything you need to know, we'll answer next on "ask the doctor." [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus rushes relief for all-over achy colds. the official cold medicine of the u.s. ski team. alka-seltzer plus.

well, we are back with "sgmd." every week at this time we're going to be answering your questions. think of this as your appointment, no waiting, no insurance necessary. we've got that lot of questions about medicare. not surprising given the time of year. let's take one question here from mary in walnut creek. general question, what should my

husband and i know about open enrollment for medicare? well, first of all, medicare open enrollment starts monday, november 15th. a couple of things to keep in mind, starting in 2011, average monthly premium charges for standard coverage medicare will go up about 3% for those drug plans. for some, those drug prices are going to go up. but for people who enter what's known as the donut hole, the gap in coverage. for them, they may actually start to have a benefit here to some extent, 50% off discounted brand name drugs, 7% discount on generic drugs. again, that's for people who enter what's known as the coverage gap. there's also something else, which is the medicare advantage dis-enrollment period. from january 1st to about february 14th. if you opted for a medicare advantage plan, but change your mind, during this time you can switch from an advantage plan to an original medicare plan. there are a lot of details here, mary, on medicare