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voice. and tonight your official data exposed again. the nation's largest arts and crafts retailer michael's warning it may be the latest victim in the string of attacks hitting target and neiman-marcus. is your credit card safe anyone? chris, welcome back to the show. so who needs to be worried and what is the latest on this? >> yeah, obviously anyone who has shopped at target or michaels are knee man marcus needs to be look at the credit card statements line by line every charge. there's going to be other retailers it's going to be happening to. even if you haven't shopped at the stores, i worry and scrutinize my credit card statement. >> i think you made a good point. there's a total of six retailers. i think the fbi has been looking at 20 different distributes. obviously it's tipping our toe in this story. it's going get worse.

look, a comparison at the number people being impacted by this target. was 100 million. possibly neiman-marcus 1.1 million. how many folks could be hit in the michael's hack? >> well, if you look at the number of michael's store and the revenue. there are probably around, you know, a tenth the size of target. so, you know, we could be looking to the several million customers effected here. gerri: it seems, to me, anyway, that the closer we get the more it feels like anybody is going to be hit in some way. and >> she's blue michaels was attacked before in 2011. some 94,000 cards stolen. why didn't they learn their lesson. >> that's a good question. when they were hit in 2011 it wasn't as sophisticated. they were hitting pos terminals. they were physically modified.

the new string of attacks like lyre automatic and able to hit lots all at once. it's something that the department of homeland security issued three warnings in the last month about type of attack and how to secure themselves. it's a little surprising that more retailers haven't fixed this. gerri: well, you know, chris everybody is asking all the other retailers. are we going see a chain on the side, the order of walmart involved? could it -- who is next? k mart, sears? who could be next. >> it's anyone guessed. i wouldn't be surprised if it was a huge retailer. target is a guy began tick retailer. and neiman-marcus and michael's are big too. it wouldn't surprise me if it's more company that have size. gerri: i want to read michael's ceo statement. it's a nondenial denial. we have not confirmed a comprise

to the system. we believe it's in the best interest of their customer to alert them to take steps to prevent themselves by reviewing their payment count statements for unauthorized charges. it's job number one. look at the statement make sure that what is coming through the pipeline is some purchase you actually made. >> absolutely. you need to look at the statements. if you have a debit card you need to look at the bank statements too. and don't ignore the $1, $2, $9 purchases. they could be lead indicater you're going get hit with other big fraudulent purchases too if those are purchases you didn't make. >> you are giving good advise here. i don't think americans are taking. while folks say they're worried they're not changing what they're doing. only 41% of folks checked their account. only 37% have switched to cash. what do you make of that? >> yeah.

i don't think you need switch to cash, but definitely you need to check your account. i mean, i've been doing it regularly for years, and i know a lot of people have doing it more as the activity rather thans up. i wouldn't be surprised if practically every single credit card holder gets affected by this in the coming year. gerri: wow. we'll have you back. thank you for coming on tonight. it's great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> from security to your health. if you have to get obamacare don't pay for the gold, go for the bronze. it's cheaper. dr. scott is a former senior policy adviser for the center of medicare and medicaid services. welcome. i think everybody has heard about all the levels that you can buy. the gold, the platinum, the bronze, the silver. you say don't pay up. why? >> well, depends on who you are. for most people the bronze plan will be the best choice from an

economic standpoint. we looked at 50 different health plans. when you look across the insurers are offering. look the particulars. the difference between the bronze and the platinum plan is the copay structure. basically what you're doing by buying the platinum plan you are paying 100 premium. but you get the same network of providers and most cases you get the exact same drug form perhaps the plans themselves, the benefits aren't different. you can't buy up the benefit. gerri: it's how you pay. >> right. >> essentially. i want to show examples of this. you had great data on this. for example, if you have a primary care physician, bronze versus gold plan and fairfield, connecticut. you get the same number of doctors. 942 for bronze and gold. there's no difference, really in what you have to choose from. so let me show you another example. on colleges, for example. bronze versus gold again. you look at the numbers here. they are the same. oncologists available on anthem

blue cross 53 for the bronze plan. 52 for the gold plan. why is this, doctor scott, why is there no difference? >> well, it's the same plan. the only exception people lower income folks who qualify for certain cost sharing subsidize. it's another subsidize structure that offset the out-of-pocket costs. if you're below 200%. about $45,000 a year for a family of four, if you buy the silver plan, you'll qualify for the cost sharing subsidize. they could substantially reduce your out of pocket cost. if you're at the income level it might make sense to buy the silver. probably the bronze will be the best bet from an economic standpoint. gerri: thank you for looking in to that. for a lot of people it's confusing and they don't know what to do. let me tell you what people are confused about. they don't know the deadline for signing up for obamacare. 55% of americans don't know the deadline is march 21st. what do you make of that?

>> it's a quasi deadline; right? come march 31st it's the end of the open-enrollment period. you won't be able to buy coverage through the obamacare exchange. past that you face a tax penalty if you continue to have no insurance. some people depending on what state you're in will be able go outside the obamacare exchange and find policies in the individual market. those policies just won't be compliant with the regulations. so many cases they're going cost more money and people have to pay. it we note tax penalty is low this year. only 95. it's a deadline but not a hard deadline in term of there might be options available to you. depending on the state. gerri: people like will be watching to see how many people they signed up. it's a political question as much as anything else. another political question, i think is important to our viewers. medicare advantage is being given the heave hoe by obamacare. what is going on? they're kicking docks off the plan. what is happening?

>> right. this is the consequence of the about 150 billion in medicare cuts that are used to help pay for obamacare over ten years. remember, they cut medicare to help pay for obamacare. what the medicare advantage plan are doing right now they have cheapen the plains. the way they're doing it is narrowing down the network. kicking providers out the plan. the prrblem it's indiscriminate. they're not just kicking out the providers who might have been ine official. they're kicking out providers where you can. you are losing good with bad doctors. >> it seems to me your choices are between medicare advantage plan or obamacare which has a narrow network and not a lot of choices. it seems they're putting people between a rock and hard place. >> it's going to be narrow network all the way around. they made the whole idea of a narrow network hmo style fashionable. they got used to -- they had at lot of choice of doctors. it's going a thing of the past.

probably the de facto standards will be the narrow plans. gerri: dr. scott, i wish you had better news. it's good to have you on the show. thank you for coming on. >> thanks a lot. we have more, more, more to come this hour. including a warning about using linked in to find a job. how it actually hurt your chances of getting one. and next, more bad headlines from the cruise industry. hundreds of folks end up sick on a royal caribbean voyage. should you avoid cruises for your next vacation ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] wt kind of energy is so abundant, it can help provide the power for all th natural gas.

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a royal blow to the cruise industry after more than 600 passengers and crew members get sick on a royal crib january cruise. the illnesses is so wide spread it's returning home two days early. joining me now travel expert mark murphy. everybody on the floor here is grossed out by this story. they've got 577 people who are sick and coming home early in the middle of the super bowl to new jersey. this just stinks if this is your vacation. what do you say? >> for those people, i feel bad. i mean, let's face it.

no one wants to have a vacation like this. if when you put tte numbers out there, they're minuscule. for instance, 1300 people between the cbc and the cruise line's reporting. that's the number 1300 people last year were affected by an outbreak. and either 7 or 9 depending on cbc or the cruise line international association, well, seven outbreaks happened at sea. 10 million people embarked from one of the u.s. ports on a cruise. so when you put it in to perspective, it's not like it's going to happen to you when you take a cruise. when you take another -- a cruise only thing. it affects 20 million people in the u.s. gerri: listen to the numbers. noro virus. two times all right this year. twice already this year. 9 times in 2013. 16 in 2012, 14 in 2011. i have to tell you, those are -- that's not what i call great

odds. i know, it's not a huge proportion of the total number of people who are traveling. but people who travel and are on a ship where it happens. they get a bad taste that their mouth. let me tell you what is being said about royal caribbean may do for customers. it's not been confirmmd by the company as far as i know. but they're talking about a $400 credit per state room and then on top of that, 50 percent of whatever you paid for the vacation to be given to you for future cruises. do you think that's going make people happy? >> i think it depends on the person. if i was sick, maybe not. if i was one of the people that lost a couple days on the cruise and $400 credit and 50% off a future cruise that might suffice. they want to keep passengers happy. their job right now is handle the pr side and make sure those people get a fair shot. so to me, maybe. maybe they go a little bit more. i think they're already acting proactively. that's the key.

other cruise lines haven't been active on the pr front. i think royal caribbean has been. gerri: i think it's less about pr and more about health. to tell you the truth. up.on't care if the pr machinely i don't care. ultimately if i'm cruising, i just want to have a safe cruise. where i feel comfortable and i'm not going get sick. i think that's a natural reaction. >> sure. absolutely. you have to think when you go on board the ship people are told report if they have any illnesses. a lot of people fudge it. it's typically a passenger coming on board who is sick who doesn't want -- gerri: we don't know. you don't know the answer to that. you don't know the answer to that. we don't know where -- it could be the staff, it could have been the kitchen. >> true. gerri: it could be somebody walking on board. >> any and all the above. the thing you have to do as a passenger. take out travel insurance, make sure you handle the hygiene side of it.

understand that the odds of you getting sick are less there than they are in some cases staying home. so, you know, put it in to perspective. i don't think it's that big of a deal. when it does happen like this, it gets right out there in the news media. we are here talking about it. that's why it's important we're -- gerri: i want to share something that i think is really interesting inspect is at a relationship caribbean passenger on board. okay. on board the ship. speaking on ready. quote, i think i would go and wipe down every deck chair. haven't seen one bad attitude or rude anything from any crew member. that speaks well to the folks who are running tte ship. >> right. gerri: tonight and taking people back to new jersey. there's also this: morale is not very good. lots of people getting screwed with the travel plans as we're arriving two days early in to new jersey right before super bowl weekend. there are no hotels available anywhere. that's bad luck. the fact they're going back to the bayon and here comes the super bowl is crazy.

>> also understand the people getting on the ships, most of them are driving to market. they're flying they're typically flying down to florida. it's the biggest departure point. these cruises out of the northeast and up and the down the coast those are typically people driving to the ship. it doesn't impact as many people as you might think in term of the hotel with the super bowl. gerri: thank you for coming on, mark. i know, it's your topic. you know it inside and out. we really appreciate your sharing expertise. thank you very much. >> thank you, gerri. later in the show, why are more working-age americans on food stamps now. good question. next, we answer the question how do you do that? we have advice on how to use linked in to get a job and not have it work against you. stay with us.

linked in may be doing more harm

than good.

gerri: welcome back. well, "the social networking" site linked in is known for connecting hundred of millions of job seekers to employers around the world. but one woman's story heating up the web shows how a glitch the site can rev havoc on your job search. senior editor and large for fortune magazine. thank you for coming in. i want to quote this story. because it really gives you a real-live example of kind of what is going on here. here is what donna says. i recently transitioned from a staff position to a freelance role. one of the many things i did to boost my chances of success was to edit the field just above my name to remove any mention of a specific employer.

linked in sent out an automated e-mail message to the 19,000 plus americas -- member of my network to congratulate her on the new job. even my mother wrongly congratulated me. so linked in can -- it can create a problem for folks; right? >> it can. i mean, i don't think this is nearly as big a problem as she does. by the way, she let 1,000 people know -- accidentally in this case she moved to a freelance position. well, freelancers are looking for work. now she has 1,000 people knowing she's looking for work on project. our specific problem she had in the settings a broadcast mechanism on any time she made a change to her linked in profile. it would -- or certain kind of change. it would send out a message to her contacts. she needed to turn that off before making changes and then turn it back on again. gerri: i think the solution, like you said, is simple. a lot of people using websites now, you know, it's something

new for them. they're not familiar or don't understand how they work. and so you're experimenting at the same time job hunting. that. can be a disaster. >> it can be. linked in has become the de facto résume for most of the people. a paper resume is relatively youless. i think for everybody concerned is especially employers the investigate is highly accurate. you are not going to lie on the linkedin profile unless you're a total fool. so obviously people for that very reason need to be very careful about what they do put on their linkedin profile. gerri: that's a great idea. it's things you can do yourself. you make your own mistakes. one of the folks say is get a good photograph. don't get a bad photograph. is it important what you look like on linked in? >> of course it is. i would turn around the question is it important what you look like when you go in for a job interview?

yes, it is. linked in is the step before your job interview. you need a picture that looks like you and as presentable as possible. if, by the way, being presentable is important to you. i have no idea what kind of job certain people are trying to get. [laughter] gerri: they also say that a lot of people use their current job title. sort of the headline and that's a mistake. because then you're sort of -- for any job with that kind of tight. and that may not be what you're looking for. now do you perfect the details? >> well, i think you can -- the easiest way to perfect something like that is omit it. you don't want the information that is factual, you know, to be out there, then don't put it in. put something that is relevant. so people will say things like, finance industry executive. or journalist instead of in my case high pollutant title like senior editor at large which may not mean anything to people. gerri: interesting. you were talking before how important it is for the information on your résume to be

absolutely correct. but some folks say that linked in is not a résume, really. you shouldn't think of it that way. how do you think of it, adam? >> for me, personally. well, it depends. we think of résumes as something for someone seeking a job; right. but a linkedin profile is for everybody in their career for every day. first of all, you never know when you might be looking for a job. it's a good idea to have a résume put together. the linkedin profile serves that purpose. even more than that, it's a calling card. it's a brochure for yourself and for your career. you know, there are certain things you want but there are certain things you don't know you want. the linkedin profile is an opportunity to have a video of yourself, a picture of yourself, as you said. your work experience, a description what you do. you are broadcasting it to the world. you have no idea how to might be viewed. you can control the information

being accurate and serve your purposes. gerri: great stuff. thank you for coming on the show. >> my pleasure. thank you. coming up. what is going on on wall street. we're looking out for you and your money. when our financial panel weighs inspect next, a major change hitting the food stamp program. why more and more working age mesh -- americans are getting help. instead of just children and the elderly. ♪ welcome back. how is everything?

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gerri: moments ago, congress agreeing on a new farm bill. now the deal will shave just a fraction about 19% -- 1% from the food stamp program. republicans in the house were looking for a steer cut. the agreement comes the same day we learn finish the first time ever able-bodied working people in the country now making up the majority of food stamp

recipients. so what is going on? let's bring in heritage foundation welfare specialist rh the cheffield. thank you for coming on the field. first, your reaction to what congress did. they are shaving the spending. do they need to do more? >> well, based on a report, this isn't too surprising. unfortunately, the 1% cut doesn't reflect the type of reform that would be necessary to put this up, this program that has grown dramatically in recent years on a prudent course. for example food stamps should be reform to have a strong work environment. and also important to get rid of loopholes that allowed the program -- gerri: all right. let's get to that. my first concern is, really, the shift of the beths going to middle-class americans. why is that happening? >> well, a few reasons. no will doubt it's due to the poor economy. there's also policies pushed by

the obama administration made it easier for able-bodied adults to get on food stamps and stay there. for example, there's a loophole that well, president obama basically allow the states to waive the modest work requirement for able bodied adults without dependents. in most states it's able to get food stamps without anything required of them in return. gerri: right, rachel. $78 billion spent on welfare and food stamps, sorry. last year per year, that's going to be shaved just a little bit. i think a lot of people are saying, you know, hey, that recession. it's over. and it seems like what is happening with s.n.a.p., that's what they call food stamps now. it's becoming sort of a go-to benefit for middle class families. some people saying that some of these jobs people have out there it's not enough money to cover their cost so people get the food stamp benefits and stay on them. how do you respond to that?

>> well,, you know, it's interesting. if you look at data even in good economic times work rates are low among able-bodied food stamp recipient. i think there are policies that can be changed to encourage work for able-bodied adults. we also, terrorist also a policy put in to place in 2000 and that has been the heavily promoted by the obama administration, and that allows applicants to bypass asset ts. so basically you can have unlimited savings and be eligible for food stamps if your income is low enough. gerri: go ahead. finish your thought, rachel. >> no. i was going say americans are generous people. they want to help the neighbor. but they understand it's important for their neighbors to do what they can to help themselves. gerri: i couldn't agree with that more. i know, our viewers agree with the sentiment. thank you for come on the show. it was great to see you. >> thank you. and now we want to know what you think. here is our question tonight.

are food stamps too easy to get? log on to gerriwillis.com. vote on the right side of the screen. food tamps are just one example of the many forms of government handouts many in america are getting at the cost taxpayers, obviously. in the top five the states giving out the most. number five, alaska. residents pay the most state taxes in the country. despite having a high income level. state benefits cover families 8l poverty level. it has the most -- more than 83,000. number four massachusetts. there's a high cost of mcin this state. and per pupil education spending is almost $14 00. number three connecticut. pension recipients get the most money in the state man anywhere else in the nation. more than $35,000 on average. teachers salaries are some of the highest in the nation. number two, new york. this state has high medicaid spending and also spends the

most on education. more than $19,000 per student. the most is rhode island. despite the small size they pay a lot in pension benefits on average almost $32 ,000. and the jobless get unemployment checks worth nearly 40% of the weekly wage. states with the least government benefits are tennessee and mississippi. when we come back a new warning about soda. does it cause cancer? next. the market is getting crushed after a record breaking year. is it a start of correction so many of us have been hearing about? ♪ can't touch this ♪

are the emerging markets ever emerges as a threat to the stock

market. stocks ending in the red over a sell-off over emerging markets worry that the chief money from the central reserve may stop. here to weigh in the ceo of the financial. welcome, all. david, i'm starting with you. i want to start on talking about apple. they were at with earnings after the bell looked decent. they sold a record 51 million iphone. it was not enough, apparently, for investors. the stock trading lower after the close. >> the forward guidance, i think disturbing people. when you have a story that you think is going to get better and better and better, and then all of sudden you have to reflect maybe tomorrow won't be as good of today. there's mean reversion in price. you are off almost 8% inspect you went through the 50 day. you have 482 which is the 1200-day moving average.

it's the lain line of report. >> is it an opportunity to buy? >> it's getting close to. it i would like to see it around 480 to 500. the price on the multiple are low. they have inked the deal with ntt in japan. 60 to 70 million subscribers there. and china mobile that's even newer deal with 600 to 700 million subscribers there. i think they have a bright future. they have taken a temporary hit. it's getting close to being a good value. >> david, is it temporary? >> this has been a frustrating stock for a couple of years. it was more fun a couple of years ago. the stock has always cheap. own. it it was an inline quarter. like david said, the miss here was the iphone. it was a disappointment, i think it actually came in 8% under expectations. my concern -- gerri: the company sold 51 million phones and nobody likes

it. >> it's a huge company. it takes a lot to move the needle. my concern is, you know, if they have an inline quota like this. what happens when they really miss? gerri: that's a good point. it's an expectations business though. >> it certainly is. gerri: no doubt about it. i want to move to the broader stock market and expectations there. david, to you, what a mess. we're developing here. is it start of something really, really bad? are we going to correction mode here? >> well, when you begin to see jitters in the currency market. usually after you see it in the credit markets. that's already happening. when you have an unprecedented amount of dollar denominated lending. you see foreign currencies depreciate. it makes it that much harder to pay back the dollar denominated loans. what is today a credit crisis. the emerging market crisis is likely to -- put a damper on the growth

expectations of 2014. >> sean, do you agree? >> the emerging market have been extreme. they moved like 9 percent in one month. i think that's just about to come to an end. so i think there's going to be a lot of stable station happen soon in the emerging market. i think the emerge market stocks are a value right now with turkey and china and russia. all low pe multiple. things are on sale and it's a good value. >> i'm not buy together value concept. they have been cheap for a long time. and too easy to point to the liquidity and the fed. we were talking about the tampered in 2012 and the stocks have gone nowhere for a couple of years. i think they are waking up to the fact that a lot of these developing countries simply are not shareholder friendly. i don't care whether it is accounting issues in china, or some of the question -- that go on in turkey. i think your assets are better in this country. >> david, that's an interesting point.

david nelson made. do you agree, and, you know, i have to tell you, i look at the stuff going on. it's no wonder that people might be flying out of these countries. >> the relative value argument has been there for good six months and twelve months. they are getting cheaper. at what point do they become a compelling value. i'm not sure. i know, the emerging markets tend to benefit from the capital flow of the developed world and to the degree that changes if we're not buying what we used to buy if the consumer here goes on strike. you do see a major ripple effect in to the emerging markets. so i think the emerging market will still and always be a story that is part and parcel to a growth theme in the united states. we do well, they do well. we suffer, they suffer. >> well, i think -- >> bigger than that, sean. i think what is going on here is that our fed has changed the policy and it's hurting these guys; right? isn't it just that simple, sean?

>> it also hurts. our stocks have gotten overvalued. they needed a good slam. this was a good excuse. the world bank, the imf, all of them have upped the 2014 growth forecast. i think 2014 is going to be fairly robust economically or at least a lot better than 2013. gerri: the stock market actually, david nelson, follow? and the market was out in front of the economy for so long. >> well, you are talking here in the u.s.? >> yeah. i think it's too easy as far as overseas point to the fed. and yes, the emerging markets are important to us. they are very -- i think there's more going on here we need to be cognizant of. we should take a breath. use it as an opportunity to upgrade the port portfolio. get rid of the trash. gerri: take out the trash! time to take out the trash! david, to you. is it selling time? are you selling? >> you know, i think your first loss is the best loss in this

case. what i'm looking at $444 billion in margin debt. we hit a new high in december. the numbers out this morning, and we've never hit new highs like this. and not had a major down year to follow. so in 2007, that was the last -- 2000 was the peek before that. 87 these are years you put in unbelievable amount of borrowing. you could not afford out of your own account and borrow to do it. you set the new numbers. i think you are set up yourself for a disappointment. miner 10% correction on the stock market can be a 20 tow 30 percent route. >> that's a very big -- [inaudible] >> 20 to 30% correction? >> i think one of two steps. 10% decline here and now with the recovery to the summer maybe putting in a major talk is to the summer. >> i'll take the other side that have. gerri: we're going hold your feet to the fire on this. >> if we precipitate the debt

margin. you don't want to get in the way of the liquidation. >> very quickly, sean. where do you fall? should we -- which argument do you like? >> i would not touch u.s. stocks. they are too expensive. i go for the onsale emerging markets. to me that's the place to be. gerri: wow. okay. people all over the place on this. david, david, sean. thank you for coming on tonight. good to see you tonight. great job. >> thank you. >> thank you. time for a look on the stories on fox business.com. sample sung signed an agreement with google to cross license the pat tent. it will hopefully cut the risk of costly legal fights over intelligent yule property. samsung said it covers current pat tents and those filed over the next ten years. two big coin operators have been charged with conspire to laundering money. the website lets users buy illegal drugs anonymously.

the two charged are the 24-year-old ceo of instant in manhattan and florida big coin exchanger. as we just mentioned, stocks ending the day slightly lower but not as bad as the route last week when the dow lost 3.5%. inverse were encouraged by sign of stability in argentina and turkey. at&t said it doesn't intend to make out offer to buy out the british cell phone company. they sold 45% stake in verizon backed the company for $130 billion. not ruling out an offer in the future. those are the hot stories right now on foxbusiness.com. still to come, by two cents more. is soda dangerous? we know sugar is not good for you. do some cause cancer? stay with us. with my friends, we'll do almost anything.

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new reports link a common ingredient in soft drinks, colas, to cancer. dr. kevin campbell joins me now with the latest. dr. kevin, come on! i'm not sure i'm buying this. what is this? , i mean, we've been drinking cot wills forever. not everybody has cancer. >> it's true. the substance is called formel. but it gives the soda the caramel or dark color. it's been in sodas for a long time. but there's been some studies done in mice that shows it

causes solid tumor or in the lung or cancer in the lung. no human studies have been done. gerri: okay. dr. kevin, is this four little mice or convincing information? [laughter] >> i think it's convincing information in that this is a substance that causes cancer. the concentration that were given to the mice is very different than what is in soda. in fact, you have to drink almost 1,000 is a d.a.s a day. which i don't think anybody can do. it's a great deal of soda involved. it's a car sin begin. it bothers me. >> you're a doctor. so obviously you're concerned about these issues. isn't there -- it's a color can't i did drink sprite about forget about it? >> if you drink sprite you absolutelies can forget about it. if you want a soda with color, almost all of them have some in. some have more some have less. the average is around 200

micrograms. but if you drink a pepsi it's about 200. if you drink a coke it's about a to 6. it's different within the soda makers. gerri: i'm worried about my root beer. that's the on thing i really have. maybe ginger ail or root beer. root beer is brown, my friend. it probably has some in there. what are people supposed to make of studies like? are nay supposed act on them or not? >> i think so you to take it within context. first of all, we know that is a d.a.s are not good for us in the first place. they are empty calories. they contain acid that can eat away at your teeth even if they're diet sodas. and they have additive and preservative. they have 4-mel and things like that. i -- advise people to try water. can give you the satisfaction of cool drink but doesn't have to be brown and have the artificial flavor. >> if you want to make a brown

cola is there some other ingredient to give it the color? >> from what i understand for preparing for the segment. there are other alternatives. i think it's less expensive. so obviously when you try to make a profit you use the least expensive. but it's interesting that some makers can use very small concentrations and have the same coloring and others have higher concentrations. in fact, when consumer reported look at new york state, they sampled colas by the same maker twice within about six months and the concentrations ranged from 40 micrograms to 200 all in the same cola. gerri: that's weird. >> it is. the manufacturing process is not very stream lined, i would think. gerri: or organized or efficient possibly. but i understand you want to give a shoutout to young viewers in carolina, i assume? >> exactly. we have some new viewers on "the willis report." the eighth graders in raleigh, north carolina. asked me to tall to them about making global changes in health

care how they can get involved. they are doing a project to help educate their peers all over the world about childhood obesity, smoking sensation and things like that. these are great kids and new fans of the willis report tonight. gerri: i'm glad to hear about them! thank to the shotout to them and thank you for coming on the show. >> thank you for having me. see you soon. >> thank you. we'll be back with our two cents more and answer to the question of the day. are food stamps too easy to get? hi, are we still on for tomorrow?

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