barbara korsch: we used to worry about malnutrition. now our biggest, biggest problem, big in every sense of the word, is obesity at all ages. i see parents using food as rewards all the time, and generally it's food of low nutrient density. it's like candies, cookies, lollipops, the usual sorts of things. tyler was sort of nice... and she's saying please... and basically when you use a food as reward, you're holding up that food as something special. when you think about it, it doesn't quite make sense. it's like, "you're a good boy, here's a lollipop that will cause you to have tooth decay, and has almost nothing in it for your health and well-being." how much sense does that make? that's a big problem that we have, in particular, in overweight children, where grandma's way of rewarding you is a trip to the local fast food chain. i won't impugn any one chain, they're all there-- you know, and fries and a burger are the way to your heart. we have to change that myth. fries and a burger should not be the way to your heart. it's the way

barbara korsch: many people believe a fat baby's a healthy baby, but from a health point of view, more obese babies go on to be fat adults. stopping the progression of obesity in childhood can be a challenge, as dr. korsch and a team of specialists learned. and we had a really hard time getting good results, as has everybody. and one trouble was, the nutritionist would earnestly say, "don't eat between meals," and all that. a lot of those families didn't even have meals. they don't sit down together either at breakfast or lunch or dinner and eat a meal with the children involved, so that it's gotten quite chaotic, and whatever is quick and available and tastes good. and the media, dr. korsch contends, just compound the problem. barbara korsch: television watching is the single thing that has been consistently associated with obesity. and there have even been some really interesting studies that if a child is just just watching television, where they tend to sit very passively, usually also snacking, that their metabolism actually goes down. it's a little bit like hibernation. in recent