dr. galston. >> thank you for that kind introduction, thank you for your leadership of the chronic disease center. you have been a fantastic professional partner. [applause] you took the words out of my mouth. wanted to be sure we gave janet a round of applause before we got started on everything she did to bring this conference to fruition and the great progress we are making on this critical issue. a conference like this does not happen without a lot of people working together, partnerships to get the agenda and everyone into town. thank you for all of you who forked is a great day together. you would not be here today to appreciate the magnitude of the national health problem, if you didn't already appreciate it, the talks you heard from dr. frieden and dr. marx reinforced the growing burden of obesity is causing us to shortchange our future, shortchange our future as a productive, healthy nation and also shortchanging our capacity to meet globally in the future. sadly, in spite of the enormous