but it's the truth. >> gupta: dr. lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist at the university of california, san francisco, and a pioneer in what is becoming a war against sugar. >> lustig: deep breaths. >> gupta: motivated by his own patients-- too many sick and obese children-- dr. lustig has concluded that sugar, more than any other substance, is to blame. what are all these various diseases that you say are linked to sugar? >> lustig: obesity, type ii diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease itself. >> gupta: lustig says the american lifestyle is killing us. and most of it, you say, is preventable? >> lustig: 75% of it is preventable. >> gupta: while dr. lustig has published a dozen scientific articles on the evils of sugar, it was his lecture on youtube, called "sugar: the bitter truth," that brought his message to the masses. >> lustig: i'm standing here today to recruit you in the war against bad food. >> gupta: by "bad food," dr. lustig means the obvious things such as table sugar, honey, syrup, sugary drinks, an

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dr. sanjay gupta has answers for you. dr. sanjay gupta m.d. starts right now. >> a medical mystery continues with new news about autism. cases are on the roois rise, and not just by a little bit. we'll tell you what we think is going on and also what to look for. >>> also, a just retired top army general has a focus on an increasingly important issue, post traumatic stress disorder. i'm going to ask him about that soldier accused of mass murder in afghanistan. >>> for three days unprecedented for a single case, justices argued about president obama's massive health care law. we've been getting lots of questions, which i'll try to answer in just a minute. first, let's get a quick recap. >> remember, the most controversial part of the law is the so-called individual mandate. that's the requirement that you carry insurance. is it constitutional? it's balancing the other part of the law that the insurance company must cover people who get sick. without healthy people in the system, companies say they would have to make rates, premium rates, sky-hi

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dr. sanjay gupta and this is "the next list." >>> so where are we?> you're at the little devices lab at m.i.t. we're part of the international innovations health group. >> when you think of international innovations and health, you expect to see some gleaming laboratory with the latest and greatest things, but sometimes you need easier products to start with. >> a lot of doctors can heal in sometimes very fundamental ways, so sometimes it's just a the little devices that get in the way that they don't have. and we try to provide those. whether it's an iv alarm or a foot-powered nebulizer, just simple things. it's probably not going to get us anytime soon, but that doesn't matter. our customer at the end of the day is that lonely doctor or nurse in the middle of nowhere or in an overcrowded hospital in a developing world city. some of the challenges that they'll face are a caterizing pen that would allow you to do surgery will short out and not work anymore. a lightbulb from the surgical ward will blow out after seven years of faithful service without

dr. gupta reporter: in an operating room at emory university in atlanta -- >> right now we're just going to anchor this one in place. >> reporter: -- these doctors are trying to use deep brain stimulation to turn off severe depression. >> figuring out where the blood vessels are and obviously choosing the target. is that right? >> reporter: the target is area 25. a junction box for brain circuits that control our moods. >> our patients are miserable. it's beyond sadness. they spend most of their day just sitting there often thinking, you know, why can't i just die? >> reporter: at first, patients are lightly sedated as dr. robert gross drills two holes. with an instrument to guide him, he then inserts the electrodes. to make sure the electrodes are in the right spot, we can actually listen for neurons firing in the brain. the gray matter sounds like this. the white matter is silent. and that's where they want the electrodes. the white matter just below area 25. >> we just confirmed that all ele

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dr. sanjay gupta. >> we overprescribe x-rays. not just dental x-rays but decembers.rticular if you look across society, especially in the united states, it's the most common source of ionizing radiation we get to our bodies. >> does it affect children more. >> children's bones are thinner. when kprag it can penetrate more easily, but also because their brains are developing. they are a little more susceptible to the problems. it's a double whammy, younger, more susceptibility and more x-rays. kids with braces get panoramic. ask the doctor, does he or shall really need this and they will probably cut down on them. >> how often is too often to get dental x-rays. >> the difference between kids and adults. kids a little more frequently because they are more at risk for calf its, maybe one to two years. a lot can be done by physical examination, really getting in and looking as opposed to every time you go to the dent irs, every six months getting x-rays which happens too often. as you get older spread it out even more so, every two to three years. the question a lot of p

dr. sanjay gupta on the story, next. [ male announcer ] nature valley sweet & salty nut bars. ♪ [ camerad to resist the craveable nature of a nature valley sweet & salty nut bar. >>> there is alarming news about x-rays that we take at the dentist. people who get frequent dental x-rays may be 90% to develop a brain tumor. just one dental x-ray each year could be enough to put you at risk. how often is too often then to get dental x-rays? i asked cnn chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. >> we over prescribe these type of x-rays, not just dental x-rays, lots of tests, with x-rays in particular if you look across society, especially the united states, the most common source of ion izing radiation. >> does it affect children or adults? >> children are more susceptible, you can penetrate more easily, but also because their brains are still developing. they are a little more susce susceptib susceptible, they are younger and have suspendability and getting more x-rays. kids are getting braces get a lot of the panoramic x-rays, again ask the doctor does he need this, does she need this.

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dr. sanjay gupta has the story. >> for as long as edi can remember, she couldn't get the sad thoughts out of her head. >> my mother used to say to me, why don't you smile? i would give something like that, maybe, or just think, what is there to smile about? >> at 19, the first of three suicide attempts. >> for reasons that are inexplicable to me, even now, got up and started playing with a razor. and -- >> you cut your wrists? >> yeah. >> did you cut both your wrists? >> yeah. >> over the next 40 years, she tried counseling, psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive shock therapy, but nothing worked. >> the despair i think, is what is the most powerful push toward -- because it feels like there is no hope. >> but if you could look inside edie's head today, this is what you'd see. two electrodes, the thickness of angel hair pasta, powered by a battery pack under her collarbone. >> i don't think about it but i have electrodes in my brain. >> it's an experimental use of deep brain stimulation. >> so what are we looking at? >> pioneered by this neurologist, the target is called area 25. a junct

gupta, md begins now. >>> hey there, thanks for joining us i'm dr. sanjay gupta.l take to you boston for a look at a new helping kids stay in the classroom and out of the hospital. we'll explain. >>> off to phoenix and los angeles for candid conversation with seven time olympic medalist amanda beard.

gupta m.d. begins right now. >>> hey there, thanks for joining us i'm dr. sanjay gupta. today i'll take to you boston for a look at a new helping kids stay in the classroom and out of the hospital. we'll explain. >>> off to phoenix and los angeles for candid conversation with seven time olympic medalist amanda beard. she will open up about training through this tumultuous adolescence with a goal, to let kids know they are not alone with whether dealing with problems. >>> a problem that affects every single one of us. under the microscope this morning, beyond the fat. there is a new study suggests obesity crisis in america may be worse than we thought. i know it's not what you wanted to hear. bmi, a ratio of height to weight they used that that categorize people as overweight or obese. some say the current thresholds under estimate the problem. four in ten adults whose d bmi that are considered overwheat would be considered obese if their body fat percentage was taken in account. we can't ignore this, because all that extra weight is cutting decades off of peoples lives.

dr. sanjay gupta has the story straight ahead.ranslator: two years after the earthquake, the situation is still the same. the people are still under the tents. they don't have electricity. there is no security where they sleep. they are getting raped. in haiti, things are very difficult. before the earthquake, there were rapes happening. now, i can say it is total disorder. >> translator: adults are not spared,motors are not spared, even babies are not spared. my name is malya. i am a victim of sexual violence. i am on a mission to eradicate this issue so other haitian women do not fall victim. we do awareness in the camps. we were working in 22 camps after the earthquake. now, we are trying to work in others. we tell people to come out of silence, do not be afraid to say that you have been victimized. we offer psychological and legal support. we have a call center. we accompany the victim to the hospital. and we have a safe house program. for me, the first thing is justice that i want. i was a victim and i did not find justice, b

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dr. sanjay gupta. welcome to "the next list." ♪ >> in the big picture architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. the west 57th pronl, it's a really beautiful site, overlooking the hudson river, has a view like we have here. it is perfectly oriented towards the south and the west, but it's right where the west side highway takes off and it's in hell's kitchen, as you can imagine, from the name, it's a pretty sort of industrial neighborhood. so we thought that maybe it would be interesting to really create a sense of place. having spent ten year of our career in copenhagen trying to escape the tyranny, it could be an interesting thing to rediscover in manhattan. like the european courtyard is that the architecture scale is of the urban scale, like an urban oasis at the heart of the city. this is the west 57th street project. as you can see, it's this mixture between a skyscraper and a courtyard building, and to sort of open

dr. sanjay gupta and this is "the next list." >> i guess a lot of people think when it comes to creating a language, all you do is really kind of open the dictionary, come to the first word and say, well, there's "a," the new word for "a" is going to be ugh. it's not like that at all. it's really kind of -- it's like creation itself. hi, i'm david peterson, i'm the creator of the dothraki language for hbo's "game of thrones." >> the dothraki are quite a massive tribe who are very wild. >> a dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair. >> in george's book, the dothraki speak their own language. they don't have any writing, but their speak their own language. and we thought we could create that fictional language for a few lines, just by making up some words. and we tried to do that, and it sounded like gobbledygook. it was complete gibberish. >> so we felt the need to start from scratch and have someone who actually knew what they were doing create a language for us. >> that's where i came in. i created the language for the dothraki and worked as a translato

dr. sanjay gupta. see you back next sunday for "the next list." >>> you're in the "cnn newsroom" this sunday, april 8th. i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with the passing of a tv legend, with a seven-decades-long career. at 93, the man cbs called its "60 minutes" pit bull reporter, mike wallace, passed away last night in connecticut. his name is synonymous with tireless reporting, interviews that pulled no punches, and a nearly 40-year run on the program, "60 minutes." joining me by phone now from new york, tom johnson, former chairman and ceo of cnn, who is also a good friend of wallace for 30 years. tom, first of all, of course, many of us are sorry about the loss, but what an incredible life, what an incredible career. did -- i understand that he passed away in a care facility. did you and many others know that his condition or his ailment was, you know, he was waning? >> yes, we knew that mike was not doing well in recent years. but he had fought a very gallant battle for some time. as much as he

dr. sanjay gupta. you're watching "the next list." >> my name is jad abumrad. i host and produce a show called radiolab, which airs on wnyc, distributed to a bunch of public radio stations. so radiolab is kind of crazy, slightly psychedelic adventure through a big idea. >> we're talking about escape. >> stories of people being trapped and then getting out, getting free. >> they're kind of like these big, usually one-word titles. the stuff that everyone's been thinking about back to aristotle that really has no answer. like, what is time? what is space? what is consciousness. like, how do i know i'm conscious? >> it's big problems that make us curious. this has always been a duet, pretty much from the beginning. at least from my part. >> more of our listeners are getting to listen to the podcast than they get to us over the airwaves. >> being on the internet has only increased our reach, and the number of people who consume public radio. and our radio audience continues the to grow. like all of public radio. >> increasingly, the broadcast becomes a kind of billb

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