dr. melton mills we toss around these numbers and toss around this idea of type ii diabetes.hat it is and why it is escalating so quickly? >> your, type ii diabetes is charactered by insulin resistance. what it means is that people have -- their body is making insulin but it doesn't work properly. and the only way to get their blood sugar under control is for their pain koreas a, which is the organ that see cretes insulin to see crete more and more. but the pancreas can't keep up. >> americans think there is a magic pill for everything, right? >> actually that's not the case, because yes, there are pills that can try and, again, force the pancreas to secrete more, and so at that point people have to start injecting insulin or injecting drugs to try to make the insulin work better. but what we know is that having high insulin levels in the body creates a number of problems. it tends to cause weight gain, increase disease risk. it promotes something that we call metabolic syndrome, which increases your risk for heart problems. >> bad deal across the board? >> absolutely. >> how

melton. in our quest to understand the importance of the religious diversity, we're at the chicago theological seminary on the university of chicago campus and with us is dr. j. gordon melton the director of the institute for the study of america religion. now gordon could you tell us how important it's really is to understand and appreciate religious diversity? >> i could offer several reflections on that. one is the simple fact that it's there, if we're students of religion and how it functions in the society, then we should be aware that people are very, very diverse in the way that they express their response to the divine. we all do it differently and that leads directly to the kind of moral imperative that's before us. our neighbors believe differently, behave differently than we do. if we are to have a whole community, if we are to bring people together in a cohesive world that can live without violence and without the high crime rates with all of the negative things that we have. one very important building block of that kind of community is knowledge and understanding of people who are different than we are, but who never the less share the same

dr. gingrey for five miminus.am chairman, than much. this hearing is muchate. prot poi pretty poignant to me since brooke melton lived in my congressional district at that time and had it not been for an outstanding plaintiff's attorney in the cobb judicial district in georgia in bringing this case, i'm sure it was against the local dealership, resuld in a settlement, but it brought to light what's going on now and the purpose and hopefully some good can come from this hearing. and i want to thank chairman murphy for holding it and investigating the root causes of the general motors recall of over 2.6 million vehicles linked to these ignition defects. unfortunately, miss barra, i heard just yesterday that the recall now includes 6.3 million vehicles. and i do want to speak a little bit about this young lady named brook melton. a nursing in georgia, which at the time was in the district i represent. and she was as you know tragically killed march the 10th, 2010, on her 29th birthday in a horrific side impact accident on highway 92, and the ignition switch in the accessory position. just the day before, just the