she is interviewed by gina colada, medical examiner for the new york times. >> there is a set point, your brain sets how much you should weigh. what happens to that as we age. >> it's almost a force of nature that we accumulate more fat, at least a great many of us. we lose a lot of fat busting hormones that we had. they decline and it had helped us metabolize and grow. women and men have less of the hormone as we age. you can't really eat what you did when you were 22. that big plate of food will make you fat as you get older. it's not just the level of fat, it's the distribution of fat as well. >> sunday at 9:00 p.m. on "after words". >> the elite framers, people like addison, thomas jefferson, edison were looking at the direction of a government that would be more constrained, more independent of popular opinion and could actually shut down these populous forces in the state. madison wanted to give the federal government an absolute veto by any law passed by estate. that turned out to be too extreme for the convention. they wrote the revision, article one section ten which bars st

she's interviewed by gina colada, medical reporter for the new york times. >> you told us there's a son.is it changing as you get older ? what happens to it ? >> it's a force of age are that as we get older we cumulate more fat and we use a lot of fat busting hormones. they decline with age for things like growth hormones that we build tissue and help us grow and mature help our fat metabolism and a decline with age. testosterone levels decline with age and nothing great that busting hormones. as you know you can't eat what you did when you were 22. that big they plate of food will make you fat as you get older. it's not just the level of fat but the distribution that's affected as well. >> sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern "after words" the city in the north carolina room in the new head of the county library had where it librarian jennifer has put up some pieces to help tell the story of north carolina's history. >> were kind of unique as a special collections because special collections are usually kind of hard to access if u had gone to university or a historical society but because we

she is interviewed by gina colada, medical examiner for the new york times. >> high sylvia, i really liked reading your book. it was fun and fascinating because i think everybody has questions about why do some people get fat and others not get fat. what don't people understand about this. it seems like it's been a problem for so long. why is it still a problem? one of the things i like about your book is that you have a lot of personal stories. yourself, scientist, people who are struggling with their weight and i was drawn to the book from page one. i think everybody can relate to it. i thought people might like to hear what your book sounds like so i wondered if you could start by reading page one and stop at the end of that anecdote in page two. it was great. >> this is my personal story about how i got into writing this book. the prologue is called skinny teen. it was a greedy friday evening in the fall in san diego. i was a biochemist, phd student. i had a strong interest in biology since grade school, particularly in how the body malfunctions and how we treat it. the idea that

she is interviewed by gina colada. the medical reporter for the new york times. that the brain tells us how much we should way. a force ofmost nature that we accumulate more fat. as we age, we lose a lot of fat busting hormones with age. things like growth hormone that helps us rebuild tissue, that declines with age. testosterone levels decline with age. we both have less of it as we age, both men and women. fat, not just the level of that the distribution of it that is affected as well. 9:00 p.m. eastern on "afterwards." >> german chancellor angela merkel was in washington, d.c. yesterday. at met with president trump the white house where they met with german business leaders, held a bilateral meeting at the oval office took questions from reporters.