help combat some of the inmate obesity issues we're seeing due to a overly caloric meal with a sedentary lifestyle. for the deputies we improved their meals and added a la carte meals and they can choose what they want to eat for the staff meals and in order to bring more fresh produce to the inmates while they are incarcerated ara mark and the sheriff's department are moving forward with negotiations for ara mark to use produce from the garden project which is a vocational program that occurs at cj5 and at risk youth do gardening services and the budget analyst did a report and they recommend approval. if you have questions i am happy to answer them. >> colleagues any questions or comments? thank you. mr. rose can we go to your report please. >> yes mr. chairman on page 29 of the report we

. >> reporter: the doctor blames the problem on sedentary lifestyles and on islanders' appetite for highmerican food. almost all the food sim ported and fast food is popular because of their fixed low cost menus. the obesity epidemic even affects newborns of overweight mothers. >> a lot of the mothers are diabetic, so when they have babies, their babies are usually large, up to ten or so pounds. >> reporter: in fact, a recent brown university study found that one in five american samoan babies has an excessive birth weight and by just 15 ms. more than 59% of boys and 39% of gills agill girls are overweight or obese. they've launched a new wellness program tracking the obesity of younger children and pushing older children to exercise. olivia has lost 64 pounds. >> i'm perfectly healthy now. i have no health problems. if i don't come to class, i can feel it. >> reporter: in this island's obesity battle, that's one step toward victory. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >>> well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest investigation on the asiana crash in san franc

point nine percent of adult americans are obese and that is an all time high people blame the sedentary lifestyle as the cause yes if you were out all day at work and then all evening after driving home sure doesn't help your waistline but problems can have multiple causes and the authors of the book rich food poor food believe it could be tied to eat foods that are allowed in america but are banned in many other countries across the globe some of these chemicals and techniques and foods that are banned by some other countries are a less strong which is in many snack products which lowers calories but kills your body's ability to absorb minerals brought native flour which saves tons of time for the baker but beats up your internal organs and of course our good old friend synthetic growth hormones which are in livestock which have been linked to cancer big problems really have simple solutions you can run around and exercise as much as you like but if you're being pumped full of these chemicals that are illegal in much of the world well your chances of fitting into that bathing suit are ironically

john blames the problem on sedentary lifestyles and on islander's appetite for high fat american foodt all of the food here is imported and expensive. so fast-food chains are popular because of their fixed low cost menus. but islanders are paying a high price about their health. the obesity epidemic even affects newborns of overweight mothers. >> a lot of the mothers are diabetic. so when they have babies, the babies are usually large and up to 10 or so pounds. >> in fact a recent brown university study found that one in five american samoa babies has an excessive birth weight and more than 39% of boys and 30% of girls are overweight or obese. >> so the island's health department has launched a wellness program tracking the a obesity level of young children and pushing older kids to get active. >> adults are also starting to exercise regularly. olivia reid gillette has lost 64 pounds. >> i'm perfectly healthy now. i have no health problems. if i don't come to class, i can feel it. >> in this island obesity battle that's one step towards victory. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> je

point nine percent of adult americans are obese and that is an all time high people blame the sedentary lifestyle as the cause yes if you were out all day at work and then all evening after driving the home of sure doesn't help your waistline but problems can have multiple causes and the authors of the book rich food poor food believe it could be tied to eat foods that are allowed in america but are banned in many other countries across the globe some of these chemicals and techniques and foods that are banned by some other countries are a less strong which is in many snack products which lower scale worries but kills your body's ability to absorb minerals brought native flour which saves tons of time for the baker but beats up your internal organs and of course our good old friend synthetic growth hormones which are in livestock which have been linked to cancer big problems really have simple solutions you can run around and exercise as much as you like but if you're being pumped full of these chemicals that are illegal in much of the world well your chances of fitting into that bathing suit are

point nine percent of adult americans are obese and that is an all time high people blame the sedentary lifestyle as the cause yes if you were out all day at work and then all evening after driving home sure doesn't help your waistline but problems can have multiple causes and the authors of the book rich food poor food believe it could be tied to eight foods that are allowed in america but are banned in many other countries across the globe some of these chemicals and techniques and foods that are banned by some other countries are a less strong which is in many snack products which lower scale worries but kills your body's ability to absorb minerals brought me to flour which saves tons of time for the baker but beats up your internal organs and of course our good old friend synthetic growth hormones which are in livestock which have been linked to cancer big problems really have simple solutions you can run around and exercise as much as you like but if you're being pumped full of these chemicals that are illegal in much of the world well your chances of fitting into that bathing suit are ironi

point nine percent of adult americans are obese and that is an all time high people blame the sedentary lifestyle as the cause yes if you were out all day at work and then all evening after driving home sure doesn't help your waistline but problems can have multiple causes and the authors of the book rich food poor food believe it could be tied to eight foods that are allowed in america but are banned in many other countries across the globe some of these chemicals and techniques and foods that are banned by some other countries are a less strong which is in many snack products which lower scale worries but kills your body's ability to absorb minerals brought me to flour which saves tons of time for the baker but beats up your internal organs and of course our good old friend synthetic growth hormones which are in livestock which have been linked to cancer big problems really have simple solutions you can run around and exercise as much as you like but if you're being pumped full of these chemicals that are illegal in much of the world well your chances of fitting into that bathing suit are ironi