white flour. >> reporter: khalia hopes to lose ten pounds in 28 days, replacing her addictive foods with booster foods. produce the same feel good chemicals in the brain. >> love, love, greek yogurt. >> reporter: what do you replace the ding-dong and potato chip with. >> booster foods keep you very satisfied in the stomach and they actually give you sort of small, steady amounts of these brain chemicals. >> reporter: week one, eat as you always have, but add one booster meal and one booster activity per day. khalia swaps regular pasta for whole grain pasta and veggies. >> it feels good to be preparing something healthy like this. >> reporter: week two, eat as you were, add two booster foods and two booster activities. khalia adds more fresh fruits and salad to her diet. >> my breakfast is like grits and home fries and biscuits and stuff like that. and i know that i can't eat that stuff. so today i am going to start off with a fruit juice. >> reporter: as week two nears its end, khalia hits a stumbling block. >> day nine and day ten has been rough. and i have 18 more days to go. >> report

take message to a lot of people out there, 20-second message is cut down on the satellite, sugar, white flour, and that should take care of the high blood pressure and diabetes and make sure you exercise and stop smoking. we are good at prolonging life and excellent in diagnosing and quantitating but we don't do as well as the quality of our patients, prevention is the way to go in the future. >> kelly: we good advice. >> patti ann: dr. siegel, what would you add in terms of not being that statistic. >> not everyone complies with their medication and, one of the things that came out the review, is 24% of people are not getting their medications or getting to the doctor and as a practicing internist i see the problem of people with two or more problems and i couldn't agree more with david's point about obesity, that is the core of the problem, not just obesity bought being overweight, almost half of americans are overweight, and, are sedentary and we lie on the coach, don't get up, don't exercise and i want to explain why obesity is at the core of this, because people come to me and if they ar

take message to a lot of people out there, 20-second message is cut down on the satellite, sugar, white flourd that should take care of the high blood pressure and diabetes and make sure you exercise and stop smoking. we are good at prolonging life and excellent in diagnosing and quantitating but we don't do as well as the quality of our patients, prevention is the way to go in the future. >> kelly: we good advice. >> patti ann: dr. siegel, what would you add in terms of not being that statistic. >> not everyone complies with their medication and, one of the things that came out the review, is 24% of people are not getting their medications or getting to the doctor and as a practicing internist i see the problem of people with two or more problems and i couldn't agree more with david's point about obesity, that is the core of the problem,

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