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And I just remember at that time

we called the nutritionist

that he wanted us to

and we were told, "We don't

see children that young."

It has to do

a lot with their self-esteem,

especially with girls once they hit

their teenage years

because, "Oh, I'm the fat kid,

and I always have to

consciously watch what I eat."

My doctor, um...

he told me to join

Weight Watchers,

um, and I can't,

because I'm not old enough yet.

Then we stopped at that point

and said, you know what?

We know... We have the tools.

We know what we're supposed to do.

Let's just try

and do it ourselves.

Some of the things that I do

when I look for healthier choices

is doing the reduced fat...

It's got more fiber in it.

It's made with more whole grains.

I look at the fat content,

but cereal, by its very nature,

is generally pretty low in fat.

So cereal's a good go-to

for pretty much any meal replacement.

I know what my family will eat,

and I try and consider that

when I'm purchasing things.

I would expect that, since I'm

eating healthy and exercising a lot,

that I would be able to lose

more weight than I am.

But my weight has mostly

stayed the same.

So, sometimes it gets

a little bit frustrating.

This whole generation of kids,

they're doing their best.

They're torturing themselves

to do the cure that we tell them,

and it's the wrong cure.

And we're blaming the willpower,

the moral fortitude of these kids,

and it's a crime.

There is a solution to obesity.

It's energy balance.

It's balancing calories in

and calories out.

We're eating and drinking too

much and not getting enough exercise.

We will have

to have greater emphasis

on getting that energy balance.

Nowadays there's this phrase,

"Let's practice energy balance."

Okay, we're gonna make sure

that we know how to match

the calories in

to the calories out

so that we don't get fat.

It's nonsense.

You eat, say,

110 bites of food a day,

and you only burn off 109 of them,

you're gonna get obese in 20 years.

Even if there's a Guinness world record

holder of calorie counting,

calories in to the calories out,

nobody can do it.

3:
40.

- What do you have next?

- Next I have swim team.

We certainly don't want to discourage

people from exercising

or underplay the importance

of physical activity to health,

but we are not gonna exercise

our way out of this obesity problem.

To burn off just one 20-ounce Coke,

a child would have to bike

for an hour and 15 minutes.

Most people don't have

that much time in their day.

So if you burn

a calorie sleeping,

or you burn a calorie exercising,

it's still a calorie burned.

The question is, is a calorie eaten

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