weighing too much. we can put a price tag on all of this. that s what is the all about. if you re obese, the majority of your adult life, you will spend an additional $179,000 as compared to someone at a healthy weight. those numbers simply don t lie. our health care system is no doubt bearing the brunt of this extremely costly trend. a talk show host and author, dr. phil mcgraw is on a mission to help americans fight obesity, a subject he feels passionate about and we talked earlier. thanks for joining us, dr. phil, one of the problems attempting to deal with the problem of obesity, are we doing enough to address the psychological component behind it. dr. gupta, i don t think we are. i think the american mindset of weight control is diet. as you know, the research is not supportive of diets, we go on restrictive diets, crash diets, yo-yo diets, however you want to
and gamblers, they got down to brass tacks. a lot more to come. thank you for joining us. a quick reminder about christine s interview with lloyd blankfein. you can see portions of it tomorrow morning at 6:00 eastern. as always, you can find a lot more online including a complete rundown of players at goldman and the roles alleged or admitted in the entire scandal. while you re there, let us know what you think. live chat up and running. up next, epidemic of violence taking the lives of so many children in chicago and the code of silence that makes any progress at stopping the violence seem impossible. another installment on this important medical call series, the enormous price on america s obesity epidemic and dr. phil will join me and talk about dieting the right and wrong way to do it. if we go on restrictive diets, crash diets, yo-yo diets,