They tell you this all the time, but to hear from another dean, gifts like yours and support like yours make an enormous difference to a place like this. Thank you. Thank you very much. You certainly honored us with your presence. I enjoyed the conversation very much. Will you join me in thanking Justice Kagan . [applause] thank you very much. [applause] president obama and his family are celebrating a quiet thanksgiving at the white house. Spent time at the executive mansion. The menu included turkey, prebaked ham, corn stuffing, oyster stuffing, greens as well as green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, macromedia and shes, and dinner rolls. For dessert, the family had a choice of nine highs, including huckleberry pie, pecan pie, chocolate cream pie, sweet potato prime, Coconut Cream pie, and banana cream pie. The guest list was made public. Wasnt made public. Span, a look at sugar policy in the u. S. With the doctor who hosted a Youtube Video that went viral. Then Supr
It is not quite a revival, but there is going to be a lot of science. The science should influence the policy. The problem is, politics get in the way. That is where law comes in. With that, lets go ahead and start. First of all, i have no disclosures, no Food Industry concern is putting me up to this. [laughter] in 2011, just two years ago, u. S. Secretary general announced that noncommunicable disease that is, type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease was now a bigger problem not just for the developed world, but for the developing world, than was infectious disease. This was a paradigm shift as to how medicine was going to be conducted from here on in and where the resources have to go. The question is, how do you deal with this . They plan to target tobacco, alcohol and diet. Tobacco and alcohol, that is easy. We have paradigms that already work for those. We have 15 years of alcohol control policy, for instance, but what about diet . Are we going to influence total calories . We h
Was valid in 1972 by a french designer when mrs. Nixon was first lady. It is the only rose that will continually grow at the white house. This is the final resting vice of both president and mrs. Nexen , only steps away from the president s humble 19 10 farmhouse. There is a great story behind the epitaph on this is nixons memorial site which she chose herself. She wanted to meet the people that were affected by this devastating earthquake that rocked peru and one of the reporters asked her what good will any of this do if the people you are speaking to cannot understand what you are saying . She replied, even when people cannot speak your language, they can tell if you have love in your heart. Watchtower program on first Lady Pat Nixon or see it saturday on cspan at 7 p. M. Eastern. Our series continues live monday as we look at first lady betty ford. Coming up later today, an event honoring women in politics and a white southerner from charleston, south carolina. She became the First
This is what obese patients tell us. The question is, is sugar addictive . Has anybody seen this movie . Ive got another clip. Im hoping this one works. Yes. [indiscernible] im feeling really, really sick and unhappy. I started eating and over eight. Over ate. I felt so good, it was crazy. Now, does everybody know the story . Morgan spurlock was a vegan because his girlfriend was a vegan chef. He started eating mcdonalds for 30 days nonstop every meal. This is day 18. He just described withdrawal. It can happen to anybody. If you down regulate those dopamine receptors, youre going to need a bigger hit in order to do that. That is called abuse. Finally, externality, in negative impact on society. Societal intervention says that your abuse of a substance has to affect me in a negative way for us to regulate it. For instance, nobody is saying we should regulate caffeine. Your use of caffeine does not affect me. If you smoke or drink or take drugs, that is bad for me, because of Secondhand
The question is, where is the sugar, in what foods . All of them. One third of the sugar we consume is and beverages. Are we know about those. 1 6, desserts. Candy, ice cream. That means fully one half of the foods that have sugar we didnt know had sugar, like salad dressing, yogurt, tomato sauce, ketchup, crackers, other carbohydrate products, all things we didnt know. Does anybody like wheat thins . Check it out. [laughter] and next, they say, we were wrong about fat. We all said, fat was bad, and now you are telling me, it is sugar. What makes you think you are right now . We need more research. Indeed, we do. We absolutely need more research. I dont argue that. Do you know what that is called . That is called the pessimistic metainduction theory. Look it up on wikipedia. This says that whatever we thought 10 years ago is already wrong and whatever we think today will be wrong 10 years from now. True. I have seen these cycles come and go in medicine. The question is, why should we d