instead of keeping my brownies. childhood obesity altogether starts very, very early. laurie myers, joins from milwaukee,s with. good morning to you. i m sure you saw the cover of newsweek called it the culture of porkulense. fe we can pinpoint one thing, why is this crisis such a crisis? who do we blame? i think we can all blame ourselves, as a matter of fact. when you look around, 66% of americans are either overweight or obese. this isn t just the children. we have to start looking at the parents, the adults. it s several generations. so the adults are role models. so we re finding that overweight parents tend to have more overweight children and they also kind of lose their frame of reference. they don t realize their kids are as overweight as they really are.