obtained gps records from the rented lamborghini bieber was driving show there is no evidence of drag ratings. cops claimed they were drag ratings at speed up to 60 miles per hour when they stopped but the gps on just tip s cartel as different story showing maximum speed of 44 miles per hour. this could present big problems for prosecutors, if the pretext for stopping bieber s car proves false the case could be derailed. we ll have to stay tuned for that. what a dolt. jenna: challenge, jon, word of the day. no he is a real dolt. jon: he is maybe misunderstood kid? jenna: 44 in a 15 mile-per-hour zone? i don t know. if they find out that he actually was not drag racing, the whole reason for pulling him over sort of throws the case off. jon: the gps may tell all. thanks, julie. yep. jon: two new studies looking at america s battle with the bulge calling obesity a disease to determining your future weight
welcome back, everybody. if you re not listening to your own doctor you might want to listen to this. because the nation s leading physicians, all of them voting to declare obesity a disease in this country. effective defining 78 million american adults and sadly 12 million children as having a medical condition that does require treatment. dr. samadi, here we go again. another wake-up call. do you think americans will listen and stop overeating? this is a game changer. because now they re going from being very concerned to a real disease. and it s going to change the whole environment of how insurance companies and doctors are going to really treat this. but we have a problem. there s a real epidemic. nobody will deny this. over $150 billion goes into diabetic and obesity-related expenses and medical costs. one out of three americans are suffering from this. two-thirds are overweight. we have to do something. i m glad that they re coming up with this. whether the whole stigmatizing
no one more identifiable with the struggle, triumph and shame of weight loss than oprah winfrey. in the nearly 30 years she s been on televisions we ve watched her negotiate her relationship with food and her own body. she has quite literally put her personal weight battles right on the front page, which helped prime us with the hunger to consume more entertainment featuring people trying to consume less. because we haven t been able to get enough through 14 seasons of obese contestants vying for victory, less body fat and a cash prize on the biggest loser. up next why declaring obesity a disease might not necessarily mean those trying to lose the weight will be the biggest winners. back with more nerdland at the top of the hour. is like hammering. riding against the wind. uphill. every day. we make money on saddles and tubes.
that decision now is not legally binding but it does have major implications and could lead to changes in the treatment and insurance coverage in conditions related to obesity from heart disease to diabetes to even cancer. now the move is not without controversy and for a controversy of spin proportions we come to the spin table. i m not a scientists and i m not not a doctor. my contribution here yet. yet is a careful way to phrase it. my contribution looking at this was looking over something by a doctor who put together some of the materials that led to this change. and in the background section of this sort of report, there are a couple of interesting points about the tension here. on the pro side of labeling obesity a disease is the idea i m reading from the doctor excess body fat resulting from genetic behavioral and environmental factors impairs bodily functions and has genetic ingredients. that makes sense. that s why some people can