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we see linemen who are now 350 pounds. well, these are people whose natural weight is probably 200, 210. so we re adding 140 pounds of playing weight over the course of five and ten years. we re starting in high school. there are now high school offensive and defensive linemen who are north of 300 pounds. the long-term health consequences of that kind of extraordinary weight gain in your teens and 20s are known and devastating. i mean you would if i were to say to you i would like to take your children and i would like to double their weight over the course of the next five years so they can play a game, what would your reaction be? you would say that s insane, right? why would i do that to my child? and yet we re doing this routinely. we re going to talk about what we can do about this in a realistic manner when we come back. more with malcolm gladwell when we come back. with drivers from the coca-cola racing family. coca-coca family track walks give thousands of race fans

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