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Because the internet pornography is available to anyone. you can be the greatest parent in the world but the hand held devices and everything else now this is is influencing the way british boys, primarily are behaving. is that what you took from this study? >> it is what i took from this study. and that t. is more accessible, bill, its easier for kids to get into their hands. i also think, you made a point here which i think that sometimes gets lost in our conversations. and that is, you can ha...

Because the internet pornography is available to anyone. you can be the greatest parent in the world but the hand held devices and everything else now this is is influencing the way british boys, primarily are behaving. is that what you took from this study? >> it is what i took from this study. and that t. is more accessible, bill, its easier for kids to get into their hands. i also think, you made a point here which i think that sometimes gets lost in our conversations. and that is, you can ha...

Hospital dont make it. seamans has now been in full arrest for close to four minutes. >> stay with me, dear god. >> he wasnt responding, wasnt breathing, didnt look at me, nothing. he was just laying there. >> if we didnt get things going quickly, he was losing brain function every second that we waited. >> dear god, jeff, stay with me. >> officer michael frybarger arrives next carrying an automated stern external defibrillator, a device used to start the heart. >> a heart doesnt actually stop, ...

Getting astonishing scientific results from severe calorie restrictions. decreased cancer risk, increased life expectancy. even improved brain function. >> my body fat went down from 28% to 20%. and my blood glucose went down from diabetic to normal. my cholesterol went down from needing medication to normal. >> reporter: but some nutrition experts say its impossible to know if the diet is safe without more human testing. >> its not safe for somebody under 20 or somebody growing or for kids. and...

Communicate and they put electrodes in their tiny brains in theory would allow them to pass messages along. rat number one in brazil who has been taught now, the end-coder, taught to find the water in his cage by responding to light signals and then pressing a certain lever. rat number two in the united states, the decoder, he has no light signals and he, to find water has to rely solely on the braen signals from rat number one, whos in brazil. yet, rat number two in the u.s. pressed the right l...

Cross over the threshold of death. the flip side is we never forget there is a human being. we study the experience and what we find is astonishing. people who died who have no brain function are able to recall events going on. they see things and hear conversations and their doctors are mystified. some of them are completely correct. what it seems to show us is that after we die, my consciousness and whatever you top the call it, it doesnt become that. we bring them back and fix the brain. >> w...

Twelfth grade, two-thirds of students report binge drink. the problem is still very bad. one in five binge drink. white women reported the most and there is economic factor. highest prevalence making $57,000 a year or more. why is this all important? you alluded a little bit. 12,000 plus deaths per year among women because of binge drinking can lead to a terrible, violence, high blood pressure, stroke, cancer, reduced brain function, unintended pregnancies and fetal alcohol syndrome. >> shep: al...

You want to get it from nuts as a snack food. you want to get it from fish. you want the fish omega 3 fatty aside and it is other thing is what you dont eat. cut out alcohol. some studies show small amounts of alcohol may improve brain function, but a moderate drinker will exok off neurons and have more special more problems. the other thing is coffee. dr. samadi has introduced coffee and the studies are dramatic that coffee improves brain function and decreases risk of depression, up to 6 cups ...

Flexibility. the areas of their brains involving learning and memory were also smaller. the more metabolic syndrome symptoms the teens had the greater the negative effects. though sample size was small, the study indicates a few years of metabolic syndrome can impact brain function. authors say they hope this study will motivate families with children with metabolic syndrome to change their lifestyles. dr. timothy johnson. >> the two biggest factors in childhood obesity. want to take a stab at t...

house? "outfront" tonight, maegan carberry, former communications director of rock the vote. alice stewart is a republican strategist. and michelle goldberg is a senior writer for "newsweek" and the daily beast. lets start with you. whats your sense of how much of this is coincidence with president obama being president and how much of it hes able to take credit for? >> im sure he can take credit for a lot of it. but whats really important is that voters dont hang on every single numbe...