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Forget the brain games, people. turns out exercising can improve memory in older adults, thats according to researchers at a university in illinois after studying 120 healthy seniors those who walked three times a week for a year strengthened the part of the brain thats involved with the long-term memory of places, people, events and things. thats good news. more health news for you now. its about what you eat. new guidelines out there, new dietary guidelines that are encouraging you to focus ...

Turkey and ground beef. and tomatoes of course. cilantro, all those good stuff. >> okay, all the good stuff. healthy stuff. and here they are right now. marshall reed, the creator of that good stuff and his mother, alexandria, are joining me now from raleigh, north carolina. good to see both of you. >> thank you very much for having us. >> so, marshall, let me begin with you. i want to know, so what did you replace the taco shell with? in that taco salad? >> we just replaced it with the normal b...

Figure. because this very broad estimate. so when we look at today and what this announcement is about here, this $800 million for broadband, what we are seeing is an example of that. the latest spending in the hopes of getting some more stuff moving, getting more jobs out there, tony. but obviously, its not everything that the country wants to see, and clearly, like we talked about last hour, it has not been enough to turn around this country or to make a substantial drop in unemployment in ame...

Are so many flavors out there and youre still saying it comes back to the basics of vanilla and chocolate, theyre still americas favorites. so this time of year, you cant go wrong if you go out and get those for your party or your cookout or whatever. >> especially if you get ben and jerrys and hagendaaz. >> yeah. think about the portion size. be aware, sitting with a pint and the spoon is probably not a good thing. >> not your best option. >> would you guys try sugar free iceees? >> and sherbet...

Are to be imposed. those rules go into effect august 22nd. weve all heard this before. portion size is important. but did you know that theres a connection to the paintings of the last supper? researchers at cornell university studied more than 50 paintings of jesus eating with his disciples. and what they found out that over the last 1,000 years, the size of the food on the table increased between 23% and 69%. thats pretty amazing. so perhaps this is an example of life imitating art. >> were ...

Foods, all of these things that we know for sure nowadays are harming children, theyre going to get it. harris: thats helpful, portion size, you say. >> portion size, how many calories are in certain things. grandparents didnt think about those things. you have to remember in their generation, even though they ate all these kinds of foods, they were more active. this is a generation that is not as active, right? your grandparents probably walked to school, and they walked to work, and they did c...

Bloomberg is not around. were cool. its just pop with ice, i hope that is okay. what did you think was in it? >> geraldo: a supersized new york judge has stopped the order for now but the city is appealing saying restricting soda size reduces sugar consumption and thereby reducing obesity but arguing people have the right to be fat, lawmakers in the nations most obese state mississippi passed what they are calling the anti-bloomberg bill. it makes it illegal to regulate portion size and calorie ...

Dieting...is also hell. living your entire life never feeling good enough about your body, always feeling like if you weighed a little less, somehow youd be happier, your life would be better is a horrible way to live. and its a very short step from a full-blown eating disorder. but really, the only way i recovered from my eating disorder and from chronic dieting was to never, ever restrict, ever restrict any kind of food. not even portion size. and that really is the only way that food loses it...