people are pretty desperate aren't they to do something? >> our whole country is desperate. it's important to understand this. there is a body mass index. a line in the sand that once you cross it you can't go back and stay back on your own. typically that's been thought to be a body mass index of 40. those are the people i operate on. those are the people that get lap bands. listen to this. just about two years ago the fda approved lap band surgery for people with a bmi of 30 or greater. and one medical problem related to their weight. think about that. so your comment earlier about half of our population in 15 years being obese and needing surgery, that's what i'm looking at. operating on half of all americans. >> i was applauding michael bloomberg for saying, let's deal with these super-sized sodas. they're terrible for everybody. they're making people fast they're rotting their teeth. they're not good for you. clearly people can't be trusted to stop it themselves. let's do something about it. and he lost. let me ask the audience here. it will be quite interesting. i want to ask you two questions. the first one is, do you think