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Sensitive to obesity? this year alone, it will cost us close to $147 billion due to this particular chronic disease. we continue this trend, talk about 2018, just a few years away, the coast goes to $344 billion, again, due to obesity. you start to take a macro look at all this, overall, the expenditures, percentage of overall health care spending, about 21%. why? simply because america is too fat. that doesn't take into account what is happening into your body. let me show you a couple things as a doctor. we talk about the effect on heart disease all the time. you look at someone's heart spec...

Tonight is no exception. the high cost of obesity. you know the problem is a big one when you need a new one to describe it. here's one, obesogenic, a big word that is used to describe the american society promoting unhealthy eating habits and being inactive. there are side effects, such as this one. donna simpson. look at her. lives in new jersey, 42 years old and weighs about 600 pounds. donna simpson's goal, to be the fattest woman in america. imagine that. she's trying to pack on more pounds, wants to weigh close to 1,000 pounds. she is an exception to the rule. her story does beg question...

Her story does beg urgent questions. are we as a society too accepting of obesity? what does it really cost us? this year alone, it will cost us close to $147 billion due to this particular chronic disease. if we continue this trend, talk about 2018, just a few years away, the costs go up to $344 billion, again, due to obesity. condition you start to take a macro look at all this, overall, the expenditures, percentage of overall health care spending, about 21%. why? simply because america is too fat. that doesn't take into account what is happening into your body. let me show you a couple thin...

Latest go to scoop.msnbc.com. and there are some things considered news in the world but there are a few stories this morning that make us say no way. you've heard about the push to tax soda. just yesterday we told you about a proposed ban on salt in restaurants. well, now listen to this, some ideas floating around about taxing pizza almost 20%. researchers in the journal "archives of internal medicine" suggest the tax could be a weapon in the fight against obesity. the team estimates that an 18% tax on pizza could cut daily intake by 56 calories per person resulting in weight loss of five pou...

And they're out, they can stop for ice cream, and somebody wants to grab pizza, or they have pancakes with chocolate chips in it, it's not a big deal. that's how kids live. they wouldn't go for it if it were absolutes, and i think that's one of the messages for parents. >> larry: but not daily. >> not daily and not every meal every day, you know. >> larry: according to cnn fat check, the cost of obesity is as high as $147 billion annually. we'll be back with the first lady right after this. a guy named his own price, wants a room tonight for 65 dollars. we don't go lower than 130. big deal, pe...