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Welcome back to "outnumbered." so great to be here. forget about nuclear weapons and terrorist the biggest threat to national security may be in fact obesity. this is according to the general in charge of army recruiting. he said 10% of the men and women signing up for the army are rejected because they are too heavy and he warned it could get worse. he said quote the obesity issue is the most troubling and we think by 2020 it could be as high as 50% so only 2-10 would qualify to join the army. it is a sad testament to who we are as a society. if the current trend continues the military will n...

Now is not the time to roll back everything we worked for. let me ask you about this politics. what is the republican side against healthy meals for school kids? >> chris, there are financial and political reasons for some to maintain the status quo. there are food processing companies that benefited under the old system and they want to continue to have meals with high sodium, high fat and high sugar content. we, on the other hand, believe it's better for kids to have more fruits, vegetables, low fat dairy and whole grains. we need to get control of the obesity issue and for whatever reason t...

>> agriculture secretary tom vilsack implemented the nutrition guidelines in schools. he joins us. thank you for joining us. let me ask but the politics, what is the republican, if you can generalize it, what is the republican side against healthy meals for schoolkids? >> chris, there are financial and political reasons for some to maintain the status quo. there are food processing companies that benefited under the old system and they want to continue to have meals with high sodium, high fat and high sugar content. we, on the other hand, believe it's better for kids to have more fruits, veget...

Cannot go and get healthy choices. the other issue i want to make sure we address, reverend sharpton is that when we look at childhood obesity, we have a lot of programs that i am really excited about seeing, but we're not going to make a significant dent in childhood obesity until we as mothers and women as fathers address the obesity issue with us because as i tell people, i don't know many children who cook their own food or who go to the grocery store. we make those choices for them. so we have to empower that family to use the resources to help make the choices for the children so that th...

Obesity issue and how health and fitness has-of-something has to be done. finally there is a company encouraging people to say, hey, look, either pay or take care of yourself. >> there are people that say you're discriminating against the sicker employee, am i really sure my information is private. what do you say to them? >> that's the difference between encouraging and compelling. i think there's a really big difference. if cvs wanted to encourage their worker, they could offer some sort of break on insurance or nnks incentive to get people 20 do it voluntarily. once it's defactor compelled ...