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French restaurant? i don't want to spend time with french people. i have never been to a dump but i understand the portion size is this big. who want to go to that? >> greg: dana does. she can only fit so much food in her tiny body before swelling up. i had a question. >> dana: take it from there. i don't know what it is about being told you can't do something that makes you want to do it. you don't drinking are soda but i want to buy a huge big gulp and walk around town and shake ice at people. >> greg: you want a big gulp because your hot tub is out of order. >> dana: that's funny. the distu...

Choices because the access isn't there. most items are just not there >> when you can suck down in liquid a day's worth of calories for 2 or 3 bucks before you start cluing, there's a problem. there's a problem. we need to start thinking differentably it. >> i was at a friend's house last night and, you know, in brooklyn and he had the original coke bottles, which they sell in some brooklyn super markets and they are 4 1/2 ounces or something i want to say, 6 1/2 ounces. >> 6 1/2. >> so small, that was, of course, was a portion. that's part of what we have seen over the -- >> i'm really glad y...

Right at portion size them said 32 ounces is ridiculous. i think it is not a specific measure is but a metaphor for what's important. >> is interesting when you know the the exercise and calorie because there's -- the traditional way of understanding, there's input and outputs and two sides of the lemoner in terms of obesity. one of the things we have seen is a shift in emphasis in michelle obama's campaign from food, from calories to exercise. and there is no stroint other side telling people to exercise. one of the things about big food -- >> yeah. >> one ways the couch industry comes up wit...

Programming must meet strict nutritional standards on calories, portion size, sodium, sugar and saturated fat. disney, the parent company of abc, phased out added trans fats at its parks and resorts six years ago and introduced healthier options. they say they saw real results. the new initiative could have a much wider impact. >> what would you say would determine a success? >> this is the way the world needs to go. the way the world will go. and i think more and more companies, as we've already seen, will recognize childhood obesity is a huge and growing problem. and that companies will step...

here's what john edwards had to say after the trial. >> i want to make sure that everyone hears from me and from my voice that while i do not believe i did anything illegal or ever thought i was ever doing anything illegal, i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. >> the federal government still has the option of a retrial, that doesn't seem very likely at this point. joining me to talk about all of that, senior legal analyst jeff toobin and david peril managing ed tord of radaronline.com and former editor-in-chief of "the national enquirer" which first broke the john edwards pregna...