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At kkins is a high protein, low carbohydrate diet and good for type ii but nightmare if you are compulsive overeater. >> mike: that's why some diets work for some than other people because the brain triggers a different response. >> right. in the future we will be tailoring diets to people's individual brains. >> mike: what if v you found out -- have you found out about gale? >> clear. type ii, impulsive overeater. i talked her life and i'm sure she has a.d.d. and had it from the time she was a little girl. >> mike: did you know this? >> no. i had an inkling but not on the level -- >> you talk...

Scan is there is too much activity in the front part of the grai brain. like mouse on exercise wheel. can't get off. red is increased activity in the front part of the brain. they need a treatment to calm it down. type ii, is impulsive overeaters where there is not enough activity in the front part of the brain. so too very different patterns that go with overeaters. type three is what we call impulsive/compulsive overeaters and goes with children of alcoholics, people have a lot of alcohol in their family history. type four are the sad overeaters, people who medicate depression with food. typ...

Problematic, why don't people act on that and the message doesn't get through? >> i think the message does get through but i think there's a big disconnect between knowing something much like people can know it's not good for you not to wear a seat belt, not good for you to smoke, not good for you to not exercise, these are tough behavioral things especially on the eating and activity side. so we're placed in an environment where we ask our patients to swim upstream environment, where we ask them to eat more and move less and we ask them to do just the opposite. it's a lot harder than it seems...

He's also a former president of the obesity society. welcome to the program, doctor. >> thank you. it's a pleasure to be with you. >> these numbers are staggering. people paid a lot of attention to the fact that they say a third of americans may have diabetes by the year 2050. people seem to understand diabetes or know about it at least somewhat. what's going on here? why do you think these numbers are expected to continue to increase? >> i think what's behind this is the epidemic of obesity. they are often called twin epidemics of both diabetes and obesity. we know that excess body weight adv...

Too much glucose or sugar in the body. the body is designed to process sugar to enter our cells and provide us with energy. glucose can't enter our cells without insulin that's produced by the pancreas. if you have diabetes, your body is not making enough insulin or it can't properly use the insulin it is producing. as a result, you get too much sugar, stays in the blood and if this occurs over a long period of time it can lead to serious medical problem. there are two main types of diabetes. people call them type i and type ii. 5 to 10% of diabetes have type 1. it's not reversible because the...