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>> i don't understand why the school simply doesn't require a physical. >> that's what -- this is part of the physical. >> but this is a conversation the doctor should have between the doctor, the parent, the kid, not a teacher passing a letter that you have to take on the bus and everybody knows it's a fat letter. >> it's concern the parents may not understand nutritional issues send them to a nutrition. >> the best way you learn to eat well is by modelling, by modelling the way people around you are eating, your parents are eating. there are all sorts of ways to put more good food in front o...
Normal. sending a fat letter home? that's ridiculous. >> if you're going to be sending educational material you send it to all the parents of all the kid. >> of course. >> there may be thin kids who never eat a vegetable. he's admitted in the past. >> i'm not a big vegetable eater. i'm working on them. i drink them now. >> in vodka. >> the broader question is whether or not we have to look at what we're doing educationally in terms of whether or not all kids get what i used to get, which is at least one hour of physical education every single day. now they're racheting it. >> now schools are c...