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This one telling consumers how to burn off the calories in a can of coke. let's take a look at it. critics are attacking the soda giant's new ad campaign saying the biggest contributor to obesity in this country is sugar-sweetened beverages. but a top executive at the company says soda is not to blame for america's weight problem. >> obesity is a real problem in this country. it's a growing problem. and indeed around the world. and too often the debate becomes very simplistic. don't drink soda and the obesity epidemic somehow will magically go away. we don't believe that's true. we don't belie...

Let me get to the obesity story since we have good doctor in the house, okay, then i will get a flu shot, which we can do at any time because they don't hurt and everyone should get one. did you all get yours? do you need one? >> i'm fine. >> i have one just in case. >> i'm fine. >> there is an unlikely debate, if you can believe this, local governments considering similar natures similar to mayor bloomberg's crackdown in new york city. do you like that? >> i love it. >> coca-cola is now stepping into the conversation. coke has unleashed a new ad campaign that defends its record while acknowle...

That we have got to find something you enjoy more. i don't agree with the concept of powerlessness over alcohol. ultimately my hand is the thing that's reaching for that beverage, but it's not that you have no control, it's that you want it so bad that you don't care. you don't care about your family and kids and that's a horrible thing to admit. in order to really fix yourself, you have to be absolutely honest with yourself. even if you don't like the answer. >> how much of this is from your own experience some. >> even though i have never had a weight problem and never been anorexic. i talk ...

To imagine in a country where, like, weight loss shows are very popular, that people will identify with him and perhaps if they don't apir to look like him, he is -- >> who among us have not -- >> i think that's a great point, and i also lot of the way he addresses it. i love the way he is, like, yeah, i have a weight problem. i don't know why. i love that attitude, and i think that's the right way to playoff tv. >> i think there's a class bias to this conversation because, let's be honest, it's really a lot of working class and poor people are heavier now. it's because of diet. it's because o...

And seen this? >>guest: look how young i am. >>neil: you are confident the fiscal cliff can be done and the health care thing can work out to an advantage? >>guest: health care is tougher because it is fundamentally going from a fee-for-service word -- world, to where you have doctors and patients coming together to have care delivered and be purchased in a much better way that prevents disease and encourages people to adopt better habits and behaviors and everything else that drives against diabetes which are driving the health care costs let alone the rampant inefficiencies in health care de...