Super Size Me
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If the diabetes starts
before the age of 15,

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you lose somewhere between
17 and 27 years of life-span.

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according to the new research,
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the direct medical costs
associated with diabetes

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have doubled.
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The direct medical costs have
doubled in the past five years,

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from $44 billion in 1997
to $92 billion in 2002.

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Somewhere in the neighborhood of
about 20% of the obese children

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have elevated abnormal
liver function tests,

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and we have now started a study
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where we're
biopsying these children

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to see what their livers
actually look like

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under the microscope,
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and half of them have evidence
of scarring of the liver,

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fibrosis of the liver,
the early stages of cirrhosis.

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So, when these children
end up being adults,

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they're going to end up --
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if they don't change their
eating and exercise habits,

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are gonna end up
with liver failure

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and, well,
either transplant or death.

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Did you want lettuce
and mayonnaise on all of them?

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I think it's very, very hard
for overweight teenagers

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because you're always
going to see

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the thin, pretty,
popular girls,

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and you can't help
but look at them

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and think, "I wish I was her,"
or, "I wish I could have that."

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And it's depressing.
It makes you feel like crap.

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That's just how it is,
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and of course
it's hard being a teenager

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because you see all the girls
in the Cosmo girl

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are teen people,
and they're all beautiful,

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and you think, "aren't I
supposed to look like that?"

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And it's just not realistic.
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It's not a realistic
way to live.

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So, without further ado,
let's welcome Jared Fogle.


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