WEBVTT 00:10.800 --> 00:13.100 align:start >>> SUPPORT FOR THIS PROGRAM IS 00:13.100 --> 00:15.800 align:start PROVIDED BY THE FOUNDATION FOR 00:15.800 --> 00:17.700 align:start EXCELLENCE IN LOUISIANA PUBLIC 00:17.700 --> 00:20.900 align:start BROADCASTING AND FROM VIEWERS 00:20.900 --> 00:45.900 align:start LIKE YOU. 00:45.900 --> 00:47.100 align:start >>> HELLO AND WELCOME TO 00:47.100 --> 00:49.200 align:start "LOUISIANA PUBLIC SQUARE," I'M 00:49.200 --> 00:51.700 align:start BETH COURTNEY, PRESIDENT OF LPB. 00:51.700 --> 00:58.500 align:start JOINING ME FOR TONIGHT'S 00:58.500 --> 01:01.500 align:start DISCUSSION IS DR. RONNY 01:01.500 --> 01:01.900 align:start WHITFIELD 01:01.900 --> 01:04.300 align:start >> OBESITY IS A CONDITION THAT I 01:04.300 --> 01:06.400 align:start SEE MORE AND MORE IN MY 01:06.400 --> 01:06.800 align:start PRACTICE. 01:06.800 --> 01:10.300 align:start THE LATEST STATE OF OBESITY 01:10.300 --> 01:11.800 align:start REPORT BY "ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON 01:11.800 --> 01:12.700 align:start FOUNDATION" RANKS LOUISIANA 01:12.700 --> 01:14.900 align:start FIRST FOR ADULT OBESITY. 01:14.900 --> 01:18.600 align:start THAT'S NOT SURPRISING IN A STATE 01:18.600 --> 01:21.900 align:start WHERE EVERY SOCIAL EVENT IS A 01:21.900 --> 01:22.600 align:start FOOD EVENT. 01:22.600 --> 01:26.500 align:start >> YOU KNOW, IF LIVING A 01:26.500 --> 01:29.500 align:start HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE IS ONE OF 01:29.500 --> 01:32.400 align:start YOUR RESOLUTIONS, WE'RE HERE TO 01:32.400 --> 01:32.800 align:start HELP. 01:32.800 --> 01:35.900 align:start EVER WONDER WHICH DIET IS 01:35.900 --> 01:38.300 align:start EFFECTIVE AND WHICH WEIGHT-LOSS 01:38.300 --> 01:39.800 align:start SURGERIES ARE SAFE? 01:39.800 --> 01:42.600 align:start HOW MUCH EXERICIZE DO YOU NEED? 01:42.600 --> 01:47.600 align:start WE BROUGHT TOGETHER DOCTORS, 01:47.600 --> 01:50.700 align:start NUTRITIONISTS AND WEIGHT LOSS 01:50.700 --> 01:53.800 align:start SUCCESS STORIES. 01:53.800 --> 01:56.400 align:start >> MY NAME'S DENISHA THOMAS, 01:56.400 --> 01:58.200 align:start SINCE LAST SUMMER, I'VE LOST 01:58.200 --> 02:00.300 align:start ABOUT 12 POUNDS AND I'VE ALSO 02:00.300 --> 02:04.100 align:start LOST ABOUT 4% OF MY BODY FAT. 02:04.100 --> 02:08.600 align:start >> DENISHA THOMAS IS A SENIOR AT 02:08.600 --> 02:10.500 align:start LSU IN THE KINESIOLOGY PROGRAM. 02:10.500 --> 02:16.800 align:start SHE PARTICIPATED IN A STUDY 02:16.800 --> 02:17.600 align:start CALLED "HEALTHY DETOURS." 02:17.600 --> 02:19.800 align:start IT WAS DESIGNED BY DR. VALERIE 02:19.800 --> 02:20.200 align:start MYERS. 02:20.200 --> 02:22.700 align:start >> I WAS ACTUALLY AT THE 02:22.700 --> 02:25.100 align:start HEAVIEST I HAD EVER BEEN, THAT 02:25.100 --> 02:26.400 align:start CAME WITH BACK PROBLEMS. 02:26.400 --> 02:28.900 align:start IT CAME WITH PROBLEMS WITH 02:28.900 --> 02:30.600 align:start SELF-ESTEEM, PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY 02:30.600 --> 02:32.400 align:start WERE NOTICING. 02:32.400 --> 02:35.400 align:start >> THROUGH AN APP ON HER PHONE, 02:35.400 --> 02:37.900 align:start THOMAS WAS PROMPTED TO EAT 02:37.900 --> 02:40.100 align:start HEALTHIER, SLEEP BETTER AND GET 02:40.100 --> 02:41.300 align:start MORE EXERCISE. 02:41.300 --> 02:44.400 align:start >> THE APP WAS CENTERED AROUND 02:44.400 --> 02:46.900 align:start THE RESTAURANTS IN AND AROUND 02:46.900 --> 02:47.700 align:start THE CAMPUS. 02:47.700 --> 02:51.500 align:start IT SHOWED IF THE RESTAURANT HAD 02:51.500 --> 02:53.200 align:start LOW-FAT OPTIONS OR A GREAT 02:53.200 --> 02:55.200 align:start AMOUNT OF FIBER OR A NICE AMOUNT 02:55.200 --> 02:56.700 align:start OF VEGETABLES. 02:56.700 --> 02:59.600 align:start >> SHE ALSO LEARNED TO PRE-PLAN 02:59.600 --> 03:00.300 align:start HER MEALS. 03:00.300 --> 03:02.900 align:start >> BEFORE THE STUDY, IF THERE 03:02.900 --> 03:06.400 align:start WAS A CRAMP IN MY STUDY, THE 03:06.400 --> 03:08.400 align:start RESOURCES ON THE PHONE MADE IT 03:08.400 --> 03:10.400 align:start REALLY EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT 03:10.400 --> 03:13.500 align:start TYPE OF WORKING OUT IF YOU WERE 03:13.500 --> 03:13.800 align:start DOING. 03:13.800 --> 03:16.600 align:start IF I JOG AROUND THE LAKE, I ONLY 03:16.600 --> 03:19.400 align:start NEED TO DO THAT FOR 15 MINUTES. 03:19.400 --> 03:23.500 align:start >> KATE BLUMBERG IS A RESEARCH 03:23.500 --> 03:24.500 align:start DIETICIAN AT PENNINGTON AND SAYS 03:24.500 --> 03:27.500 align:start THIS IS KEY TO MAKING A DIET 03:27.500 --> 03:28.900 align:start SUSTAINABLE AND NOT JUST A 03:28.900 --> 03:29.900 align:start SHORT-TERM SOLUTION. 03:29.900 --> 03:31.800 align:start >> THE BIGGEST PROBLEM PEOPLE 03:31.800 --> 03:33.300 align:start MAKE WHEN THEY ARE PLANNING A 03:33.300 --> 03:35.300 align:start DIET IS THEY DON'T HAVE A 03:35.300 --> 03:36.100 align:start MAINTENANCE PLAN. 03:36.100 --> 03:37.500 align:start WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO AFTER 03:37.500 --> 03:38.400 align:start THEY LOSE THE WEIGHT? 03:38.400 --> 03:40.100 align:start >> THERE ARE MANY DIETS TO 03:40.100 --> 03:41.600 align:start CHOOSE FROM. 03:41.600 --> 03:45.100 align:start >> ALMOST ANY DIET CAN WORK, IF 03:45.100 --> 03:47.400 align:start IT IS REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF 03:47.400 --> 03:48.100 align:start CALORIES THAT PEOPLE ARE 03:48.100 --> 03:49.400 align:start CONSUMING. 03:49.400 --> 03:52.900 align:start YOU KNOW, IF YOU WERE EATING 03:52.900 --> 03:55.100 align:start WHATEVER YOU WANTED TO BEGIN 03:55.100 --> 03:57.900 align:start WITH AND YOU ARE REDUCING, YOU 03:57.900 --> 04:00.400 align:start ARE REDUCING CALORIES. 04:00.400 --> 04:02.500 align:start >> THE PREMISE OF LOW-CARB DIET 04:02.500 --> 04:05.900 align:start IS IF YOU FOCUS MORE ON EATING 04:05.900 --> 04:08.600 align:start PROTEINS AND FATS AND 04:08.600 --> 04:10.600 align:start CARBOHYDRATES, YOUR BODY HAS TO 04:10.600 --> 04:12.700 align:start USE YOUR FAT TO BURN ENERGY. 04:12.700 --> 04:15.600 align:start >> IF TOO FEW CARBS ARE TAKEN 04:15.600 --> 04:24.300 align:start IN, THE BODY CAN GO INTO 04:24.300 --> 04:24.700 align:start KETOSIS. 04:24.700 --> 04:28.800 align:start >> CARBS ARE NOT THE ENEMY. 04:28.800 --> 04:32.800 align:start >> THEY SEEM TO BE THE ENEMY, 04:32.800 --> 04:34.400 align:start BUT I THINK IT'S MORE THE 04:34.400 --> 04:35.800 align:start QUALITY OF THE CARBS THAT YOU 04:35.800 --> 04:36.700 align:start ARE HAVING. 04:36.700 --> 04:39.200 align:start SO, YOU KNOW PROCESSED FOODS, 04:39.200 --> 04:42.300 align:start CHIPS, YOU KNOW, A LOT FOODS 04:42.300 --> 04:44.500 align:start WITH SUGAR IN THEM, WE DON'T 04:44.500 --> 04:45.500 align:start NEED THOSE. 04:45.500 --> 04:47.200 align:start BUT OUR BODY DOES NEED FRUITS 04:47.200 --> 04:48.300 align:start AND VEGETABLES. 04:48.300 --> 04:50.500 align:start >> THERE ARE PROS AND CONS TO 04:50.500 --> 04:58.100 align:start MEAL REPLACEMENT DIETS LIKE SLIM 04:58.500 --> 05:02.500 align:start -- SLIMFASTFAST OR NUTRISYSTEM. 05:02.500 --> 05:04.400 align:start >> THE PROBLEM WITH MEAL 05:04.400 --> 05:06.100 align:start REPLACEMENTS IS THAT THERE'S NO 05:06.100 --> 05:07.700 align:start PLAN FOR AFTERWARDS. 05:07.700 --> 05:10.400 align:start IT DOESN'T TEACH PEOPLE 05:10.400 --> 05:10.800 align:start ANYTHING. 05:10.800 --> 05:13.200 align:start IT DOESN'T TEACH THEM PORTION 05:13.200 --> 05:17.700 align:start SIZES OR WHICH FOOD GROUPS ARE 05:17.700 --> 05:18.100 align:start HEALTHY. 05:18.100 --> 05:20.700 align:start >> STUDIES OFTEN INCLUDE 05:20.700 --> 05:23.300 align:start EDUCATION THAT TEACH 05:23.300 --> 05:29.900 align:start PARTICIPANTS VALUABLE LESSONS. 05:29.900 --> 05:31.800 align:start BLUMBERG PROMOTES THE "DASH." 05:31.800 --> 05:33.300 align:start >> IT IS THE DIETARY APPROACH TO 05:33.300 --> 05:33.800 align:start STOP HYPERTENSION. 05:33.800 --> 05:35.300 align:start SO, IT BASICALLY WAS DESIGNED TO 05:35.300 --> 05:39.300 align:start TRY TO SEE IF THEY COULD REDUCE 05:39.300 --> 05:42.500 align:start PEOPLE'S BLOOD PRESSURES. 05:42.500 --> 05:46.600 align:start THEY FOUND THAT IT NOT ONLY 05:46.600 --> 05:48.100 align:start REDUCED THE BLOOD PRESSURE, BUT 05:48.100 --> 05:51.700 align:start HEART RISK AND DIABETES AND ALSO 05:51.700 --> 05:53.600 align:start HELPED PEOPLE WITH WEIGHT LOSS. 05:53.600 --> 05:56.900 align:start >> IT REQUIRES DECREASED SODIUM 05:56.900 --> 05:59.800 align:start AND SATURATED FATS, ALONG WITH 05:59.800 --> 06:00.900 align:start FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 06:00.900 --> 06:03.400 align:start IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO START A 06:03.400 --> 06:05.600 align:start DIET, CONSULT A DIETICIAN FOR 06:05.600 --> 06:07.100 align:start OFFICIAL ADVICE. 06:07.100 --> 06:08.700 align:start >> I TRUTHFULLY BELIEVE IT IS 06:08.700 --> 06:11.800 align:start NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL. 06:11.800 --> 06:15.100 align:start SOMEONE WHO LIKES TO COOK, THEY 06:15.100 --> 06:17.900 align:start ARE GOING TO DO TERRIBLE AT A 06:17.900 --> 06:18.800 align:start REPLACEMENT-MEAL DIET WHERE THEY 06:18.800 --> 06:21.100 align:start HAVE TO EAT THE SAME THINGS OVER 06:21.100 --> 06:24.600 align:start AND OVER AND THEY DON'T PREPARE 06:24.600 --> 06:25.500 align:start THEM THEIRSELVES. 06:25.500 --> 06:27.100 align:start >> IN LOUISIANA, ONE IN FIVE 06:27.100 --> 06:29.700 align:start RESIDENTS LIVE IN POVERTY, SO 06:29.700 --> 06:32.900 align:start IT'S NOT EASY FOR THOSE OF LOW 06:32.900 --> 06:35.500 align:start SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS TO GET 06:35.500 --> 06:36.100 align:start ACCESS. 06:36.100 --> 06:37.300 align:start MONICA McDANIELS IS CLINICAL 06:37.300 --> 06:39.100 align:start SERVICES MANAGER OF THE STATE'S 06:39.100 --> 06:40.200 align:start WIC PROGRAM. 06:40.200 --> 06:44.500 align:start >> IN AREAS WHERE THERE ARE HIGH 06:44.500 --> 06:54.500 align:start INCIDENTS OF TO DESERT DESERTS, 06:54.500 --> 06:56.200 align:start TRANSPORTATION TO THE GROCERY 06:56.200 --> 06:59.600 align:start STORE MAY BE ONE OF THE 06:59.600 --> 07:02.400 align:start CHALLENGES THAT OUR PARTICIPANTS 07:02.400 --> 07:02.700 align:start PLAN. 07:02.700 --> 07:04.800 align:start >> THE WIC PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, 07:04.800 --> 07:07.600 align:start INFANTS AND CHILDREN, HELPS 07:07.600 --> 07:09.500 align:start MOTHER CHOOSE HEALTHY FOODS. 07:09.500 --> 07:16.900 align:start >> THE WIC PROGRAM TARGETS IRON 07:16.900 --> 07:24.600 align:start NUTRIENTS, VITAMIN A, VITAMIN B, 07:24.600 --> 07:25.900 align:start VITAMIN D. 07:25.900 --> 07:27.500 align:start WE HAVE FOOD PRESCRIPTIONS AND 07:27.500 --> 07:30.200 align:start THERE ARE ONLY CERTAIN FOODS THE 07:30.200 --> 07:32.100 align:start PARTICIPANT WILL BE ABLE TO 07:32.100 --> 07:32.400 align:start PURCHASE. 07:32.400 --> 07:33.700 align:start >> LOSING WEIGHT IS ABOUT 07:33.700 --> 07:36.300 align:start LEARNING TO MAKE HEALTHY 07:36.300 --> 07:36.700 align:start CHOICES. 07:36.700 --> 07:38.900 align:start >> IT IS A LIFESTYLE CHANGE. 07:38.900 --> 07:42.300 align:start YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE 07:42.300 --> 07:42.600 align:start CHANGES. 07:42.600 --> 07:48.500 align:start >> JOINING US IS OUR STUDIO 07:48.500 --> 07:48.900 align:start AUDIENCES. 07:48.900 --> 07:50.600 align:start IT INCLUDES DIFFERENT 07:50.600 --> 07:52.400 align:start INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE AT DIFFERENT 07:52.400 --> 07:54.100 align:start POINTS OF THEIR HEALTHY 07:54.100 --> 07:56.400 align:start LIFESTYLE JOURNEY. 07:56.400 --> 07:58.100 align:start WE'LL HEAR FROM THEM. 07:58.100 --> 08:00.100 align:start WE'LL ALSO HEAR FROM FOLKS WHO 08:00.100 --> 08:08.500 align:start HELPED UNDERSERVED INDIVIDUALS 08:08.500 --> 08:10.700 align:start EAT HEALTHIER. 08:10.700 --> 08:13.900 align:start AMONG 125 RESPONDENTS FROM A 08:13.900 --> 08:16.500 align:start SURVEY, OF THOSE, 71% CONSIDERED 08:16.500 --> 08:18.100 align:start THEMSELVES OVERWITHE. 08:18.100 --> 08:21.600 align:start 28%, A NORMAL WEIGHT. 08:21.600 --> 08:29.700 align:start AND LESS THAN 1%, UNDERWEIGHT. 08:29.700 --> 08:33.400 align:start AND 15% IN THE EXTREMELY OBESE 08:33.400 --> 08:33.800 align:start CATEGORY. 08:33.800 --> 08:35.600 align:start 17% COME UNDER THE NORMAL 08:35.600 --> 08:35.100 align:start CATEGORY. 08:35.100 --> 08:40.200 align:start WHEN IT COMES TO CARBOHYDRATES, 08:40.200 --> 08:44.400 align:start 24% EAT FOUR OR MORE SERVINGS A 08:44.400 --> 08:45.700 align:start DAY. 08:45.700 --> 08:49.300 align:start 33% EAT TWO SERVINGS A DAY AND 08:49.300 --> 08:51.600 align:start ONLY 9% EAT ONE SERVING OF 08:51.600 --> 08:52.100 align:start CARBS. 08:52.100 --> 08:55.400 align:start FOR VEGETABLES, FOUR OR MORE 08:55.400 --> 08:56.400 align:start TIMES A DAY. 08:56.400 --> 09:01.400 align:start MOST RESPONDENTS, ABOUT 34%, EAT 09:01.400 --> 09:03.400 align:start SERVINGS A DAY WHILE 6% DON'T 09:03.400 --> 09:10.700 align:start EAT ANY VEGABLES AT ALL. 09:10.700 --> 09:13.500 align:start 42% HAVEN'T TRIED A DIET. 09:13.500 --> 09:18.900 align:start THE MOST POPULAR DIET IS WEIGHT 09:18.900 --> 09:19.200 align:start WATCHERS. 09:19.200 --> 09:22.100 align:start SOME RESPONDANTS HAVE TRIED 09:22.100 --> 09:23.300 align:start MULTIPLE DIETS. 09:23.300 --> 09:25.400 align:start SO, LET'S START HERE, GUYS. 09:25.400 --> 09:27.800 align:start WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO GET IN 09:27.800 --> 09:29.200 align:start SHAPE? 09:29.200 --> 09:30.400 align:start WE'LL START WITH MONICA. 09:30.400 --> 09:32.300 align:start >> ABSOLUTELY. 09:32.300 --> 09:36.100 align:start MY MOTIVATING FACTOR WAS NOT 09:36.100 --> 09:37.500 align:start WORKING SO MUCH. 09:37.500 --> 09:40.800 align:start I CHOSE THE FIELD OF NUTRITION 09:40.800 --> 09:44.800 align:start TO KEEP ME ACCOUNTABLE, QUITE 09:44.800 --> 09:45.200 align:start HONESTLY. 09:45.200 --> 09:49.300 align:start WHEN LIFE HAPPENS, CHILD-BEARING 09:49.300 --> 09:51.100 align:start YEARS START, YOU SEE THE 09:51.100 --> 09:54.800 align:start FRESHMAN 15 AND I THINK YOU SEE 09:54.800 --> 09:56.100 align:start THE MARRIED 20. 09:56.100 --> 09:56.500 align:start [LAUGHTER] 09:56.500 --> 09:59.700 align:start SO, WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON, 09:59.700 --> 10:00.700 align:start ONCE THE CHILDREN WERE 10:00.700 --> 10:02.900 align:start INDEPENDENT ENOUGH TO, YOU KNOW, 10:02.900 --> 10:05.600 align:start COMPLETE THEIR OWN HOMEWORK, 10:05.600 --> 10:08.200 align:start HAVING A SUPPORTIVE HUSBAND, I 10:08.200 --> 10:10.200 align:start WAS ABLE, AFTER SEVERAL YEARS 10:10.200 --> 10:13.400 align:start OF, YOU KNOW, BEING A NURTURING 10:13.400 --> 10:16.300 align:start MOTHER AND WIFE, TO REDIRECT AND 10:16.300 --> 10:18.700 align:start RECHANNEL MY ENERGY BACK TO 10:18.700 --> 10:19.100 align:start EXERCISE. 10:19.100 --> 10:22.700 align:start AND THAT IS WHERE MY JOURNEY WAS 10:22.700 --> 10:25.100 align:start INCREASING MY PHYSICAL EXERICIZE 10:25.100 --> 10:26.300 align:start BEGAN. 10:26.300 --> 10:30.000 align:start >> VERY GOOD POINT. 10:30.000 --> 10:33.200 align:start WE'RE FEMALE-DOMINATED ON THIS 10:33.200 --> 10:33.600 align:start PANEL. 10:33.600 --> 10:35.200 align:start >> FIRST OF ALL, I GIVE A LOT OF 10:35.200 --> 10:37.000 align:start CREDIT TO THE PEOPLE AT 10:37.000 --> 10:38.200 align:start PENNINGTON BECAUSE THEY HAVE 10:38.200 --> 10:40.100 align:start EDUCATED ME OVER THE YEARS. 10:40.100 --> 10:44.900 align:start I'VE BEEN ON A NUMBER OF THEIR 10:44.900 --> 10:45.500 align:start STUDIES. 10:45.500 --> 10:47.600 align:start PROBABLY THE MOST BENEFICIAL TO 10:47.600 --> 10:51.100 align:start ME HAS BEEN E-MECHANIC, WHICH IS 10:51.100 --> 10:51.600 align:start EXERCISE. 10:51.600 --> 10:53.700 align:start THAT HELPED ME TO DEVELOP A 10:53.700 --> 10:56.400 align:start ROUTINE FOR WORKING OUT AND EVEN 10:56.400 --> 10:59.300 align:start TODAY, A COUPLE YEARS AFTER I 10:59.300 --> 11:01.500 align:start FINISHED THAT STUDY, I AM STILL 11:01.500 --> 11:04.400 align:start WORKING OUT IN THE GYM THREE TO 11:04.400 --> 11:07.100 align:start FOUR TIMES A WEEK. 11:07.100 --> 11:10.400 align:start I'M A LIFETIME WEIGHT WATCHER. 11:10.400 --> 11:11.900 align:start THE STRUGGLE IS STILL BEFORE ME. 11:11.900 --> 11:15.600 align:start >> IT WAS A LIFESTYLE CHANGE FOR 11:15.600 --> 11:15.900 align:start YOU? 11:15.900 --> 11:16.200 align:start >> YES. 11:16.200 --> 11:18.200 align:start >> LINDSAY, YOU WERE A LITTLE 11:18.200 --> 11:19.800 align:start MORE STRATEGIC OR SURGICAL, 11:19.800 --> 11:20.700 align:start MIGHT I SAY? 11:20.700 --> 11:23.400 align:start HOW ABOUT YOUR WEIGHT LOSS 11:23.400 --> 11:23.800 align:start JOURNEY? 11:23.800 --> 11:25.700 align:start >> WELL, BEING A NEW MOTHER AND 11:25.700 --> 11:27.700 align:start GAINING WEIGHT, OF COURSE, I GOT 11:27.700 --> 11:30.300 align:start TO MY UNCOMFORTABLE WEIGHT AND I 11:30.300 --> 11:34.300 align:start WASN'T -- I GUESS YOU COULD SAY, 11:34.300 --> 11:35.700 align:start CONFIDENT, ANYMORE. 11:35.700 --> 11:37.900 align:start I TRIED SEVERAL DIETS AND THEY 11:37.900 --> 11:40.200 align:start JUST DIDN'T AGREE WITH ME. 11:40.200 --> 11:43.300 align:start I DON'T KNOW IF I JUST DIDN'T 11:43.300 --> 11:47.700 align:start STAY WITH THE PLAN,ESPECIALLY 11:47.700 --> 11:49.600 align:start WITH MY HUSBAND'S GOOD COOKING. 11:49.600 --> 11:51.900 align:start I WENT TO THE CLINIC AND THEY 11:51.900 --> 11:53.100 align:start HAVE VERY GOOD SUCCESS WITH IT. 11:53.100 --> 11:54.700 align:start I WENT. 11:54.700 --> 11:56.700 align:start I HAD GOOD SUCCESS WITH IT. 11:56.700 --> 11:59.200 align:start THE POUNDS STARTED DROPPING OFF 11:59.200 --> 11:59.600 align:start IMMEDIATELY. 11:59.600 --> 12:02.800 align:start THEY HELPED ME WITH THE DIET 12:02.800 --> 12:03.800 align:start PLAN. 12:03.800 --> 12:11.400 align:start THE GROCERY LIST AND EVERYTHING 12:11.400 --> 12:13.200 align:start I NEEDED TO DO. 12:13.200 --> 12:14.100 align:start >> WHAT ARE BARRIERS TO WEIGHT 12:14.100 --> 12:15.300 align:start LOSS. 12:15.300 --> 12:17.100 align:start I HEAR TIME IS THE BIGGEST 12:17.100 --> 12:17.500 align:start BARRIERS. 12:17.500 --> 12:19.400 align:start WHAT BARRIERS MIGHT SOME FOLKS 12:19.400 --> 12:19.700 align:start FACE? 12:19.700 --> 12:21.900 align:start >> FOOD, NUMBER ONE. 12:21.900 --> 12:22.300 align:start [LAUGHTER] 12:22.300 --> 12:23.200 align:start >> LOUISIANA 12:23.200 --> 12:23.600 align:start [LAUGHTER] 12:23.600 --> 12:25.800 align:start >> THAT'S RIGHT. 12:25.800 --> 12:31.100 align:start BUT, I HAD LOST ABOUT 25 POUNDS 12:31.100 --> 12:31.500 align:start MYSELF. 12:31.500 --> 12:33.200 align:start I HAVE A HARD TIME. 12:33.200 --> 12:35.600 align:start I ADMIRE AND RESPECT SO MANY OF 12:35.600 --> 12:38.100 align:start THESE FOLKS THAT, YOU KNOW, 12:38.100 --> 12:41.700 align:start COUNT CALORIES AND CARBS AND I 12:41.700 --> 12:44.400 align:start JUST -- TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, 12:44.400 --> 12:46.700 align:start I'M -- THAT'S KIND OF A BARRIER 12:46.700 --> 12:49.200 align:start TO ME. 12:49.200 --> 12:52.100 align:start I'M ABLE TO -- TO CONTROL MY 12:52.100 --> 12:52.400 align:start DIET. 12:52.400 --> 12:54.400 align:start JUST BY CUTTING DOWN ON THE 12:54.400 --> 12:57.300 align:start AMOUNT OF FOOD THAT I EAT AND 12:57.300 --> 12:58.300 align:start LESS ALCOHOL. 12:58.300 --> 13:00.400 align:start YOU KNOW, WE'RE KIND OF A PARTY 13:00.400 --> 13:01.100 align:start STATE, I GUESS. 13:01.100 --> 13:03.300 align:start >> THOSE EMPTY CALORIES. 13:03.300 --> 13:05.100 align:start >> WONDERFUL WAY OF LIFE HERE, 13:05.100 --> 13:06.700 align:start BUT I CAN CUT DOWN ON CALORIES 13:06.700 --> 13:09.800 align:start BY DOING THAT. 13:09.800 --> 13:11.100 align:start MY FAMILY'S PRETTY SUPPORTIVE. 13:11.100 --> 13:12.100 align:start WE DON'T EAT A LOT OF PROCESSED 13:12.100 --> 13:13.300 align:start FOODS. 13:13.300 --> 13:19.500 align:start BUT, ANYWAY, I THINK THOSE 13:19.500 --> 13:21.300 align:start ALCOHOL/FOOD, THOSE THINGS WERE 13:21.300 --> 13:21.700 align:start BARRIERS 13:21.700 --> 13:24.100 align:start >> YOU HEAR THAT MORE CALORIES 13:24.100 --> 13:28.500 align:start IN AND LESS CALORIES OUT. 13:28.500 --> 13:29.900 align:start I HAVE SOME NURSES IN THE 13:29.900 --> 13:31.600 align:start BUILDING AND WE HAVE A DIFFERENT 13:31.600 --> 13:34.100 align:start EXPERIENCE BECAUSE WE ARE 13:34.100 --> 13:35.900 align:start BATTLING WITH THESE PATIENTS 13:35.900 --> 13:36.300 align:start CONSTANTLY. 13:36.300 --> 13:37.800 align:start WHAT DO YOU THINK THE MOTIVATION 13:37.800 --> 13:39.900 align:start WOULD BE FOR THE PATIENT? 13:39.900 --> 13:41.100 align:start >> WELL, I ACTUALLY STARTED MY 13:41.100 --> 13:44.100 align:start JOURNEY, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I WAS 13:44.100 --> 13:45.700 align:start LISTENING TO YOU TELL PATIENTS 13:45.700 --> 13:50.300 align:start SAY, HEY, LOOK, YOU CAN DO THIS, 13:50.300 --> 13:55.700 align:start THAT, INCREASE YOURACTIVITY. 13:55.700 --> 13:57.100 align:start ONE DAY I WENT HOME AND SAID, I 13:57.100 --> 13:59.200 align:start CAN LISTEN TO WHAT THE DOCTOR 13:59.200 --> 14:00.500 align:start SAID AND DO THE SAME THING AND 14:00.500 --> 14:01.800 align:start IT STARTED TO COME OFF AND 14:01.800 --> 14:03.400 align:start PATIENTS STARTED TO NOTICE. 14:03.400 --> 14:05.400 align:start I DIDN'T NOTICE, BUT PATIENTS 14:05.400 --> 14:06.100 align:start STARTED TO NOTICE. 14:06.100 --> 14:08.400 align:start I WALKED INTO THE OFFICE ONE DAY 14:08.400 --> 14:10.300 align:start AND I GOT ON THE SCALE AND THOSE 14:10.300 --> 14:14.400 align:start SIMPLE THINGS OF SAYING, HEY, 14:14.400 --> 14:17.300 align:start LOOK, YOU CAN DO IT. 14:17.300 --> 14:18.400 align:start SO, THAT WAS MY -- 14:18.400 --> 14:20.600 align:start >> ATTITUDE, YEAH. 14:20.600 --> 14:23.600 align:start A LOT OF TIMES -- BEING SOMEONE 14:23.600 --> 14:29.200 align:start WHO WENT THROUGH A PERSONAL 14:29.200 --> 14:33.600 align:start COACH AND LOST THOSE POUNDS, 14:33.600 --> 14:36.700 align:start SOME PATIENTS DON'T GET THAT. 14:36.700 --> 14:39.600 align:start THERE ARE SOME FOLKS THAT DON'T 14:39.600 --> 14:41.800 align:start HAVE ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOODS. 14:41.800 --> 14:45.600 align:start >> I THINK MAINLY THE FACT THAT 14:45.600 --> 14:48.400 align:start I AM WITH THE RED STICK FARMERS 14:48.400 --> 14:51.100 align:start MARKET AND WE PROVIDE IT IN 14:51.100 --> 14:52.100 align:start NORTH AND SOUTH BATON ROUGE 14:52.100 --> 14:52.500 align:start AREAS. 14:52.500 --> 14:54.800 align:start THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN MOSTLY 14:54.800 --> 14:56.200 align:start CHALLENGING ARE THE ONES IN THE 14:56.200 --> 14:58.300 align:start FOOD DESERT AREAS. 14:58.300 --> 15:00.300 align:start I THINK EDUCATION IS KEY TO 15:00.300 --> 15:03.300 align:start GETTING THE WORD OUT ABOUT 15:03.300 --> 15:06.400 align:start THE -- FOOD TRAVELS LESS MILES, 15:06.400 --> 15:09.100 align:start IT'S MORE NUTRITIOUS THAN IF 15:09.100 --> 15:12.500 align:start IT'S COMING FROM OTHER 15:12.500 --> 15:12.900 align:start COUNTRIES. 15:12.900 --> 15:16.100 align:start ACCESS HAS BEEN ONE OF OUR MAJOR 15:16.100 --> 15:17.900 align:start ISSUES IN THE NORTH BATON ROUGE 15:17.900 --> 15:19.600 align:start AND THE SOUTH BATON ROUGE 15:19.600 --> 15:20.300 align:start COMMUNITIES. 15:20.300 --> 15:22.800 align:start WITH THE MAYOR'S HEALTHY CITY 15:22.800 --> 15:24.200 align:start INITIATIVE, THERE WERE QUITE A 15:24.200 --> 15:27.600 align:start FEW PROGRAMS THAT CAME OUT WITH 15:27.600 --> 15:33.100 align:start THAT AND THERE WAS BRAC ON THE 15:33.100 --> 15:35.600 align:start GO AND THE MOBILE FARMERS MARKET 15:35.600 --> 15:37.600 align:start AND FOOD PANTRY SO WE COULD 15:37.600 --> 15:40.800 align:start PROVIDE FOOD IN THE LOW-INCOME 15:40.800 --> 15:41.100 align:start AREAS. 15:41.100 --> 15:43.400 align:start THERE HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT THINGS 15:43.400 --> 15:44.900 align:start PUT INTO PLACE. 15:44.900 --> 15:47.100 align:start THE COMMUNITY BUY-IN IS THE MOST 15:47.100 --> 15:47.100 align:start IMPORTANT THING. 15:47.100 --> 15:50.700 align:start ONCE THEY ADOPT THAT IDEA OF, 15:50.700 --> 15:52.100 align:start HEY, WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR DIET 15:52.100 --> 15:54.400 align:start AND THINK ABOUT THEIR FAMILY 15:54.400 --> 15:56.800 align:start MEMBERS WHO SUFFER FROM DIABETES 15:56.800 --> 15:59.200 align:start AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, THAT'S 15:59.200 --> 16:01.600 align:start HOW WE TACKLE THAT SITUATION. 16:01.600 --> 16:06.100 align:start >> HAS ANYBODY USED ANYTHING 16:06.100 --> 16:06.400 align:start UNIQUE? 16:06.400 --> 16:11.300 align:start A FITBIT CALCULATOR, A TRAINER? 16:11.300 --> 16:12.600 align:start BY SHOW OF HANDS. 16:12.600 --> 16:14.900 align:start NOT AS MANY AS I THOUGHT. 16:14.900 --> 16:20.200 align:start WHAT APPROACH DID YOU USE TO 16:20.200 --> 16:20.700 align:start LOSE WEIGHT. 16:20.700 --> 16:22.100 align:start >> I HAVE A GASTRIC SLEEVE. 16:22.100 --> 16:25.100 align:start WHAT PROMPTED ME TO HAVE THE 16:25.100 --> 16:26.100 align:start SURGERY IS I HAVE AN 11-YEAR-OLD 16:26.100 --> 16:28.800 align:start AND A 17-YEAR-OLD AND I'VE 16:28.800 --> 16:31.100 align:start WATCHED MY MOTHER DIE FROM 16:31.100 --> 16:33.400 align:start DIABETES AT THE AGE OF 62 AND IT 16:33.400 --> 16:34.200 align:start WAS VERY DIFFICULT. 16:34.200 --> 16:35.100 align:start AND I DIDN'T WANT TO DO THAT TO 16:35.100 --> 16:37.200 align:start MY KIDS. 16:37.200 --> 16:40.500 align:start SO, I DECIDED, AFTER BEING 16:40.500 --> 16:42.700 align:start DIAGNOSED WITH INSULIN 16:42.700 --> 16:44.300 align:start RESISTANCE AND ALSO BEING 16:44.300 --> 16:46.600 align:start DIAGNOSED WITH OTHER HEALTH 16:46.600 --> 16:50.100 align:start ISSUES, I ENDED UP BEING 40BMI, 16:50.100 --> 16:53.200 align:start I DECIDED I HAD TO DO SOMETHING. 16:53.200 --> 16:55.500 align:start ALL MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS WERE 16:55.500 --> 16:57.400 align:start LIKE, YOU LOOK GREAT. 16:57.400 --> 16:59.200 align:start YOU LOOK GREAT. 16:59.200 --> 17:02.100 align:start I GUESS THE WAY I CARRIED MY 17:02.100 --> 17:06.100 align:start WEIGHT, IT WAS 17:06.100 --> 17:06.700 align:start EVENINGLY-DISTRIBUTED. 17:06.700 --> 17:09.700 align:start I WAS BREATHING VERY HARD, I WAS 17:09.700 --> 17:10.800 align:start VERY WHEEZY. 17:10.800 --> 17:14.300 align:start I COULDN'T DO PHYSICAL EXERCISE 17:14.300 --> 17:17.200 align:start LIKE I USED TO AND I'D ALWAYS 17:17.200 --> 17:18.700 align:start BEEN A GYM RAT. 17:18.700 --> 17:20.900 align:start I WAS ON DANCE TEAM FOR 18 17:20.900 --> 17:25.900 align:start YEARS, I WAS A CHEERLEADER 17:25.900 --> 17:27.100 align:start GROWING UP. 17:27.100 --> 17:30.300 align:start ONCE I STARTED HAVING KIDS, THE 17:30.300 --> 17:32.100 align:start CHILD-BEARING AND YOU GET 17:32.100 --> 17:33.400 align:start COMPLACENT. 17:33.400 --> 17:33.700 align:start >> LIFE. 17:33.700 --> 17:34.300 align:start >> YEAH, LIFE. 17:34.300 --> 17:38.100 align:start SO, I DECIDED TO DO THIS. 17:38.100 --> 17:41.400 align:start I'VE LOST OVER 60 POUNDS IN JUST 17:41.400 --> 17:44.900 align:start A FEW MONTHS AND I HIGHLY 17:44.900 --> 17:46.300 align:start RECOMMEND IT IF INDIVIDUALS CAN 17:46.300 --> 17:49.900 align:start DO IT AND OTHER OPTIONS DON'T 17:49.900 --> 17:50.300 align:start WORK. 17:50.300 --> 17:52.400 align:start >> WHEN WE ADDRESS OBESITY, WE 17:52.400 --> 17:55.100 align:start CAN INCREASE OUR LIFESPAN BY 17:55.100 --> 17:56.700 align:start REDUCING OUR RISK FOR DIABETES 17:56.700 --> 17:58.200 align:start AND HEART DISEASE SO IT'S 17:58.200 --> 17:59.800 align:start IMPORTANT THAT WE USE NATURAL 17:59.800 --> 18:00.800 align:start APPROACHES AS WELL. 18:00.800 --> 18:02.400 align:start SOMETIMES THE PROCEDURES ARE 18:02.400 --> 18:02.800 align:start NECESSARY. 18:02.800 --> 18:04.400 align:start THAT'S KIND OF ALL THE TIME WE 18:04.400 --> 18:05.800 align:start HAVE FOR THAT SECTION. 18:05.800 --> 18:07.500 align:start I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. 18:07.500 --> 18:09.800 align:start WHEN WE RETURN, WE'LL BE JOINED 18:09.800 --> 18:12.400 align:start BY OUR PANEL TO FURTHER-EXPLORE 18:12.400 --> 18:15.200 align:start HOW TO HAVE A HEALTHY NEW YEAR. 18:15.200 --> 18:15.800 align:start WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. 18:26.600 --> 18:28.300 align:start >>> WELCOME BACK TO "LOUISIANA 18:28.300 --> 18:28.900 align:start PUBLIC SQUARE." 18:28.900 --> 18:30.300 align:start TONIGHT, WE'RE DISCUSSING HOW WE 18:30.300 --> 18:32.500 align:start CAN LIVE HEALTHIER IN THE NEW 18:32.500 --> 18:33.200 align:start YEAR. 18:33.200 --> 18:37.900 align:start JOINING US NOW IS OUR PANEL OF 18:37.900 --> 18:39.600 align:start EXPERTS. 18:39.600 --> 18:44.800 align:start DR. DRAKE BELLANGER IS A 18:44.800 --> 18:45.300 align:start SURGEON. 18:45.300 --> 18:49.100 align:start HE HAS PERFORMED GASTRIC BYPASS 18:49.100 --> 18:51.900 align:start AND GASTRIC BANDING. 18:51.900 --> 18:56.400 align:start CATHERINE CHAMPAGNE IS AT THE 18:56.400 --> 18:57.300 align:start PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH 18:57.300 --> 18:58.100 align:start CENTER. 18:58.100 --> 19:09.100 align:start SHE DEVELOPED THE "DASH" DIET. 19:09.100 --> 19:12.900 align:start RUDY MACKLIN HAS SERVED AS AN 19:12.900 --> 19:15.600 align:start ADVISOR ON HEALTH POLICY ISSUE 19:15.600 --> 19:18.500 align:start WITH UNDERSERVED INDIVIDUALS. 19:18.500 --> 19:20.100 align:start STEPHANIE M. ELWOOD IS AN 19:20.100 --> 19:21.700 align:start EXTENSION ASSOCIATE WITH THE 19:21.700 --> 19:24.100 align:start COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND GARDEN 19:24.100 --> 19:27.500 align:start PROGRAMS AT SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY 19:27.500 --> 19:29.100 align:start AG CENTER. 19:29.100 --> 19:32.400 align:start SHE WORKS TO ERADICATE FOOD 19:32.400 --> 19:32.900 align:start DESERTS. 19:32.900 --> 19:35.200 align:start I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU EACH, 19:35.200 --> 19:38.200 align:start BRIEFLY, IF YOU CAN GIVE 19:38.200 --> 19:43.900 align:start LOUISIANA A GRADE ON THE HEALTH? 19:43.900 --> 19:46.200 align:start >> C+. 19:46.200 --> 19:48.800 align:start >> A C MINUS. 19:48.800 --> 19:51.300 align:start >> AN F. 19:51.300 --> 19:53.200 align:start >> I WOULD GIVE US A C, BECAUSE 19:53.200 --> 19:56.100 align:start WE HAVE LOTS OF POTENTIAL TO 19:56.100 --> 19:57.500 align:start GROW FOOD. 19:57.500 --> 20:02.300 align:start >> I'D PROBABLY GIVE US A D-D+. 20:02.300 --> 20:05.300 align:start THAT'S DEALING WITH THE OBESITY 20:05.300 --> 20:08.400 align:start EPIDEMIC WE HAVE IN THE STATE. 20:08.400 --> 20:12.400 align:start I WANT TO GO TO THE AUDIENCE. 20:12.400 --> 20:14.700 align:start YOU HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE 20:14.700 --> 20:15.900 align:start RESOURCES. 20:15.900 --> 20:17.200 align:start COULD YOU TELL US ABOUT WHAT YOU 20:17.200 --> 20:17.900 align:start WERE ASKING? 20:17.900 --> 20:25.600 align:start >> WELL, I WORK WITH LSU AG 20:25.600 --> 20:28.700 align:start CENTER IN THE SAINT HULENA 20:28.700 --> 20:29.300 align:start PARISH. 20:29.300 --> 20:30.500 align:start SOMETIMES WE SEE THERE ARE NOT 20:30.500 --> 20:32.800 align:start ENOUGH RESOURCES, NOT 20:32.800 --> 20:34.500 align:start NECESSARILY A FOOD DESERT, BUT 20:34.500 --> 20:36.500 align:start THERE'S LACK OF ACCESS TO 20:36.500 --> 20:38.000 align:start DIFFERENT FRESH FOODS, FRUITS 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 align:start AND VEGETABLES FOR THE COMMUNITY 20:40.000 --> 20:41.100 align:start THERE. 20:41.100 --> 20:42.700 align:start SO, JUST WONDERING WHAT TYPE OF 20:42.700 --> 20:45.700 align:start RESOURCES ARE OFFERED BY THE 20:45.700 --> 20:46.700 align:start GOVERNOR'S INITIATIVE 20:46.700 --> 20:48.500 align:start SPECIFICALLY WITH NUTRITION AND 20:48.500 --> 20:49.400 align:start PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. 20:49.400 --> 20:52.600 align:start >> ANYONE ON THE PANEL LIKE TO 20:52.600 --> 20:53.600 align:start TAKE THAT QUESTION? 20:53.600 --> 20:55.000 align:start >> I GUESS IT WAS DIRECTED 20:55.000 --> 20:55.600 align:start TOWARD ME. 20:55.600 --> 20:56.100 align:start [LAUGHTER] 20:56.100 --> 20:59.100 align:start WITH THE GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL OF 20:59.100 --> 21:04.500 align:start PHYSICAL FITNESS AND SPORTS, WE 21:04.500 --> 21:07.300 align:start FOCUS ON OBESITY. 21:07.300 --> 21:11.500 align:start IT CROSSWALKS WITH A LOT OF 21:11.500 --> 21:14.600 align:start OTHER THINGS, DIABETES, HIGH 21:14.600 --> 21:15.300 align:start BLOOD PRESSURE. 21:15.300 --> 21:17.400 align:start IF YOU GET A HANDLE ON OBESITY, 21:17.400 --> 21:20.300 align:start YOU REDUCE THE OTHER DISEASE AND 21:20.300 --> 21:21.700 align:start SICKNESSES AROUND THE STATE. 21:21.700 --> 21:24.200 align:start NOW, I TRAVELED THE ENTIRE STATE 21:24.200 --> 21:27.400 align:start AND THE THING THAT REALLY GIVES 21:27.400 --> 21:29.600 align:start ME GREAT CAUTION IS THE 21:29.600 --> 21:30.100 align:start CHILDREN. 21:30.100 --> 21:33.900 align:start WHEN I SEE CHILDREN AT 10, 11 21:33.900 --> 21:36.700 align:start YEARS OLD WITH HIGH PRESSURE. 21:36.700 --> 21:37.800 align:start UPCOMING WITH OUR YOUTH, COMING 21:37.800 --> 21:39.700 align:start TO BE ADULTS, THEY'RE GOING TO 21:39.700 --> 21:41.400 align:start BE SICK WHEN THEY BECOME ADULTS 21:41.400 --> 21:47.600 align:start SO THAT REALLY MAKES ME REALLY 21:47.600 --> 21:49.500 align:start CONCENTRATED TO PUT A 21:49.500 --> 21:53.700 align:start MICROSCOPIC VIEW ON THE RURAL 21:53.700 --> 21:54.100 align:start AREAS. 21:54.100 --> 21:55.200 align:start >> COULD YOU ASK DR. BELLANGER 21:55.200 --> 21:55.100 align:start YOUR QUESTION? 21:55.100 --> 21:58.100 align:start >> AS AN HR PROFESSIONALS, I'M 21:58.100 --> 21:59.600 align:start LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO 21:59.600 --> 22:03.200 align:start ALLOW PEOPLE TO HAVE GOOD WORK. 22:03.200 --> 22:06.800 align:start WHAT, IF ANY PROGRAMS, DOES THE 22:06.800 --> 22:09.100 align:start STATE OFFER THAT MIGHT GIVE 22:09.100 --> 22:12.900 align:start BUSINESSES AN INCENTIVE, A TAX 22:12.900 --> 22:15.100 align:start INCENTIVE, TO OFFER MORE 22:15.100 --> 22:16.900 align:start WORK/LIFE BALANCE PROGRAMS IN 22:16.900 --> 22:19.100 align:start THEIR ESTABLISHMENTS? 22:19.100 --> 22:22.400 align:start >> MAYBE THAT WAS FOR RUDEY? 22:22.400 --> 22:25.600 align:start >> WE HAVE EMPLOYEE WELLNESS 22:25.600 --> 22:26.200 align:start PROGRAMS. 22:26.200 --> 22:28.400 align:start SOMETIMES WITH YOU'RE EMPLOYER, 22:28.400 --> 22:31.700 align:start IF YOUR INVOLVED IN A PROGRAM, 22:31.700 --> 22:33.900 align:start THEY'LL GIVE YOU A BREAK ON YOUR 22:33.900 --> 22:34.300 align:start INSURANCE. 22:34.300 --> 22:36.700 align:start WE HAVE OWN YOUR OWN HEALTH. 22:36.700 --> 22:38.600 align:start YOU CAN YOU TRACK IT ONLINE, AS 22:38.600 --> 22:41.100 align:start WELL AS WE HAVE CITY VERSUS CITY 22:41.100 --> 22:43.300 align:start CHALLENGES GOING ON. 22:43.300 --> 22:48.700 align:start LIKE, WE HAVE MONROE VERSUS 22:48.700 --> 22:49.700 align:start ALEXANDRIA. 22:49.700 --> 22:58.100 align:start AND WE'RE WORKING ON NEW ORLEANS 22:58.100 --> 23:06.300 align:start VERSES SHREVEPORT. 23:06.300 --> 23:10.100 align:start WHEN YOU HAVE AN EMPLOYEE 23:10.100 --> 23:11.400 align:start WELLNESS PROGRAM IN YOUR 23:11.400 --> 23:13.300 align:start WORKPLACE, YOU HAVE BETTER 23:13.300 --> 23:14.900 align:start EMPLOYEES AND PROFITABLE 23:14.900 --> 23:15.700 align:start EMPLOYEES. 23:15.700 --> 23:18.100 align:start A LOT OF COMPANIES ARE GOING TO 23:18.100 --> 23:19.300 align:start THAT PARTICULAR THING WHEN IT 23:19.300 --> 23:20.800 align:start COMES TO EMPLOYEE WELLNESS AND 23:20.800 --> 23:22.200 align:start WE DO IT AT THE LOUISIANA 23:22.200 --> 23:23.700 align:start DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, AS WELL. 23:23.700 --> 23:25.300 align:start YOU CAN CALL MY OFFICE AND I'LL 23:25.300 --> 23:26.900 align:start HELP YOU GET STARTED. 23:26.900 --> 23:27.300 align:start [LAUGHTER] 23:27.300 --> 23:29.100 align:start >> STEPHANIE, YOU'RE FAMILIAR 23:29.100 --> 23:32.200 align:start WITH THE RESOURCES, AS WELL. 23:32.200 --> 23:35.600 align:start WHAT OTHER OPTIONS ARE 23:35.600 --> 23:35.100 align:start AVAILABLE? 23:35.100 --> 23:38.500 align:start >> I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT THE 23:38.500 --> 23:42.300 align:start PROGRAMMING WE DO AT THE AG 23:42.300 --> 23:42.700 align:start CENTER. 23:42.700 --> 23:46.300 align:start WE WORK WITH DIFFERENT GRANTS. 23:46.300 --> 23:48.700 align:start ONE WAS SCHOOL GARDENS. 23:48.700 --> 23:52.200 align:start TEACHING HEALTH CONSCIOUSNESS, 23:52.200 --> 23:55.700 align:start HAVING GARDENS ON CAMPUS AND 23:55.700 --> 23:58.100 align:start TEACHING THE CONCEPT OF HOW TO 23:58.100 --> 23:58.400 align:start GROW. 23:58.400 --> 24:01.300 align:start WE'VE WORKED WITH INCARCERATED 24:01.300 --> 24:04.300 align:start AND ADJUDICATED YOUTH, ALSO 24:04.300 --> 24:05.900 align:start LANDSCAPING AND OTHER 24:05.900 --> 24:06.400 align:start OPPORTUNITIES. 24:06.400 --> 24:09.800 align:start AND WE'RE ALSO INVOLVED WITH THE 24:09.800 --> 24:12.300 align:start HEALTHY COMMUNITIES GRANT IN 24:12.300 --> 24:14.300 align:start SEVERAL PARISHES. 24:14.300 --> 24:18.300 align:start AND SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOCUSES 24:18.300 --> 24:20.600 align:start ON THE FOOD DESERT NEIGHBORHOODS 24:20.600 --> 24:24.500 align:start AND MAKING MORE FRESH PRODUCE 24:24.500 --> 24:27.800 align:start AVAILABLE THROUGH GARDENING 24:27.800 --> 24:28.200 align:start EFFORTS. 24:28.200 --> 24:30.200 align:start >> DR. CHAMPAGNE, YOU'VE DONE A 24:30.200 --> 24:31.300 align:start LOT OF RESEARCH. 24:31.300 --> 24:33.200 align:start WERE THERE PROGRAMMING OR THINGS 24:33.200 --> 24:35.700 align:start THAT YOU IN COUNTERED THAT MAY 24:35.700 --> 24:37.500 align:start BE RESOURCES THAT MIGHT BE 24:37.500 --> 24:38.300 align:start HELPFUL, AS WELL? 24:38.300 --> 24:40.300 align:start >> MOSTLY, WE'VE DONE DIET 24:40.300 --> 24:42.200 align:start STUDIES, LOOKING AT DIFFERENT 24:42.200 --> 24:45.400 align:start TYPES OF DIETS. 24:45.400 --> 24:48.600 align:start COMPARING DIETS, COMPARING 24:48.600 --> 24:49.100 align:start STRATEGIES. 24:49.100 --> 24:52.100 align:start WE DO KNOW THAT PEOPLE CAN LOSE 24:52.100 --> 24:52.300 align:start WEIGHT. 24:52.300 --> 24:55.400 align:start THE PROBLEM IS, MAINTAINING THE 24:55.400 --> 24:56.100 align:start WEIGHT-LOSS. 24:56.100 --> 24:58.600 align:start SO, ANY STRATEGY THAT YOU CAN 24:58.600 --> 25:00.800 align:start USE, THE ONE THAT I THINK IS THE 25:00.800 --> 25:02.800 align:start MOST EFFECTIVE FOR PEOPLE WHO 25:02.800 --> 25:06.100 align:start DON'T WANT TO HAVE SURGERY, IS 25:06.100 --> 25:08.100 align:start TO RECORD THE FOOD THAT YOU EAT 25:08.100 --> 25:11.100 align:start BECAUSE -- AND, I WILL TELL YOU 25:11.100 --> 25:14.200 align:start BASED ON OUR PARTICIPANTS IN THE 25:14.200 --> 25:16.600 align:start PAST, IT IS THE MOST HATED 25:16.600 --> 25:19.400 align:start STRATEGY, BUT THE MOST EFFECTIVE 25:19.400 --> 25:19.800 align:start STRATEGY. 25:19.800 --> 25:21.800 align:start IT CREATES AWARENESS OF WHAT YOU 25:21.800 --> 25:23.200 align:start ARE PUTTING IN YOUR MOUTH. 25:23.200 --> 25:26.900 align:start I THINK THE CONCEPT, THEN, IS 25:26.900 --> 25:28.600 align:start THAT YOU ACTUALLY CAN -- KNOW 25:28.600 --> 25:30.700 align:start HOW MANY CALORIES IS PHYSICALLY 25:30.700 --> 25:31.800 align:start IN THERE. 25:31.800 --> 25:34.400 align:start WE DID THAT WITH A POUNDS-LOST 25:34.400 --> 25:36.400 align:start STUDY WHERE WE GAVE PARTICIPANTS 25:36.400 --> 25:38.500 align:start MENUS AND THE CONCEPT WAS, 25:38.500 --> 25:42.100 align:start FOLLOW THESE MENUS, BUT THE MORE 25:42.100 --> 25:44.600 align:start LONG-TERM MESSAGE WAS THAT WHEN 25:44.600 --> 25:46.600 align:start YOU SEE HOW MUCH OF EACH FOOD 25:46.600 --> 25:49.700 align:start GROUP IS ON THE PLATE, THEN YOU 25:49.700 --> 25:53.500 align:start COULD TAKE THAT A STEP FURTHER 25:53.500 --> 25:57.800 align:start AND SUBSTITUTE OTHER FOODS TO 25:57.800 --> 25:58.800 align:start MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 25:58.800 --> 26:00.700 align:start >> DR. BELLANGER, I DO MY BEST 26:00.700 --> 26:02.100 align:start TO KEEP MY PATIENTS FROM COMING 26:02.100 --> 26:03.200 align:start TO SEE YOU. 26:03.200 --> 26:05.400 align:start BUT I HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN 26:05.400 --> 26:06.600 align:start THAT. 26:06.600 --> 26:10.100 align:start OBESITY IS TRULY EPIDEMIC. 26:10.100 --> 26:11.500 align:start WOULD YOU ELABORATE ON THE 26:11.500 --> 26:12.700 align:start PATIENT YOU HAVE TO ADDRESS. 26:12.700 --> 26:15.800 align:start THERE ARE MANY CASES NOW THAT 26:15.800 --> 26:16.400 align:start YO 26:16.400 --> 26:18.400 align:start YOU'RE HAVING TO DO THE SURGICAL 26:18.400 --> 26:18.800 align:start PROCEDURES? 26:18.800 --> 26:20.400 align:start >> I THINK ONE OF THE GREATEST 26:20.400 --> 26:23.100 align:start INDICATIONS AND ONE OF THE BEST 26:23.100 --> 26:25.100 align:start INDICATIONS FOR 26:25.100 --> 26:28.100 align:start WEIGHT-LOSSSURGERY IS DIABETES. 26:28.100 --> 26:32.600 align:start WE'RE GETTING A PERSON TO LOSE 26:32.600 --> 26:35.500 align:start WEIGHT, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND 26:35.500 --> 26:39.100 align:start SLEEP APNEA GOES AWAY. 26:39.100 --> 26:47.100 align:start THERE'S AN INTRINSIC PROCESS. 26:47.100 --> 26:49.800 align:start SOMETHING WITHIN THE SURGERY, AS 26:49.800 --> 26:51.400 align:start WELL, THE OPERATION REVERSES 26:51.400 --> 26:56.100 align:start SOME OF THOSE EFFECTS BY THE 26:56.100 --> 26:56.600 align:start CHEMICAL CHANGES. 26:56.600 --> 27:01.100 align:start >> REVERSING DIABETES. 27:01.100 --> 27:03.700 align:start I'VE HAD PATIENTS COME OFF OF 27:03.700 --> 27:05.700 align:start ALL OF THEIR MEDICATIONS AFTER 27:05.700 --> 27:06.200 align:start SURGERY. 27:06.200 --> 27:08.800 align:start I HAVE ONE OF YOUR PATIENTS 27:08.800 --> 27:09.400 align:start HERE. 27:09.400 --> 27:11.600 align:start YOU HAD A QUESTION, AS WELL? 27:11.600 --> 27:13.200 align:start YOU HAD SURGERY BY 27:13.200 --> 27:13.900 align:start DR. BELLANGER. 27:13.900 --> 28:19.500 align:start WHAT LED YOU TO THAT AND HOW ARE -- I TO 28:19.500 --> 28:21.800 align:start AT THAT MYSELF, MY LIFE AND I 28:21.800 --> 28:23.700 align:start SAID, YOU KNOW, GOD MAY HAVE 28:23.700 --> 28:30.700 align:start CAUSED -- CALLED ONE OF MY 28:30.700 --> 28:32.100 align:start CHILDREN HOME AND I'M NOT GOING 28:32.100 --> 28:35.900 align:start TO LIVE VERY LONG IF I CONTINUE 28:35.900 --> 28:37.200 align:start THIS WAY. 28:37.200 --> 28:39.400 align:start HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND THE FEAR 28:39.400 --> 28:42.700 align:start OF GOING TO THE DOCTOR AND 28:42.700 --> 28:46.500 align:start THEY'RE SAYING, CONGRATULATIONS, 28:46.500 --> 28:50.400 align:start YOU'RE SUCCESSFUL IN BECOMING A 28:50.400 --> 28:50.800 align:start DIABETIC. 28:50.800 --> 28:53.700 align:start I DESERVE IT, I NEED A QUICK 28:53.700 --> 28:54.100 align:start JUMP-START. 28:54.100 --> 28:57.500 align:start I MET WITH DR. BELLANGER AND 28:57.500 --> 28:59.600 align:start FROM THERE, I JUST -- I'VE JUST 28:59.600 --> 29:00.400 align:start TAKEN OFF. 29:00.400 --> 29:01.300 align:start I'VE DONE IT. 29:01.300 --> 29:02.700 align:start I'VE MAINTAINED IT. 29:02.700 --> 29:05.100 align:start I'VE CHANGED MY EATING HABITS. 29:05.100 --> 29:08.400 align:start I'VE EVEN LEARNED HOW TO COOK 29:08.400 --> 29:10.900 align:start HEALTHIER FOR MY FAMILY AND -- 29:10.900 --> 29:12.100 align:start >> SO, YOU'D RECOMMEND 29:12.100 --> 29:14.200 align:start DR. BELLANGER? 29:14.200 --> 29:14.600 align:start [LAUGHTER] 29:14.600 --> 29:16.500 align:start >> ABSOLUTELY. 29:16.500 --> 29:16.900 align:start [LAUGHTER] 29:16.900 --> 29:18.700 align:start >> KIND OF GOT THAT FEELING THAT 29:18.700 --> 29:19.800 align:start YOU WOULD. 29:19.800 --> 29:20.100 align:start . 29:20.100 --> 29:20.400 align:start [LAUGHTER] 29:20.400 --> 29:22.600 align:start >> HE'S JUST BEEN A -- IT WAS 29:22.600 --> 29:26.600 align:start JUST A GREAT DECISION. 29:26.600 --> 29:28.200 align:start I'M VERY GLAD THAT I MADE THAT 29:28.200 --> 29:30.100 align:start DECISION TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT 29:30.100 --> 29:32.300 align:start JUST WASN'T WORKING TO DO THAT 29:32.300 --> 29:33.500 align:start ON MY OWN. 29:33.500 --> 29:35.800 align:start I'D LOSE WEIGHT, GAIN IT, LOSE 29:35.800 --> 29:36.500 align:start WEIGHT, GAIN IT. 29:36.500 --> 29:39.900 align:start IT JUST -- YOU KNOW, I JUST 29:39.900 --> 29:42.800 align:start WASN'T LIVING A HEALTHY LIFE. 29:42.800 --> 29:47.600 align:start EXERCISE, 15-20 MILES A WEEK. 29:47.600 --> 29:49.900 align:start I WATCH MY CARBS. 29:49.900 --> 29:51.800 align:start >> DR. BELLANGER, SHE HAD A KEY 29:51.800 --> 29:52.100 align:start POINT. 29:52.100 --> 29:53.800 align:start IT'S NOT JUST A SURGERY. 29:53.800 --> 29:55.900 align:start THERE'S LIFE AFTER SURGERY. 29:55.900 --> 29:57.700 align:start WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS ARE YOU 29:57.700 --> 29:58.800 align:start GIVING PATIENTS? 29:58.800 --> 30:01.600 align:start >> WE LIKE TO FOLLOW-UP WITH OUR 30:01.600 --> 30:04.100 align:start PATIENTS FOR THE FIRST YEAR, IN 30:04.100 --> 30:05.900 align:start THE WEIGHT-LOSS PHASE RIGHT 30:05.900 --> 30:08.500 align:start AFTER SURGERY AND THEN AN 30:08.500 --> 30:11.500 align:start ADDITIONAL FIVE YEARS. 30:11.500 --> 30:13.800 align:start MOST OF THE PROGRAMS HERE AROUND 30:13.800 --> 30:16.800 align:start THE STATE HAVE BEEN ACCREDITED 30:16.800 --> 30:21.200 align:start AS CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE TO 30:21.200 --> 30:22.300 align:start PERFOURM BARIATRIC SURGERY. 30:22.300 --> 30:23.900 align:start ONE OF THE THINGS YOU MUST SHOW 30:23.900 --> 30:25.900 align:start YOU WANT TO DO OR HAVE TO DO IS 30:25.900 --> 30:27.600 align:start FOLLOW THE PATIENTS FOR FIVE 30:27.600 --> 30:28.100 align:start YEARS. 30:28.100 --> 30:29.600 align:start THAT'S WHEN THEY HIT THE MARK 30:29.600 --> 30:31.900 align:start WHERE YOU KNOW THAT CHANCES ARE 30:31.900 --> 30:34.500 align:start THAT WEIGHT LOSS WILL BE 30:34.500 --> 30:35.400 align:start MAINTA 30:35.400 --> 30:36.600 align:start MAINTAINED FOR A VERY LONG TIME. 30:36.600 --> 30:38.700 align:start >> ROBERT, I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM 30:38.700 --> 30:39.000 align:start YOU. 30:39.000 --> 30:44.300 align:start YOU HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT 30:44.300 --> 30:46.100 align:start EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. 30:46.100 --> 30:48.700 align:start ROBERT, HOW MANY PEOPLE COOK? 30:48.700 --> 30:53.500 align:start SHOW OF HANDS? 30:53.500 --> 30:53.900 align:start LINDSAY? 30:53.900 --> 30:54.300 align:start [LAUGHTER] 30:54.300 --> 30:55.800 align:start SO, MR. ROBERT, WHAT WAS YOUR 30:55.800 --> 30:58.100 align:start QUESTION IN REGARDS TO HEALTHY 30:58.100 --> 30:59.300 align:start EATING? 30:59.300 --> 31:02.400 align:start >> I THINK LIKE RUDY ELUDED TO, 31:02.400 --> 31:05.100 align:start IT HAS TO START AS A YOUNG AGE 31:05.100 --> 31:08.300 align:start WITH EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL 31:08.300 --> 31:08.700 align:start PROGRAMS. 31:08.700 --> 31:11.200 align:start THE TIMES I WAS GROWING UP, WE 31:11.200 --> 31:13.200 align:start JUST ATE ANYTHING WE WANTED TO. 31:13.200 --> 31:15.100 align:start MY MOTHER WOULD ALWAYS SAY, 31:15.100 --> 31:17.200 align:start YOU'RE EATING TOO MANY STARCHES, 31:17.200 --> 31:19.800 align:start GET OFF THE STARCHES AND I'D 31:19.800 --> 31:20.900 align:start SAY, WELL, NO. 31:20.900 --> 31:23.100 align:start I WAS HARD-HEADED AND NOW I'M 31:23.100 --> 31:25.700 align:start PAYING FOR IT BECAUSE I'M 31:25.700 --> 31:26.100 align:start DIABETIC. 31:26.100 --> 31:28.200 align:start WE JUST NEED MORE EDUCATION IN 31:28.200 --> 31:30.200 align:start THE STATE BECAUSE WE ALL LOVE TO 31:30.200 --> 31:31.900 align:start EAT. 31:31.900 --> 31:34.500 align:start IT'S JUST A HAPPY, DRINKING, 31:34.500 --> 31:37.300 align:start EATING STATE AND SO WE NEED TO 31:37.300 --> 31:39.800 align:start JUST -- WITH A NEW MAYOR AND THE 31:39.800 --> 31:42.600 align:start NEW GOVERNOR, WE NEED TO COME UP 31:42.600 --> 31:45.500 align:start WITH MORE PROGRAMS. 31:45.500 --> 31:47.100 align:start PENNINGTON'S BEEN GREAT TO ME. 31:47.100 --> 31:50.200 align:start >> YOU WENT A DIFFERENT ROUTE? 31:50.200 --> 31:52.500 align:start YOU TRIED EXERCISE AND DIET, 31:52.500 --> 31:52.800 align:start FIRST. 31:52.800 --> 31:56.400 align:start COULD YOU SHARE YOU STORY? 31:56.400 --> 31:57.600 align:start >> YEAH. 31:57.600 --> 32:01.700 align:start I -- BACK IN 2010 -- WAS IN AN 32:01.700 --> 32:05.600 align:start ACCIDENT TO WHERE I BROKE MY 32:05.600 --> 32:12.500 align:start ANKLE BILATERALLY AND I WAS IN A 32:12.500 --> 32:13.400 align:start WHEELCHAIR. 32:13.400 --> 32:20.600 align:start MY WEIGHT WENT TO 360 POUNDS. 32:20.600 --> 32:21.700 align:start I TRIED USING PARKS. 32:21.700 --> 32:25.700 align:start I WORK FOR BRAC SO WE HAVE MANY 32:25.700 --> 32:26.900 align:start WONDERFUL FACILITIES AND IT 32:26.900 --> 32:29.500 align:start WASN'T WORKING BECAUSE IT WAS A 32:29.500 --> 32:31.500 align:start MINDSET THAT I HAD GOTTEN INTO 32:31.500 --> 32:34.100 align:start AND UNTIL I WAS ABLE TO CORRECT 32:34.100 --> 32:36.500 align:start MY MINDSET, I WASN'T ABLE TO GET 32:36.500 --> 32:37.900 align:start TO THAT. 32:37.900 --> 32:42.100 align:start THE CATALYST WAS WHEN MY HUSBAND 32:42.100 --> 32:42.800 align:start GOT SICK. 32:42.800 --> 32:45.800 align:start HE HAD DIABETES SINCE HE WAS 2 32:45.800 --> 32:50.400 align:start AND FOUR YEARS AGO, HE WAS 32:50.400 --> 32:53.200 align:start DIAGNOSED WITH KIDNEY FAILURE. 32:53.200 --> 32:55.100 align:start THE DOCTOR SAYS, MA'AM, YOU 32:55.100 --> 32:58.100 align:start WON'T BE AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO 32:58.100 --> 32:59.800 align:start TAKE CARE OF YOUR HUSBAND. 32:59.800 --> 33:04.100 align:start HE NEEDED A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT. 33:04.100 --> 33:06.800 align:start I DID THE SURGERY. 33:06.800 --> 33:08.100 align:start THAT WAS THE ROUTE WE DECIDED TO 33:08.100 --> 33:10.300 align:start GO BECAUSE I NEEDED SOMETHING 33:10.300 --> 33:12.800 align:start THAT WAS -- IT'S NOT A 33:12.800 --> 33:18.600 align:start QUICK-FIX, I NEEDED SOMETHING 33:18.600 --> 33:20.600 align:start THAT WAS PERMANENT, MORE 33:20.600 --> 33:23.100 align:start LASTING, SOMETHING I COULD WRAP 33:23.100 --> 33:24.200 align:start MY HEAD AROUND. 33:24.200 --> 33:27.100 align:start MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BOTH BEEN 33:27.100 --> 33:29.400 align:start SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT AND HE HAS 33:29.400 --> 33:33.400 align:start SINCE GOTTEN HIS PANCREAS AND 33:33.400 --> 33:36.100 align:start KIDNEY TRANSPLANT DUE TO HAVING 33:36.100 --> 33:39.400 align:start WEIGHT-LOSSSURGE SURGERY. 33:39.400 --> 33:41.600 align:start TOGETHER, WE'VE LOST ALMOST 400 33:41.600 --> 33:43.700 align:start POUNDS TOGETHER. 33:43.700 --> 33:45.100 align:start WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO BE MORE 33:45.100 --> 33:47.300 align:start ACTIVE TOGETHER NOW. 33:47.300 --> 33:50.300 align:start THIS PAST SEPTEMBER, WE HIKED TO 33:50.300 --> 33:54.600 align:start THE MOUNTAIN AND WITHOUT THAT, 33:54.600 --> 33:58.100 align:start WITHOUT THE EXPERIENCES CHANGING 33:58.100 --> 34:01.100 align:start OUR MINDSET, CHANGING OUR 34:01.100 --> 34:02.300 align:start LIFESTYLES, REALIZING WE GOT TO 34:02.300 --> 34:04.100 align:start THOSE PLACES BECAUSE OF THINGS 34:04.100 --> 34:06.300 align:start WE HAVE DONE OR NOT DONE, THAT'S 34:06.300 --> 34:07.400 align:start WHY WE'RE HERE. 34:07.400 --> 34:10.100 align:start THAT'S WHY WE'RE ABLE TO BE 34:10.100 --> 34:10.400 align:start HERE. 34:10.400 --> 34:13.700 align:start >> MOTIVATION SEEMS TO BE KEY IN 34:13.700 --> 34:14.400 align:start EVERYONE'S CONVERSATION. 34:14.400 --> 34:15.900 align:start DR. CHAMPAGNE, ANY EXPERIENCE 34:15.900 --> 34:17.700 align:start WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT JUST CAN'T 34:17.700 --> 34:19.100 align:start GET MOTIVATED? 34:19.100 --> 34:20.100 align:start CAN'T GET THIS DONE? 34:20.100 --> 34:24.400 align:start >> ACTUALLY, WHEN WE DO A 34:24.400 --> 34:27.700 align:start LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION, 34:27.700 --> 34:29.600 align:start MOTIVATION AND RELAPS 34:29.600 --> 34:31.500 align:start PREVENTION, TIME MANAGEMENT, 34:31.500 --> 34:33.800 align:start STRESS MANAGEMENT, ALL OF THOSE 34:33.800 --> 34:38.400 align:start CONCEPTS ARE EMBEDDED INTO THE 34:38.400 --> 34:38.800 align:start INTERVENTION. 34:38.800 --> 34:41.300 align:start ONE THING THAT'S IMPORTANT IS 34:41.300 --> 34:42.700 align:start THAT -- AND I KNOW THIS IS SORT 34:42.700 --> 34:44.100 align:start OF OFF THE SUBJECT, BUT YOU 34:44.100 --> 34:45.100 align:start KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT DIETS, 34:45.100 --> 34:49.700 align:start ALMOST ANY DIET WILL WORK IF YOU 34:49.700 --> 34:50.500 align:start FOLLOW IT. 34:50.500 --> 34:52.600 align:start THERE'S -- YOU CAN LOSE WEIGHT 34:52.600 --> 34:55.500 align:start ON LOW-CARB DIETS, HIGH-CARB 34:55.500 --> 34:59.500 align:start DIETS, LOW-FAT DIETS, HIGHER-FAT 34:59.500 --> 34:59.800 align:start DIETS. 34:59.800 --> 35:03.600 align:start THE KEY IS COUNTING CALORIES. 35:03.600 --> 35:05.500 align:start THE UNFORFINATE THING ABOUT SOME 35:05.500 --> 35:08.400 align:start OF THE LOW-CARB DIETS IS YOU 35:08.400 --> 35:10.700 align:start RESTRICT FIBER AND THEREFORE YOU 35:10.700 --> 35:12.500 align:start MAY BE MORE PRONE TO COLON 35:12.500 --> 35:14.100 align:start CANCER. 35:14.100 --> 35:17.200 align:start SO, THE AMERICAN DIET, 35:17.200 --> 35:18.300 align:start UNFORTUNATELY, IS TOO LOW IN 35:18.300 --> 35:21.700 align:start FIBER AND IT NEEDS TO BE MUCH 35:21.700 --> 35:24.100 align:start HIGHER, PROBABLE DOUBLE, WHAT 35:24.100 --> 35:26.300 align:start PEOPLE NORMALLY WOULD CONSUME. 35:26.300 --> 35:28.800 align:start BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, MOTIVATION -- 35:28.800 --> 35:32.200 align:start JUST A CASE IN POINT, WE HAD A 35:32.200 --> 35:34.300 align:start STUDY GOING ON AT PENNINGTON 35:34.300 --> 35:37.900 align:start RIGHT AROUND HURRICANE KATRINA 35:37.900 --> 35:40.200 align:start AND A YEAR AFTER HURRICANE 35:40.200 --> 35:41.800 align:start KATRINA, PEOPLE WERE STILL 35:41.800 --> 35:45.100 align:start FINDING EXCUSES NOT TO BE ABLE 35:45.100 --> 35:48.100 align:start TO STICK TO THEIR DIET BECAUSE 35:48.100 --> 35:51.600 align:start THEY HAD PEOPLE IN THEIR HOUSE 35:51.600 --> 35:55.300 align:start AND THEY COULDN'T BE UNKIND AND 35:55.300 --> 35:56.800 align:start NOT LET THEM COOK BAD FOOD FOR 35:56.800 --> 35:57.300 align:start THEM. 35:57.300 --> 36:01.400 align:start SO, IT WAS AN INTERESTING TIME. 36:01.400 --> 36:04.100 align:start BUT, YOU KNOW, FAMILY PRESSURES 36:04.100 --> 36:06.100 align:start AND A LOT OF THOSE REALLY FACTOR 36:06.100 --> 36:06.300 align:start IN. 36:06.300 --> 36:07.800 align:start WE KNOW PEOPLE CAN MAKE A 36:07.800 --> 36:09.600 align:start CHANGE, LIKE I SAID, SUSTAINING 36:09.600 --> 36:10.100 align:start THE CHANGE AND CARRYING IT 36:10.100 --> 36:14.100 align:start FORWARD ARE THE KEY THINGS. 36:14.100 --> 36:17.100 align:start >> YOU CAME UP, DOC, WITH THE 36:17.100 --> 36:17.900 align:start "DASH" DIET. 36:17.900 --> 36:19.500 align:start I WOULD LIKE YOU TO DEFINE THAT 36:19.500 --> 36:21.400 align:start FOR OUR AUDIENCE. 36:21.400 --> 36:24.500 align:start MANY OF MY PATIENTS BATTLE WITH 36:24.500 --> 36:27.700 align:start BUSY SCHEDULES, CHILDREN AND 36:27.700 --> 36:28.500 align:start EATING OUT. 36:28.500 --> 36:31.100 align:start WE TRY TO COOK AT HOME. 36:31.100 --> 36:33.400 align:start I'M NEWLY-MARRIED SO MY WIFE 36:33.400 --> 36:35.400 align:start ENJOYS COOKING SO I'M VERY 36:35.400 --> 36:35.800 align:start FORTUNATE. 36:35.800 --> 36:37.500 align:start WHAT ARE YOU THOUGHTS ABOUT 36:37.500 --> 36:39.100 align:start EATING OUT? 36:39.100 --> 36:40.600 align:start >> WE DID HAVE A DISCUSSION 36:40.600 --> 36:41.300 align:start ABOUT THAT. 36:41.300 --> 36:44.100 align:start WE HAD A STUDY WHERE WE TOLD 36:44.100 --> 36:46.100 align:start PEOPLE THEY COULD ONLY EAT OUT 36:46.100 --> 36:47.400 align:start ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK AND THAT 36:47.400 --> 36:49.100 align:start WAS NOT A VERY GOOD MESSAGE. 36:49.100 --> 36:50.500 align:start WHEN YOU EAT OUT, YOU REALLY 36:50.500 --> 36:52.100 align:start NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE EATING 36:52.100 --> 36:53.600 align:start AND THERE'S STRATEGIES THAT YOU 36:53.600 --> 36:55.100 align:start CAN USE. 36:55.100 --> 36:57.200 align:start YOU CAN ORDER FOOD THAT DOESN'T 36:57.200 --> 36:58.700 align:start HAVE ADDED FAT. 36:58.700 --> 37:02.200 align:start YOU COULD HAVE YOUR SALAD 37:02.200 --> 37:03.100 align:start DRESSING ON THE SIDE. 37:03.100 --> 37:05.100 align:start THERE ARE MANY, MANY OTHER 37:05.100 --> 37:06.400 align:start STRATEGIES THAT CAN BE USED. 37:06.400 --> 37:08.300 align:start BUT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE 37:08.300 --> 37:11.100 align:start "DASH" DIET, THE "DASH" DIET WAS 37:11.100 --> 37:13.700 align:start DESIGNED TO BE A HEALTHY DIET 37:13.700 --> 37:16.300 align:start AND FOR THE SEVENTH YEAR IN A 37:16.300 --> 37:20.200 align:start ROW, IT IS STILL THE HEALTHIER 37:20.200 --> 37:22.400 align:start DIET BY U.S. NEWS AND WORLD 37:22.400 --> 37:23.500 align:start REPORTS. 37:23.500 --> 37:25.300 align:start IF YOU COUNT CALORIES AND YOU 37:25.300 --> 37:27.700 align:start KNOW ABOUT THE FOOD GROUPS, YOU 37:27.700 --> 37:31.200 align:start CAN MAKE VERY POSITIVE CHANGES 37:31.200 --> 37:39.100 align:start AND IT COULD BE MORE 37:39.100 --> 37:39.600 align:start NUTRIENT-DENSE. 37:39.600 --> 37:48.100 align:start >> WE HAVE SOMEONE FROM BRETA 37:48.100 --> 37:48.400 align:start HERE. 37:48.400 --> 37:52.100 align:start >> BRETA'S A NONPROFIT AND WE 37:52.100 --> 37:55.100 align:start SUPPORT SMALL, LOCAL FARMERS 37:55.100 --> 37:57.800 align:start HERE IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. 37:57.800 --> 37:58.800 align:start AND, THEY HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO 37:58.800 --> 38:02.400 align:start BRING THEIR PRODUCT TO OUR 38:02.400 --> 38:04.100 align:start MARKETS SO THEY CAN REACH THE 38:04.100 --> 38:04.900 align:start INDIVIDUALS HERE IN THE BATON 38:04.900 --> 38:09.900 align:start ROUGE AREA AND SOME OF OUR 38:09.900 --> 38:12.500 align:start PRODUCERS GO TO THE CRESCENT 38:12.500 --> 38:13.500 align:start CITY AREA. 38:13.500 --> 38:19.100 align:start >> IS IT STATE-WIDE? 38:19.100 --> 38:20.900 align:start >> NORTH AND SOUTH BATON ROUGE. 38:20.900 --> 38:23.400 align:start ONE OF MAIN GOALS -- ONCE WE 38:23.400 --> 38:25.100 align:start RECEIVE THE FUNDING TO DO THE 38:25.100 --> 38:29.600 align:start MOBILE FARMERS MARKET, WHICH IS 38:29.600 --> 38:34.600 align:start TO TARGET DESERT AREAS, WE WENT 38:34.600 --> 38:38.900 align:start TO GLENN OAKS AREA, SOUTH BATON 38:38.900 --> 38:40.700 align:start ROUGE, STARHILL CHURCH. 38:40.700 --> 38:42.800 align:start WE PROVIDED A POP-UP MARKET 38:42.800 --> 38:43.100 align:start THERE. 38:43.100 --> 38:46.100 align:start WE TARGETED MOSTLY, YOU KNOW, 38:46.100 --> 38:48.900 align:start SENIORS -- BECAUSE OUR MARKETS 38:48.900 --> 38:52.500 align:start COME BETWEEN 8:00 AND 2:00, SO A 38:52.500 --> 38:55.800 align:start LOT OF SENIORS, A LOT OF 38:55.800 --> 38:58.200 align:start RETIREES, SOME FOLKS THAT WERE 38:58.200 --> 38:58.600 align:start DISABLED. 38:58.600 --> 39:00.400 align:start IF WE HAD THOSE WHO WORKED 39:00.400 --> 39:03.100 align:start DURING THOSE HOURS, WE HAVE THE 39:03.100 --> 39:04.900 align:start SATURDAY MARKET DOWNTOWN. 39:04.900 --> 39:07.300 align:start SO EVERYTHING IN THE BATON ROUGE 39:07.300 --> 39:09.900 align:start AREA CAN HAVE ACCESS TO LOCAL, 39:09.900 --> 39:12.600 align:start FRESH PRODUCE HERE, THAT COMES 39:12.600 --> 39:13.700 align:start FROM HERE IN LOUISIANA. 39:13.700 --> 39:18.200 align:start >> FRESH IS BEST AND TRY TO EAT 39:18.200 --> 39:18.500 align:start SEASONAL? 39:18.500 --> 39:21.500 align:start >> I'M A SEASONABLE PERSON. 39:21.500 --> 39:24.400 align:start THINGS ARE NOT IN SEASON OR 39:24.400 --> 39:25.800 align:start WE'LL HAVE A BAD WEATHER 39:25.800 --> 39:27.200 align:start CONDITIONS AND OUR FARMERS 39:27.200 --> 39:28.800 align:start AREN'T GROWING A LOT OF 39:28.800 --> 39:30.200 align:start VEGETABLES AND WE MAY HAVE TO GO 39:30.200 --> 39:34.400 align:start OUT TO OTHER PLACED TO GET OUR 39:34.400 --> 39:35.700 align:start FRESH VEGETABLES. 39:35.700 --> 39:38.500 align:start IF IT'S IN SEASON, THAT'S WHAT 39:38.500 --> 39:40.800 align:start MY FAMILY'S GOING TO HAVE. 39:40.800 --> 39:42.400 align:start >> YOU WORK AROUND THE STATE. 39:42.400 --> 39:46.500 align:start I WANT YOU TO DEFINE WHAT TO 39:46.500 --> 39:46.900 align:start DESERTS. 39:46.900 --> 39:52.100 align:start >> I WORK WITH OUR SNAP AID. 39:52.100 --> 39:54.500 align:start WE HAVE NUTRITION EDUCATORS 39:54.500 --> 39:55.300 align:start THROUGHOUT THE STATE. 39:55.300 --> 39:57.800 align:start WHAT I DO IS I GO IN -- IF IT'S 39:57.800 --> 40:01.100 align:start A SITE, I HELP THEM GUILD A 40:01.100 --> 40:03.400 align:start GARDEN, MAYBE AT ACCOUNTS ON 40:03.400 --> 40:06.100 align:start AGING OR A HEADSTART WHERE THEY 40:06.100 --> 40:12.000 align:start CAN LEARN HOW TO GROW, HARVEST 40:12.000 --> 40:14.900 align:start AND CONTINUE IT SEASONALLY. 40:14.900 --> 40:18.100 align:start >> ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT WE 40:18.100 --> 40:19.900 align:start HAVEN'T LEARNED ABOUT THIS. 40:19.900 --> 40:22.300 align:start PEOPLE AREN'T GROWING AND LIVING 40:22.300 --> 40:23.700 align:start AS THEY SHOULD? 40:23.700 --> 40:26.000 align:start >> I'VE THOUGHT MAYBE CLOSE TO 40:26.000 --> 40:27.700 align:start 2,000 STUDENTS. 40:27.700 --> 40:32.400 align:start IUM MAYBE MORE. 40:32.400 --> 40:34.900 align:start I HAVE A LOT OF RESISTANCE, I 40:34.900 --> 40:37.100 align:start DON'T WANT TO GET MY NAILS 40:37.100 --> 40:37.400 align:start DIRTY. 40:37.400 --> 40:39.500 align:start I DON'T WANT TO GET MY SHOES 40:39.500 --> 40:39.800 align:start DIRTY. 40:39.800 --> 40:41.100 align:start ONCE THEY TOUCH THE SOIL WITH 40:41.100 --> 40:43.300 align:start THEIR HANDS, THERE'S NO GOING 40:43.300 --> 40:43.600 align:start BACK. 40:43.600 --> 40:45.300 align:start THEY ENJOY IT AND THEY LOVE IT 40:45.300 --> 40:47.000 align:start AND IT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE IN 40:47.000 --> 40:49.400 align:start COMMON AND HAVE IN OUR ANCESTRY 40:49.400 --> 40:51.100 align:start AND WE SHOULD RECONNECT WITH IT, 40:51.100 --> 40:52.600 align:start IF WE HAVEN'T. 40:52.600 --> 40:55.400 align:start AND HAVING THE SKILL OF GROWING 40:55.400 --> 40:58.700 align:start YOUR OWN FOOD CAN TAKE YOU A 40:58.700 --> 40:59.300 align:start LONG WAY. 40:59.300 --> 41:01.100 align:start A FOOD DESERT IN URBAN AREAS IS 41:01.100 --> 41:04.400 align:start A NEIGHBORHOOD WITH LOW ACCESS 41:04.400 --> 41:05.500 align:start TO FRESH PRODUCE. 41:05.500 --> 41:09.400 align:start SO, YOU DON'T HAVE A SUPERMARKET 41:09.400 --> 41:11.300 align:start WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE AND IN A 41:11.300 --> 41:13.900 align:start RURAL AREA, IT'S WITHIN 10 41:13.900 --> 41:14.500 align:start MILES. 41:14.500 --> 41:16.600 align:start OFTEN TIMES, WITH FOOD DESERTS, 41:16.600 --> 41:18.200 align:start YOU HAVE LOCACCESS TO 41:18.200 --> 41:21.100 align:start TRANSPORTATION SO IF YOU CAN'T 41:21.100 --> 41:22.800 align:start WALK TO THE SUPERMARKET, YOU'RE 41:22.800 --> 41:24.600 align:start TAKING THE BUS. 41:24.600 --> 41:28.200 align:start IT'S DIFFICULT TO RETRIEVE FRESH 41:28.200 --> 41:28.500 align:start PRODUCE. 41:28.500 --> 41:31.700 align:start ONE CREATIVE WAY TO COMBAT THAT 41:31.700 --> 41:36.100 align:start IS LEARNING HOW TO GROW YOUR ON 41:36.100 --> 41:37.100 align:start FOOD IN YOUR BACKYARD. 41:37.100 --> 41:39.500 align:start IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO THE 41:39.500 --> 41:42.500 align:start STORE TO GET THE COLLARD GREENS, 41:42.500 --> 41:44.100 align:start THAT'S A BLESSING. 41:44.100 --> 41:47.100 align:start >> MY DAD HAD A MINI GARDEN AND 41:47.100 --> 41:50.100 align:start WE'D TAKE THE TOMATOES AND EAT 41:50.100 --> 41:53.900 align:start THEM LIKE APPLES. 41:53.900 --> 41:55.500 align:start >> YOU ARE VERY RESOURCEFUL. 41:55.500 --> 41:57.500 align:start I WANT YOU TO MENTION SOME 41:57.500 --> 41:59.600 align:start THINGS ABOUT THE WIC PROGRAM. 41:59.600 --> 42:02.500 align:start >> WE PARTNER AND COLLABORATE 42:02.500 --> 42:06.100 align:start WITH A LOT OF THE PANELISTS 42:06.100 --> 42:06.500 align:start HERE. 42:06.500 --> 42:09.300 align:start WE WORK WITH THE SNAP AID AND 42:09.300 --> 42:11.500 align:start THE SNAP EDUCATORS COMING TO THE 42:11.500 --> 42:15.400 align:start WIC CLINICS AND PROVIDE SERVICES 42:15.400 --> 42:17.800 align:start AND TEACH OUR WIC PARTICIPANTS 42:17.800 --> 42:18.100 align:start FROM TIME TO TIME ACROSS THE 42:18.100 --> 42:19.100 align:start STATE OF LOUISIANA. 42:19.100 --> 42:22.100 align:start WE ALSO WORK WITH BRETA. 42:22.100 --> 42:26.100 align:start WITH THE FARMERS MARKETS, WE 42:26.100 --> 42:28.500 align:start HIGHLY ENCOURAGE OUR WIC 42:28.500 --> 42:31.800 align:start PARTICIPANTS TO COME AND 42:31.800 --> 42:32.600 align:start PARTICIPATE AND PURCHASE FRESH 42:32.600 --> 42:34.200 align:start FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 42:34.200 --> 42:38.500 align:start THERE'S A MATCHING PROGRAM THAT 42:38.500 --> 42:39.300 align:start WE HAVE. 42:39.300 --> 42:44.100 align:start WE'RE ALSO EXPANDED INTO 42:44.100 --> 42:45.500 align:start ALEXANDRIA, LAKE CHARLES, AS 42:45.500 --> 42:53.900 align:start WELL AS SHREVEPORT. 42:53.900 --> 42:59.600 align:start IN 2009, THE USDA APPROVED THE 42:59.600 --> 43:02.900 align:start WIC PROGRAM TO SERVE OR PROVIDE 43:02.900 --> 43:03.300 align:start WHOLEGRAIN. 43:03.300 --> 43:06.800 align:start SO, WHOLEGRAINS ARE ADDED TO THE 43:06.800 --> 43:08.500 align:start FOOD PACKAGE, AS WELL AS THE 43:08.500 --> 43:11.600 align:start FRESH CHOICE OF FRUITS AND 43:11.600 --> 43:11.100 align:start VEGETABLES. 43:11.100 --> 43:13.800 align:start THE STATE OF LOUISIANA OPTED TO 43:13.800 --> 43:15.700 align:start PROVIDE FRESH-ONLY FRUITS AND 43:15.700 --> 43:19.100 align:start VEGETABLES BECAUSE WE ARE AN 43:19.100 --> 43:21.900 align:start AGRICULTURAL STATE AND FROM 43:21.900 --> 43:24.500 align:start [INDISCERNIBLE] TO ADULTHOOD 43:24.500 --> 43:27.200 align:start WITH OUR CHILD-BEARING AGE 43:27.200 --> 43:29.100 align:start WOMEN, WE WANT THEM TO HAVE THE 43:29.100 --> 43:30.500 align:start OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE FRESH 43:30.500 --> 43:33.200 align:start AND PREPARE FRESH FOR THEIR 43:33.200 --> 43:35.800 align:start FAMILIES TO INTRODUCE TO THE 43:35.800 --> 43:36.200 align:start CHILDREN. 43:36.200 --> 43:39.400 align:start IT STARTS VERY YOUNG WITH REGARD 43:39.400 --> 43:41.900 align:start TO INTRODUCING NEW FOOD IDEAS 43:41.900 --> 43:44.200 align:start AND GETTING OUR CHILDREN 43:44.200 --> 43:48.600 align:start ACCLIMATED ACCLIMATED TO 43:48.600 --> 43:48.100 align:start EXERCISE. 43:48.100 --> 43:50.900 align:start >> WE HAD A VERY INTERESTING 43:50.900 --> 43:52.200 align:start DIALOGUE PRIOR TO THE SHOW. 43:52.200 --> 43:54.600 align:start I JUST WANTED TO DAVID TO SHARE 43:54.600 --> 43:56.300 align:start A LITTLE BIT OF HIS STORY. 43:56.300 --> 43:59.500 align:start IT WAS PRETTY AMAZING AND WE'RE 43:59.500 --> 44:02.100 align:start JUST GLAD THAT YOU'RE DOING 44:02.100 --> 44:02.400 align:start WELL. 44:02.400 --> 44:04.100 align:start >> IT WAS A GREAT JOURNEY. 44:04.100 --> 44:08.400 align:start AT 2 YEARS OLD, I WAS DIAGNOSED 44:08.400 --> 44:10.600 align:start WITH TYPE I DIABETES, WHICH IS 44:10.600 --> 44:11.100 align:start JUVENILE. 44:11.100 --> 44:14.800 align:start I LEARNED HOW TO TAKE MY OWN 44:14.800 --> 44:16.800 align:start INSULIN SHOTS. 44:16.800 --> 44:18.600 align:start SUPPOSED TO LEARN HOW TO EAT. 44:18.600 --> 44:20.700 align:start I NEVER DID WANT TO DO THAT. 44:20.700 --> 44:22.800 align:start GOING THROUGH THE TEENAGE YEARS, 44:22.800 --> 44:23.700 align:start I REBELLED. 44:23.700 --> 44:25.400 align:start I DIDN'T HAVE MY MOM AROUND. 44:25.400 --> 44:27.400 align:start MY DAD WORKED. 44:27.400 --> 44:30.300 align:start SO, I JUST DID WHATEVER IT TOOK 44:30.300 --> 44:31.300 align:start TO GET BY. 44:31.300 --> 44:36.700 align:start IN 2013, I GOT DIAGNOSED WITH, 44:36.700 --> 44:38.500 align:start IN-STAGE RENAL DISEASE. 44:38.500 --> 44:40.100 align:start >> HOW OLD WERE YOU THEN? 44:40.100 --> 44:43.300 align:start >> 32 YEARS OLD. 44:43.300 --> 44:50.400 align:start AND IT WAS IN NOVEMBER OF 2013. 44:50.400 --> 44:56.900 align:start THEY PERFORMED AN AV FISTULA. 44:56.900 --> 45:00.900 align:start THEY CAN DO DIALYSIS IN MY ARM. 45:00.900 --> 45:06.700 align:start I GOT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, SLEEP 45:06.700 --> 45:07.100 align:start APNEA. 45:07.100 --> 45:09.500 align:start AND THEN I GOT TOLD BY THE 45:09.500 --> 45:13.400 align:start DOCTOR, YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO GET A 45:13.400 --> 45:16.800 align:start TRANSPLANT AND A PANCREAS. 45:16.800 --> 45:19.100 align:start THE DIABETES WOULD TEAR MY 45:19.100 --> 45:19.600 align:start KIDNEY UP. 45:19.600 --> 45:21.100 align:start >> YOU HAD TO LOSE WEIGHT? 45:21.100 --> 45:25.100 align:start >> I WAS AT 289 POUNDS AND THEY 45:25.100 --> 45:27.100 align:start SAID I NEED TO BE DOWN TO AT 45:27.100 --> 45:28.200 align:start LEAST 170. 45:28.200 --> 45:30.200 align:start I'VE TRIED DIFFERENT DIETS AND 45:30.200 --> 45:33.200 align:start THE PROBLEM I HAD WAS BEING A 45:33.200 --> 45:39.600 align:start DIABETIC ON A DIABETIC DIET, I 45:39.600 --> 45:42.700 align:start DIDN'T NEED CALCIUM, DIFFERENT 45:42.700 --> 45:48.400 align:start FOODS WOULD CONTRADICT OTHER 45:48.400 --> 45:50.300 align:start DIETS. 45:50.300 --> 45:52.500 align:start I'VE SPOKEN WITH A DOCTOR OUT OF 45:52.500 --> 45:56.600 align:start LOUISIANA WHO AGREED TO DO A 45:56.600 --> 45:57.600 align:start GASTRIC SLEEVE. 45:57.600 --> 46:00.200 align:start HE DID THE GASTRIC SLEEVE. 46:00.200 --> 46:03.100 align:start KEPT EXTRA WATCH ON ME, HE 46:03.100 --> 46:06.900 align:start PERSONALLY CALLED EVERY MONTH. 46:06.900 --> 46:10.100 align:start THE NUTRITIONIST WORKED WITH ME 46:10.100 --> 46:11.300 align:start ON THE SHAKES. 46:11.300 --> 46:14.400 align:start AND I ENDED UP GOING FROM 289 46:14.400 --> 46:16.300 align:start POUNDS DOWN TO 167 POUNDS. 46:16.300 --> 46:20.200 align:start AND I RECEIVED A KIDNEY/PANCREAS 46:20.200 --> 46:22.700 align:start TRANSPLANT DECEMBER OF 2015. 46:22.700 --> 46:24.400 align:start >> YOU LOOK GREAT, DAVID. 46:24.400 --> 46:25.100 align:start >> THANK YOU. 46:25.100 --> 46:26.500 align:start I FEEL GREAT. 46:26.500 --> 46:29.700 align:start THE ROAD TO RECOVERY'S HARD, BUT 46:29.700 --> 46:32.500 align:start I FIND THAT EATING RIGHT, HAVING 46:32.500 --> 46:37.200 align:start TO LIVE FOR MY SISTER TO WATCH 46:37.200 --> 46:41.100 align:start HER GRADUATE COLLEGE, MY WIFE, I 46:41.100 --> 46:42.100 align:start HAD A SERVICE DOG. 46:42.100 --> 46:45.700 align:start >> WHO DO YOU HAVE WITH YOU 46:45.700 --> 46:46.100 align:start THERE? 46:46.100 --> 46:48.700 align:start >> THIS IS [INDISCERNIBLE] 46:48.700 --> 46:51.900 align:start >> DR. BELLANGER, HOW COMMON IS 46:51.900 --> 46:52.800 align:start THIS STORY? 46:52.800 --> 46:55.100 align:start HOW COMMON IS THIS SCENARIO AND 46:55.100 --> 46:57.100 align:start HOW SAFE ARE THESE PROCEDURES 46:57.100 --> 46:58.900 align:start AND MAYBE SHARE THE DIFFERENT 46:58.900 --> 47:01.500 align:start TYPES OF PROCEDURES FOR WEIGHT 47:01.500 --> 47:01.900 align:start LOSS? 47:01.900 --> 47:04.500 align:start >> THE SURGICAL PROCEDURES ARE 47:04.500 --> 47:07.900 align:start THE GASTRIC BANDING, WHICH HAS 47:07.900 --> 47:11.800 align:start FALLEN OUT OF FAVOR. 47:11.800 --> 47:14.200 align:start THERE IS GASTRIC BYPASS AND THE 47:14.200 --> 47:14.100 align:start VERTICAL SLEEVE. 47:14.100 --> 47:17.800 align:start IN DAVID'S SITUATION, THE 47:17.800 --> 47:19.200 align:start GASTRIC SLEEVE IS PROBABLY THE 47:19.200 --> 47:22.700 align:start BEST BECAUSE THE MEDICATIONS YOU 47:22.700 --> 47:24.500 align:start NEED FOR A TRANSPLANT PATIENT 47:24.500 --> 47:26.400 align:start HAVE TO BE MONITORED CLOSELY AND 47:26.400 --> 47:28.300 align:start THE VERTICAL SLEEVE IS THE 47:28.300 --> 47:30.200 align:start PROCEDURE OF CHOICE FOR THAT 47:30.200 --> 47:33.200 align:start BECAUSE IT DOESN'T ALTER THE 47:33.200 --> 47:35.600 align:start ABSORPTION OF MEDICATIONS. 47:35.600 --> 47:37.600 align:start >> THIS IS NOT UNUSUAL, HIS 47:37.600 --> 47:38.400 align:start SITUATION AT ALL? 47:38.400 --> 47:41.100 align:start >> NO, IT'S NOT. 47:41.100 --> 47:41.500 align:start >> WOW. 47:41.500 --> 47:43.900 align:start >> DR. CHAMPAGNE? 47:43.900 --> 47:44.700 align:start >> YES. 47:44.700 --> 47:48.300 align:start >> A QUESTION, MY MAIN PROBLEM, 47:48.300 --> 47:53.100 align:start I TRIED THE RENAL DIET, DIABETIC 47:53.100 --> 47:55.200 align:start DIET, DOESN'T NECESSARILY GO 47:55.200 --> 47:57.800 align:start TOGETHER. 47:57.800 --> 48:00.100 align:start I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH PENNINGTON 48:00.100 --> 48:02.500 align:start BECAUSE I'M FROM TEXAS. 48:02.500 --> 48:04.900 align:start DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING I CAN LOOK 48:04.900 --> 48:08.100 align:start AT OR SOMETHING SOMEONE COULD 48:08.100 --> 48:11.100 align:start TRY BEFORE HAVING TO UNDERGO A 48:11.100 --> 48:11.700 align:start GASTRIC SLEEVE? 48:11.700 --> 48:15.500 align:start >> IN TERMS OF YOUR PARTICULAR 48:15.500 --> 48:17.200 align:start SITUATION, I THINK THAT RELYING 48:17.200 --> 48:19.800 align:start ON A DIETICIAN WHO CAN COMPARE 48:19.800 --> 48:23.400 align:start THE TWO DIETS AND THEY YOU NEED 48:23.400 --> 48:27.400 align:start TO BE ON, LIKE THE DIABETIC DIET 48:27.400 --> 48:29.900 align:start VERSUS A RENAL DIET, COULD GIVE 48:29.900 --> 48:33.100 align:start YOU A LOT OF ADVICE IN TERMS OF, 48:33.100 --> 48:35.400 align:start YOU KNOW, WHAT FOODS WOULD BE 48:35.400 --> 48:39.900 align:start BEST FOR YOU TO CONSUME VERSES 48:39.900 --> 48:41.700 align:start WHICH ONES TO AVOID. 48:41.700 --> 48:44.400 align:start IT'S TOO BAD THAT WE DON'T HAVE 48:44.400 --> 48:48.600 align:start THE RESOURCES TO CURE EVERYONE. 48:48.600 --> 48:52.100 align:start A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST A 48:52.100 --> 48:54.700 align:start LITTLE BIT OVERWEIGHT ARE 48:54.700 --> 48:57.100 align:start WANTING TO MAKE CHANGES AND COME 48:57.100 --> 49:01.800 align:start TO SEE US, BUT SOMETIMES THEY 49:01.800 --> 49:03.100 align:start DON'T QUALIFY BECAUSE THEY'RE 49:03.100 --> 49:04.900 align:start NOT FAT ENOUGH. 49:04.900 --> 49:09.200 align:start I THINK THAT'S SORT OF DIFFICULT 49:09.200 --> 49:12.100 align:start BECAUSE SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE 49:12.100 --> 49:13.300 align:start OVERWEIGHT AND THEY WANT TO LOSE 49:13.300 --> 49:15.500 align:start A LITTLE BIT OF WEIGHT TO MAKE A 49:15.500 --> 49:16.900 align:start DIFFERENCE AND GET TO A POINT 49:16.900 --> 49:19.800 align:start WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE TO WORRY 49:19.800 --> 49:21.600 align:start ABOUT BECOMING OBESE. 49:21.600 --> 49:23.900 align:start >> ARE THERE ANY ONGOING 49:23.900 --> 49:24.300 align:start STUDIES? 49:24.300 --> 49:27.400 align:start >> WE HAVE DONE STUDIES ON 49:27.400 --> 49:30.100 align:start WEIGHT WATCHERS AND THE NEW 49:30.100 --> 49:31.700 align:start PROGRAM IS CHANGING AS A RESULT 49:31.700 --> 49:34.800 align:start OF A STUDY THAT WAS JOINT 49:34.800 --> 49:37.600 align:start BETWEEN PENNINGTON AND SEVERAL 49:37.600 --> 49:39.400 align:start OTHER -- FOUR OR FIVE OTHER 49:39.400 --> 49:41.600 align:start CENTERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. 49:41.600 --> 49:43.200 align:start PENNINGTON IS, YOU KNOW, TRYING 49:43.200 --> 49:45.400 align:start TO BE ON THE FOREFRONT OF 49:45.400 --> 49:47.300 align:start HELPING TO DECIDE WHAT MIGHT BE 49:47.300 --> 49:50.700 align:start BEST FOR PEOPLE IN TERMS OF A 49:50.700 --> 49:51.400 align:start DIET. 49:51.400 --> 49:53.500 align:start WE ACTUALLY DID A BARIATRIC 49:53.500 --> 49:55.400 align:start STUDY CALLED HEADS UP. 49:55.400 --> 49:59.100 align:start DR. BELLANGER, HERE, WAS ONE OF 49:59.100 --> 50:01.700 align:start OUR WEIGHT-LOSS SURGEONS. 50:01.700 --> 50:04.200 align:start AND, IT WAS -- IT WAS REALLY A 50:04.200 --> 50:05.900 align:start TERRIFIC STUDY AND I WISH IT 50:05.900 --> 50:08.200 align:start COULD HAVE GONE ON FOR MORE 50:08.200 --> 50:09.600 align:start YEARS, BUT WE ARE ABLE TO FOLLOW 50:09.600 --> 50:12.900 align:start SOME OF THE PEOPLE UP TO FIVE 50:12.900 --> 50:13.200 align:start YEARS. 50:13.200 --> 50:16.400 align:start AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR FUNDING TO 50:16.400 --> 50:17.500 align:start ACTUALLY TRY TO CONTINUE 50:17.500 --> 50:21.700 align:start FOLLOWING THOSE PEOPLE, WHO HAD 50:21.700 --> 50:25.200 align:start BARIATRIC SURGERY. 50:25.200 --> 50:28.300 align:start >> RUDY, REAL QUICK. 50:28.300 --> 50:33.500 align:start AN OBESE CHILD MAKES AN OBESE 50:33.500 --> 50:33.900 align:start ADULT. 50:33.900 --> 50:34.700 align:start HOW TRUE IS THAT? 50:34.700 --> 50:37.500 align:start >> PARENTS HAVE TO BE REALLY 50:37.500 --> 50:39.200 align:start COGNIZANT OF THE FACT THAT 50:39.200 --> 50:40.400 align:start THERE'S A TIME WHEN YOU HAVE TO 50:40.400 --> 50:41.100 align:start SAY NO. 50:41.100 --> 50:45.100 align:start NO TO CERTAIN FOODS AND SUGARY 50:45.100 --> 50:47.300 align:start CANDY AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 50:47.300 --> 50:48.500 align:start >> SPRINGTIME. 50:48.500 --> 50:49.300 align:start >> THAT'S TRUE. 50:49.300 --> 50:51.200 align:start THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH 50:51.200 --> 50:53.400 align:start CHILDHOOD OBESITY, NOT ONLY YOU 50:53.400 --> 50:55.300 align:start HAVE TO HAVE A GOOD PHYSICAL 50:55.300 --> 50:57.300 align:start EDUCATION IN SCHOOL, BUT AT THE 50:57.300 --> 50:57.700 align:start SCHOOL. 50:57.700 --> 51:00.500 align:start I'VE ALWAYS NOTICED THAT THERE 51:00.500 --> 51:03.100 align:start ARE KIDS WHO TRY OUT FOR 51:03.100 --> 51:05.600 align:start BASKETBALL TEAMS OR FOOTBALL 51:05.600 --> 51:06.200 align:start TEAMS. 51:06.200 --> 51:08.700 align:start THE KIDS WHO DON'T MAKE IT, WHAT 51:08.700 --> 51:09.800 align:start HAPPENS TO THEM? 51:09.800 --> 51:12.300 align:start WE HAVE SO MANY SPECIALIZED 51:12.300 --> 51:12.900 align:start SPORTS. 51:12.900 --> 51:14.800 align:start SPORTS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE, LIKE 51:14.800 --> 51:20.400 align:start SOCCER COSTS HUNDREDS OF 51:20.400 --> 51:20.800 align:start DOLLARS. 51:20.800 --> 51:22.100 align:start BASEBALL COSTS HUNDREDS OF 51:22.100 --> 51:24.400 align:start DOLLARS. 51:24.400 --> 51:25.100 align:start IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES, THEY 51:25.100 --> 51:27.600 align:start CAN'T AFFORD IT. 51:27.600 --> 51:32.100 align:start WE CREATE SPORTS AND 51:32.100 --> 51:33.100 align:start TOURNAMENTS. 51:33.100 --> 51:35.500 align:start IF NOT, THEY WILL WANDER THE 51:35.500 --> 51:36.900 align:start STREETS AND EAT THE WRONG 51:36.900 --> 51:37.200 align:start THINGS. 51:37.200 --> 51:38.700 align:start TO KEEP OUR KIDS BUSY AND TO 51:38.700 --> 51:42.300 align:start FIND THOSE PROGRAMS THAT WILL 51:42.300 --> 51:44.100 align:start ALLOW OUR KIDS TO HAVE SOMETHING 51:44.100 --> 51:46.100 align:start TO DO AND IN THE SUMMERTIME, WE 51:46.100 --> 51:49.500 align:start HAVE A LOT OF PROGRAMS WITH THE 51:49.500 --> 51:51.700 align:start GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL ON FITNESS 51:51.700 --> 51:53.100 align:start WHERE WE ADDRESS ALL THOSE 51:53.100 --> 51:54.100 align:start THINGS AT THE SAME TIME. 51:54.100 --> 51:56.500 align:start >> I TELL YOU GUYS, I WORKED 51:56.500 --> 52:03.400 align:start WITH RUDY OVER SEVEN YEARS AND 52:03.400 --> 52:04.600 align:start HE'S DONE GREAT. 52:04.600 --> 52:08.200 align:start ANY CLOSING WORDS FROM OUR 52:08.200 --> 52:08.600 align:start PANELISTS? 52:08.600 --> 52:10.200 align:start >> I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE 52:10.200 --> 52:11.400 align:start EVERYONE WITH A SIMPLE CENTRAL 52:11.400 --> 52:14.300 align:start SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THAT IS, IF 52:14.300 --> 52:19.200 align:start A KID GROWS KALE, A KID WILL EAT 52:19.200 --> 52:19.500 align:start KALE. 52:19.500 --> 52:20.700 align:start >> MR. MACKLIN? 52:20.700 --> 52:22.600 align:start >> I WOULD LIKE TO SAY LET'S TRY 52:22.600 --> 52:24.300 align:start TO -- WHEN YOU START ANY TYPE OF 52:24.300 --> 52:26.500 align:start NEW DIET OR EXERCISE PROGRAM, DO 52:26.500 --> 52:28.100 align:start NOT DO IT BY YOURSELF. 52:28.100 --> 52:31.100 align:start ALWAYS HAVE A PARTNER OR 52:31.100 --> 52:31.500 align:start PARTNERS. 52:31.500 --> 52:32.100 align:start THE MORE YOU HAVE -- THERE ARE 52:32.100 --> 52:34.700 align:start GOING TO BE SOME DAYS YOU WON'T 52:34.700 --> 52:37.100 align:start FEEL LIKE WORKING OUT OR EATING 52:37.100 --> 52:37.400 align:start RIGHT. 52:37.400 --> 52:39.100 align:start WE FALL OFF THE WAGON. 52:39.100 --> 52:41.400 align:start WHEN YOU HAVE PARTNERS, YOUR 52:41.400 --> 52:44.100 align:start DIET AND YOUR EXERCISE ARE GOING 52:44.100 --> 52:46.900 align:start TO LAST A LONG TIME. 52:46.900 --> 52:49.100 align:start >> SOCIAL SUPPORT IS VERY 52:49.100 --> 52:51.400 align:start IMPORTANT IN ALL OF OUR 52:51.400 --> 52:52.100 align:start WEIGHT-LOSS STUDIES. 52:52.100 --> 52:55.100 align:start WE ARE DOING WORK WITH CHILD 52:55.100 --> 52:57.100 align:start NUTRITION IN THE STATE, BUT I 52:57.100 --> 52:59.800 align:start WANT TO STRESS THAT A CHILD IS 52:59.800 --> 53:01.800 align:start AT SCHOOL FOR A SHORT PART OF 53:01.800 --> 53:03.100 align:start THE DAY, SO, THE EXAMPLE SET BY 53:03.100 --> 53:09.300 align:start THE PARENTS IS KEY TO GOOD CHILD 53:09.300 --> 53:11.300 align:start NUTRITION H 53:11.300 --> 53:12.200 align:start NUTRITION HABITS. 53:12.200 --> 53:13.900 align:start AT PENNINGTON, WE HAVE THE 53:13.900 --> 53:17.500 align:start FARMERS MARKET ON THURSDAY. 53:17.500 --> 53:20.300 align:start 8:00 TO 12:00. 53:20.300 --> 53:21.600 align:start >> DR. BELLANGER? 53:21.600 --> 53:23.400 align:start >> WHEN YOU HAVE A BIG GOAL OF 53:23.400 --> 53:25.900 align:start LOSING WEIGHT, IT'S BEST TO 53:25.900 --> 53:28.100 align:start ACHIEVE IT BY SETTING MULTIPLE 53:28.100 --> 53:31.300 align:start SMALL GOALS SO YOU CAN ACHIEVE 53:31.300 --> 53:33.200 align:start THOSE GOALS MUCH EASIER. 53:33.200 --> 53:34.400 align:start >> DO YOU RECOMMEND 53:34.400 --> 53:34.900 align:start [INDISCERNIBLE] 53:34.900 --> 53:38.500 align:start >> YES, DEFINITELY. 53:38.500 --> 53:40.500 align:start >> KNOW YOUR DOCTOR, KNOW YOUR 53:40.500 --> 53:43.100 align:start NUMBERS, KNOW YOUR FAMILY 53:43.100 --> 53:45.800 align:start HISTORY, EAT HEALTHY AND 53:45.800 --> 53:46.100 align:start EXERCISE. 53:46.100 --> 53:47.700 align:start MORE IMPORTANTLY, YOU HAVE TO GO 53:47.700 --> 53:49.100 align:start TO THE DOCTOR. 53:49.100 --> 53:51.300 align:start WE CAN'T DIAGNOSE THE PROBLEM IF 53:51.300 --> 53:54.300 align:start YOU DON'T GO TO THE DOCTOR. 53:54.300 --> 54:00.400 align:start MANY PATIENTS COME INTO WITH MY 54:00.400 --> 54:02.400 align:start BLOOD PRESSURE AND DIABETES. 54:02.400 --> 54:04.100 align:start DAVID, YOU'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH 54:04.100 --> 54:05.900 align:start THAT AND YOU'VE SEEN WHAT 54:05.900 --> 54:06.200 align:start HAPPENS. 54:06.200 --> 54:07.600 align:start I WANT TO THANK THE PANELISTS 54:07.600 --> 54:08.500 align:start AND THE AUDIENCE. 54:08.500 --> 54:10.400 align:start YOU GUYS WERE AWESOME. 54:10.400 --> 54:13.600 align:start THIS WAS A GREAT SESSION. 54:13.600 --> 54:14.900 align:start HOPEFULLY WE CAN DO SOMETHING 54:14.900 --> 54:16.100 align:start LIKE THIS AGAIN. 54:16.100 --> 54:18.500 align:start WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME FOR OUR 54:18.500 --> 54:22.100 align:start QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SEGMENT. 54:22.100 --> 54:26.800 align:start WE'D LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE FOR 54:26.800 --> 54:28.800 align:start FOR THEIR INSIGHT. 54:28.800 --> 54:31.100 align:start WHEN WE COME BACK, WE'LL HAVE A 54:31.100 --> 54:41.500 align:start FEW CLOSING MOMENTS. 54:41.500 --> 54:45.100 align:start >> I'M INSPIRED, I'M GOING TO GO 54:45.100 --> 54:50.500 align:start OUT AND EAT A HEALTHIER DIET. 54:50.500 --> 54:53.200 align:start I DON'T PROMISE TO COOK MORE. 54:53.200 --> 54:54.900 align:start MY HUSBAND'S A GOOD COOK. 54:54.900 --> 54:56.100 align:start IT IS HARD IN LOUISIANA. 54:56.100 --> 54:57.600 align:start WE HAVE SUCH TASTY FOOD. 54:57.600 --> 55:01.600 align:start AND AS YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, ALL 55:01.600 --> 55:04.900 align:start OF OUR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, TO 55:04.900 --> 55:06.500 align:start TAILGATING AND PARTIES. 55:06.500 --> 55:07.700 align:start >> WE'RE EATING. 55:07.700 --> 55:09.700 align:start >> CONSQUENTSLY, WE HAVE TO KEEP 55:09.700 --> 55:11.700 align:start THAT IN MIND AND PORTION CONTROL 55:11.700 --> 55:16.300 align:start IS PERHAPS ONE OF THE BIGGEST 55:16.300 --> 55:16.600 align:start THINGS. 55:16.600 --> 55:18.100 align:start >> WE HAVE TO LIMIT THOSE THINGS 55:18.100 --> 55:20.100 align:start AND MAKE HEALTHIER CHOICES. 55:20.100 --> 55:21.400 align:start FRESH IS BEST. 55:21.400 --> 55:24.600 align:start GO TO THOSE FRESH MARKETS ON THE 55:24.600 --> 55:24.900 align:start WEEKENDS. 55:24.900 --> 55:27.700 align:start >> I BUY THEM, I DON'T 55:27.700 --> 55:28.600 align:start NECESSARILY COOK THEM. 55:28.600 --> 55:31.700 align:start >>> THAT'S ALL THE TIME WE HAVE 55:31.700 --> 55:33.400 align:start FOR THIS EDITION OF "LOUISIANA 55:33.400 --> 55:33.900 align:start PUBLIC SQUARE." 55:33.900 --> 55:35.900 align:start WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO VISIT OUR 55:35.900 --> 55:37.300 align:start WEBSITE, LPB.ORG/PUBLICSQUARE. 55:37.300 --> 55:38.900 align:start COMMENT ON TONIGHT'S SHOW AND WE 55:38.900 --> 55:40.100 align:start WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM ALL OF 55:40.100 --> 55:41.300 align:start YOU. 55:41.300 --> 55:42.100 align:start >>> NEXT MONTH'S PROGRAM TAKES A 55:42.100 --> 55:44.600 align:start LOOK BACK AT THE POLICE AND 55:44.600 --> 55:46.600 align:start CIVILIAN SHOOTINGS ING THE 55:46.600 --> 55:47.700 align:start CAPITOL CITY. 55:47.700 --> 55:50.100 align:start WHAT CAN BE DONE TO IMPROVE 55:50.100 --> 55:53.100 align:start TRUST AMONG THE POLICE AND 55:53.100 --> 55:54.300 align:start PUBLIC? 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