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Al Roker hosts childhood obesity special tonight

Al RokerTonight at 9:00 p.m. on the Food Network, Al Roker will host Childhood Obesity: Danger Zone, a special that delves into the obesity epidemic that now affects more than 12 million children in America. The special will focus mostly on children, including: a teenager who weighs 500 pounds; the public policy initiative put in place by Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to help overweight children; and a doctor who teaches kids how to shop for healthy food.

Roker himself lost his weight through gastric bypass surgery, which, if I wanted to be a jerk I'd say makes him somewhat of a hypocrite, but ultimately he's telling kids what they need to hear, and that's a good thing.

My unsolicited advice to anyone wanting to lose weight is to throw out terms like "diet" and "exercise," as they tend to be synonymous with "eating bland food" and "having no fun whatsoever." Instead, simply change your everyday eating habits and try to find physical activities you enjoy, like bike riding, in-line skating and seducing lonely housewives. Trust me, once you've run down your tenth or eleventh fire escape you'll really start to feel that fat burning away. You can also combine all three into what I like to call the "infidelity triathlon." I'm trying to make it an Olympic event.

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