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"Weekend House Call": Meet The Participants Of "The New You"

Aired January 11, 2004 - 8:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


DR. SANJAY GUPTA, HOST: Good morning and welcome to WEEKEND HOUSE CALL. Well, it's a new year and many of us are starting on some new healthy habits, so we set out to find five people who are doing just that, but they also had to be willing to let us follow them along with cameras for eight weeks as they try to improve their health. So, in this special edition of WEEKEND HOUSE CALL we're going to introduce you to five of our participants and fill you in on what kinds of advice they are getting from all the experts.
First up, David Peck, he's 43 years old, a father of two and a pretty typical business traveler. He's on the road all the time eating on a run. On a recent business trip David decided to write us for help. Here's his story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA (voice-over): Meet David Peck.

DAVID PECK, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: Yeah, it's season available.

GUPTA: At work, David Peck is seriously stressed. He's a head of sales at a small startup company in Silicon Valley.

PECK: If I get really stressed out, I'll go for comfort food. Fill the belly, feel good.

Would later on this afternoon be better?

GUPTA: Cold calls and corporate lunches, those are the staple of his day. Frequent flying, fatty road food, overeating. All of it makes him feel like he's checking in extra baggage. So, three times a week he heads to the gym. But, what truly motivates him to improve his health is something that happened more than 30 years ago. His father died of heart disease. David was nine, then. Today all he has is a few pictures.

PECK: I wish I would have known him. At least I --you know, I know I have memories of him, which is good.

GUPTA: He also has the fear the history will repeat itself.

PECK: It hurts. I don't want to do it to my kids.

GUPTA: David's family tree sags with even more heartache. His brother recently had a triple bypass. With his family history in mind, David decided to make a "New You Resolution" and visit his cardiologist for a stress test and echocardiogram. The results were as he feared.

DR. ALAN YEUNG, CHIEF OF CARDIOLOGY, STANFORD U: Actually on the stress test -- you know, you exercise for quite a bit of time and what happened that the back part of the heart slows down, so it suggests there's a blockage in the artery.

GUPTA (on camera): So, he just happened to have this stress test today, if he hadn't had it done what would have been his most likely scenario?

YEUNG: Yeah, it's -- we don't know for sure, but there's a good chance -- you know, in the future he might have a heart attack.

PECK: Well, I feel very fortunate that I was selected.

GUPTA: Yeah, I mean, that -- so it sort of inspired you a bit to get this done, hey? The...

PECK: Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean I know the path I would have taken if I didn't sign up.

GUPTA (voice-over): Signing up, may have spared his family a life without him.

AMY PECK, WIFE: Gosh, my heart would be ripped out of my chest. I would lose my best friend and just what the kids would lose would be so hard, and you never want that to happen.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: All right, David, we have a whole team assembled to help you out. Here's what a dietitian, fitness expert, and cardiologist prescribed for you in your "New You Resolution".

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PECK: It's like if they tell me that its -- you know, low fat, low calorie then I'm like --"OK, double it up."

GUPTA: The first item on your prescription, portion control. We'll hook you up with a nutritionist from the American Heart Association who will counsel you and help improve your food choices on the road.

PECK: I've made the mistake were I'll slam down a big burrito before I hop on a plane.

GUPTA: You're exercising three times a week. Great. We've enlisted a trainer to bolster the cardio and fill in the gaps in your workout. Help you lose weight, get you back to your old stealth self. You'll also craft workouts you can use on the plain, in your hotel room, and yoga, aroma therapy to calm those nerves. And you'll be following your doctor's orders to get an angiogram to take a closer look at your heart.

(END VIDEO CLIP) GUPTA: And, David's angiogram is scheduled this coming week. We'll make sure to keep you posted on that, as well.

Well, heart disease is the single largest killer of Americans every year. This year alone, for example, 700,000 people will have heart attacks, and you can do something to battle those odds. Start checking your numbers even if you are 20 years old. Find out what your blood pressure, your cholesterol levels are. You can do that by seeing your doctor. Also, stop smoking. Get outside, get some exercise, just 30 minutes a day can help prevent heart disease.

We're getting flooded with lots of e-mails in support of our participants, plus some pleas for advice. For example: April from Virginia has some of the same problems as David. She says, "I'm a flight attendant and find it extremely hard to eat healthy on the go. I am often reduced to airplane food which is very unhealthy, or airport food which is usually fast foods. If you have a solution on how to eat healthy with a hectic schedule I'd love to hear it."

Well April, the American Dietetic Association has some tips for all of you folks, just like you, that are on the go. First, try ordering kid size portions to save calories and swap the fries, for example, for a side salad. If that doesn't work, split your order with a friend so you can share the calories. For something lighter, swing by and get a fruit or a yogurt smoothie. Finally, if you're grabbing a bagel or a muffin, be size wise. A jumbo muffin has twice the fat grams and calories as the regular size.

Well, stay tuned to meet another of the fabulous five. She is a 20-something year old with her own family history of heart disease and diabetes to content with. Can she begin her new near and new resolution by stopping all that eating out and starting working out? Stay with us.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GUPTA: Well welcome back, everyone. Kim Everett is a busy 24- year-old Atlantaen. She juggles two jobs, too much work, and yields too little time for working out. And she says she hardly has the time to eat a healthy meal, but Kim knows she has to make healthy changes or she's going to end up following in her family's footstep, diabetes and heart problems.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: Meet Kimberly Everett.

KIMBERLY EVERETT, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: I'm going to be so sexy, you guys are not going know me.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Kim's not going to do the diet.

EVERETT: Yes, I am.

GUPTA: She wakes up at 6:00. Sits in Atlanta's traffic and makes it to her full-time P.R. job at 7:30, and three nights a week she works at her favorite store.

EVERETT: Would you like some comforting tea tonight?

GUPTA: She signed up for the "New You Resolution" because she knew she needed to lose weight.

EVERETT: And I was like, "Wow, -- you know, ten pounds is a lot." So I totally killed the breakfast, because I know that one thing I'd have to change totally.

GUPTA: And, lunch.

EVERETT: Cheese sticks.

GUPTA: And, dinner.

EVERETT: I guess I'll have -- yeah, I'll have daiquiri, I'm not really hungry tonight.

GUPTA: Her sister, Tory, roommate and best friend worries about Kim's eating habits.

TORY EVERETT, SISTER: After 24 years of eating unhealthy, you really don't know how to eat -- I mean you don't, you don't know how to eat healthy. Every night we had fried foods for dinner. My dad tried to eat healthier after his heart attack.

EVERETT: He tried.

T. EVERETT: It would be like baked fish and a beer or something.

EVERETT: Yeah.

GUPTA: So, we checked in with internist Dr. Richard Wright for a physical, to get her started.

DR. RICHARD WRIGHT: So, being that your parents both had diabetes and high blood pressure, that's going to put you at risk for getting high blood pressure and diabetes.

GUPTA: Kim may not be able to change her family history, but the American Diabetes Association says she can reduce her risk for diabetes by getting her weight under control through diet and exercise.

T. EVERETT: Show some of your crunches.

EVERETT: We're not going to be exercising today.

T. EVERETT: Kim goes "oooh!"

(LAUGHTER)

GUPTA: Can she handle the challenge?

EVERETT: I hope to look like Tina Turner with a great body when I'm 60. So, if I can start off now at 24, then I'll be happy.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: To help Kim become a little more Tina-like we've enlisted a dietitian and a physiologist. Here's a prescription for some healthy changes.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

T. EVERETT: Yeah, she works a lot but a lot of it is laziness, too, because Kim likes to lay down and relax, a lot.

(LAUGHTER)

GUPTA: Get ready, Kim, we've the formula for a new you. Here's the dietitian's prescription: Routine, routine, routine. Get on an eating schedule, no more skipping meals. Fight family history with high fiber and calorie control, choose wisely during a fast food frenzy. Pack power lunches. And, the trainer says: Variety, variety, variety. Circuit cardio six days a week, weight training three days a week, squeeze in a stress release class, measure your body fat percentage at mid program and week eight.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GUPTA: Exercising and watching what you eat, sounds easy enough, but as we all know it's tough to do sometimes. Well, people are sympathizing already with Kim and offering some advice. Barry from Texas had this to say: "I would have to say that the one biggest thing that I did to help me out, when losing weight and also keeping it off, is an easy thing. Whenever you go out to eat, ask your wait tower bring you a to-go box along with your meal. Before you take one bite, remove half of your meal into your to-go box and set it next to your purse. Its going to help you from overeating, because we all know that most restaurants serve way more food than we should eat at any one sitting."

Some pretty interesting advice there, Barry.

Since Kim has a family history of diabetes, it's especially important for her to keep her weight down. According to the American Diabetes Association, nearly 90 percent of people with newly diagnosed type two diabetes are overweight. To find your odds of developing diabetes try visiting the Web site at www.diabetes.org. There you're going to find a diabetes risk test where you can find out if you're at risk of becoming a diabetic.

But, don't go to that Web site just yet, because up next, we're going to be talking about breaking another deadly habit. We'll meet a 30-something who wants to end her pack-a-day habit without packing on the pounds. Stay with us.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GUPTA: Welcome back to WEEKEND HOUSE CALL. Well, if you resolved to get healthier in 2004, this is the show to watch. We have selected five people with different kinds of health issues to follow for eight weeks as they try to change some of their unhealthy habits. You've already heard about David and Kim and their troubling family histories, now meet Kathryn Burkholder. She's 31 years old, she's from Atlanta, has smoked a pack a day for more than half her life. Now Kathryn's resolved to kick the habit, but she knows it's not going to be easy.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: Meet Kathryn Burkholder.

KATHRYN BURKHOLDER, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: Last week, if I got one time -- "I didn't know you smoked," I got it like 37 times. Because everybody was like, "why you are in a healthy makeover, you always look so healthy."

GUPTA: She is a busy, single, young professional, with lots friends, a pet bunny named Joe, and a deadly habit.

BURKHOLDER: In an hour I could probably smoke ten cigarettes, if I just sat here and did it. And it wouldn't be hard for me to do that.

GUPTA: She puffs up to a pack or more a day.

BURKHOLDER: So, I smoke pretty much all the time in the car.

GUPTA: Smoke breaks at work.

BURKHOLDER: Doesn't it look like fun? Don't you want to do it, too?

GUPTA: And, outside in the evenings.

BURKHOLDER: I just never have smoked in my house.

GUPTA: But, now she wants to quit the addiction for good.

BURKHOLDER: I'm not nervous about quitting. I'm nervous about staying quit.

GUPTA: She says she quit 12 times already with no luck.

BURKHOLDER: I've tried cold turkey, I've tried medication, I've tried the patch.

GUPTA (on camera): You've tried it all.

BURKHOLDER: Pretty much.

GUPTA (voice-over): A big fear, packing on the pounds.

BURKHOLDER: Well, and every time I quit more than a month I've always gained at least ten pounds and it's kind of horrifying to gain that much weight that fast.

GUPTA: But, there's also concern about her health as the years add up.

BURKHOLDER: There's not that many cases of people who, you know, have lung cancer at 31, but at 40 there are or even 35. So I think that's why it's important I quit now.

GUPTA: Her mom has begged her to quit for years, but says Kathryn's just been too stubborn until now.

MRS. BURKHOLDER, KATHRYN'S MOTHER: You don't want her taking chances especially as you get older. If she had any sense, she never would have never lit the first cigarette.

GUPTA: Despite a bad family history of heart disease, diabetes, and breast cancer, Kathryn passed her physical with flying colors. But her doctor, Douglas Radnan, still urges her to quit.

DR. DOUGLAS RADNAN: If you can quit now, later on in life, and most of the negative effects will have reversed themselves and it's certainly the biggest gift you can give to yourself.

GUPTA (on camera): Where do you see yourself two months from now? What do you want to be doing?

BURKHOLDER: Two months from now I would like to be able to sit for a couple of hours and not think, "I need a cigarette."

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: All right. In order to help Kathryn along with her goal we've talked to her doctor and top experts around the country on smoking cessation. Here's their prescription for quitting long term.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BURKHOLDER: It would be easier for me to get a Ph.D than quitting smoking.

GUPTA: Get ready Kathryn, we've a formula for a new you. Your doctor says combining treatments is the secret to success. He prescribed Zyban for you. Take that along with nicotine replacement, like the patch, gum, or lozenges. Your doctor also prescribed counseling, because constant support is the last key to success. Through a program called Intervent, you'll get one on one counseling available 24 hours a day for a whole year. You'll also get a personal nutrition and exercise plan. And last, a lung and heart scan to see if smoking has done any damage so far.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GUPTA: Well, we'll bring you the results of those scans sometimes during the next eight weeks, so make sure to tune in for that, as well. As for Kathryn's plan, the experts say combination is the key to quitting. A new study out just this week may help you make the decision and help you stay with it. The study out of the journal of the National Cancer Institute that finds that women who smoke are 30 percent more likely to develop breast cancer. This is the first study to say for certain that there is a link, and if it hold up under scrutiny, smoking would be the only controllable cause of breast cancer. And, in case that's not enough, over 68,000 people are expected to die from lung cancer this year. We hope lots of people will be able to follow along with Kathryn and kick that smoking habit for good.

Coming up next, meet the new parents with a brand new baby girl just six months old. Their lives have been turned upside down about this little girl. Forget about exercise and healthy eating, they can't even get sleep. I know many of you sympathize, so stay tuned for ways to get healthy baby-style. But first, checkout this week's edition of "You're your Health."

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANNOUNCER: Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Mammography is the best available method to detect breast cancer in its earliest, most treatable stage. Women, age 40 years and older should have routine mammograms every one to two years, and all women should conduct monthly self-exams. You can learn more about the self-exams by asking your doctor, or on Web sites devoted to breast cancer detection and care.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GUPTA: Welcome back. Well from getting heart healthy to stopping smoking we seem to have covered it all with our participants, but there is one category left that still deserves some attention. You parents and the struggle with healthy living. So, we found a young couple dealing with new parenthood, here in New York City, they're the Kirkbrides, as many new parents find out, time becomes scarce when a baby arrives. Lack of sleep and energy is something many other parents have coped with. But Pam and Michael stood out because of their commitment to meet their "New You Resolution" together. Here is Team Kirkbride.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: Meet Pam and Michael Kirkbride.

PAM KIRKBRIDE, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: Are you swimming?

GUPTA: Almost six months ago, the birth of Olivia changed everything.

P. KIRKBRIDE: It's not about you anymore. It's about the baby and it's about Olivia's well-being.

MICHAEL KIRKBRIDE, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: I think that the hardest thing -- new parenting, is that it's true anywhere...

P. KIRKBRIDE: Yeah.

M. KIRKBRIDE: It's sleep. P. KIRKBRIDE: Yeah.

M. KIRKBRIDE: It's just so hard finding time to sleep.

GUPTA: Simply finding time is a challenge for these New York City 30-somethings. Michael, in addition to being a new father, works two consulting jobs and is getting his MBA.

M. KIRKBRIDE: Between work and -- I'm running a startup, basically, and schools which take as lot of time, no matter what, it's hard to find time to do anything.

GUPTA: Pam recently returned to work in marketing at Liz Claiborne.

P. KIRKBRIDE: I'm pretty much on the go and I hide that I'm tired all the time.

GUPTA: The Kirkbirdes grew up together, married for three and a half years, they were an active couple. The gym together, sports on the weekends, until now. When the schedules crunched, the first thing to go was exercise and the next thing to come was weight.

Over the past year Pam and Michael have gained more than 40 pounds together.

M. KIRKBRIDE: I'm sitting at a meeting with a guy I worked for about five or six years and he looked at me, in the middle of the meeting, and was like, "Michael, you're getting fat." I was like, "What?"

GUPTA: Motherhood brings new changes including an increased ring size and dress size.

P. KIRKBRIDE: Nothing fit. I mean they're -- I have about 20, 25 pairs of pants that I can't wear.

GUPTA: Well, finding time for exercise was a stretch, Pam and Michael soon discovered eating right took time, as well.

P. KIRKBRIDE: P,B and J is a huge thing in this house. That's instant dinner.

M. KIRKBRIDE: I'm aware of what -- how big food is I just don't really always have time to eat it.

GUPTA: Eating and exercise is time we can relate to, but the Kirkbrides have also just moved.

P. KIRKBRIDE: Usually you have a pattern in the morning, as you can tell we don't have one yet. I mean I sometimes change my clothes in the hallway.

GUPTA: While achieving their "New You Resolution" might be hard. Pam, Michael, and Olivia still find time to do one thing.

M. KIRKBRIDE: We do a lot of smiling. Boy, this belly's growing.

P. KIRKBRIDE: It's really growing. It is, I mentioned it last night.

M. KIRKBRIDE: I know you did.

P. KIRKBRIDE: That was sweet.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: Unlike our other participants, the Kirkbrides have some built-in motivation, each other. Well, let's take a look at what our experts have prescribed for the couple and their "New You Resolution."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

P. KIRKBRIDE: I mean, we were active people before her and we just want to get back to that lifestyle again.

GUPTA: Pam and Michael we've got your the "New You" plan to get you back where you want to be. First, your biggest problem area:

M. KIRKBRIDE: Time -- the hardest thing is to find the time.

GUPTA: Organizing your new apartment and schedules will help you get at least ten minutes a day to reflect and to plan ahead. Finding time will help you to find the gym again. We'll bring in a fitness expert to burn off the baby bulge. A regular exercise routine will give you more energy time for work, school, and parenting.

M. KIRKBRIDE: They're going to help me find time to go to the gym and eat well? Bring it on.

GUPTA: A parenting and nutrition expert will teach you the quickest and healthiest ways to shop for food and to eat on the go.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GUPTA: Well, resolving to find more time, that's a pretty common theme with all of our participants. If you're like 40 percent of Americans you resolve to change your ways this year. If you don't have me and a bunch of cameras following you around. It might be hard to stick with your plan, so here are some tips.

Put it in writing, and make sure you place it somewhere you're going to see it everyday. No. 2, tell someone else about your goals. Like I said, if you're telling the world, like our five have done, it's going to help you make a better commitment. Step three, plan ahead.

For instance, if you know that you're going to a party, eat before you go. If it's smoking that's the issue, come up with some alternatives ahead of time, like walking or calling a friend when temptation strikes. And finally, take baby steps. Remember, small steps can lead to big change. Just keep taking one day at a time, next thing you know, you'll have created a healthy lifestyle. If you want to follow along with David, Kim, Kathryn, and the Kirkbride's, just log on to CNN.com/reslolution. You can check on their progress by reading their daily journals, email them, or join them, by downloading a journal of your own.

Good luck to all of you with those New Year's resolutions. We're out of time for today, but make sure to tune in at 7:00 a.m. every Tuesday for the next seven weeks for updates on all our participants, and of course, make sure to watch WEEKEND HOUSE CALL every weekend at 8:30 Eastern, where we take your questions and we ask the experts.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta. "CNN Sunday Morning" continues, now.

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Aired January 11, 2004 - 8:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, HOST: Good morning and welcome to WEEKEND HOUSE CALL. Well, it's a new year and many of us are starting on some new healthy habits, so we set out to find five people who are doing just that, but they also had to be willing to let us follow them along with cameras for eight weeks as they try to improve their health. So, in this special edition of WEEKEND HOUSE CALL we're going to introduce you to five of our participants and fill you in on what kinds of advice they are getting from all the experts.
First up, David Peck, he's 43 years old, a father of two and a pretty typical business traveler. He's on the road all the time eating on a run. On a recent business trip David decided to write us for help. Here's his story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA (voice-over): Meet David Peck.

DAVID PECK, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: Yeah, it's season available.

GUPTA: At work, David Peck is seriously stressed. He's a head of sales at a small startup company in Silicon Valley.

PECK: If I get really stressed out, I'll go for comfort food. Fill the belly, feel good.

Would later on this afternoon be better?

GUPTA: Cold calls and corporate lunches, those are the staple of his day. Frequent flying, fatty road food, overeating. All of it makes him feel like he's checking in extra baggage. So, three times a week he heads to the gym. But, what truly motivates him to improve his health is something that happened more than 30 years ago. His father died of heart disease. David was nine, then. Today all he has is a few pictures.

PECK: I wish I would have known him. At least I --you know, I know I have memories of him, which is good.

GUPTA: He also has the fear the history will repeat itself.

PECK: It hurts. I don't want to do it to my kids.

GUPTA: David's family tree sags with even more heartache. His brother recently had a triple bypass. With his family history in mind, David decided to make a "New You Resolution" and visit his cardiologist for a stress test and echocardiogram. The results were as he feared.

DR. ALAN YEUNG, CHIEF OF CARDIOLOGY, STANFORD U: Actually on the stress test -- you know, you exercise for quite a bit of time and what happened that the back part of the heart slows down, so it suggests there's a blockage in the artery.

GUPTA (on camera): So, he just happened to have this stress test today, if he hadn't had it done what would have been his most likely scenario?

YEUNG: Yeah, it's -- we don't know for sure, but there's a good chance -- you know, in the future he might have a heart attack.

PECK: Well, I feel very fortunate that I was selected.

GUPTA: Yeah, I mean, that -- so it sort of inspired you a bit to get this done, hey? The...

PECK: Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean I know the path I would have taken if I didn't sign up.

GUPTA (voice-over): Signing up, may have spared his family a life without him.

AMY PECK, WIFE: Gosh, my heart would be ripped out of my chest. I would lose my best friend and just what the kids would lose would be so hard, and you never want that to happen.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: All right, David, we have a whole team assembled to help you out. Here's what a dietitian, fitness expert, and cardiologist prescribed for you in your "New You Resolution".

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PECK: It's like if they tell me that its -- you know, low fat, low calorie then I'm like --"OK, double it up."

GUPTA: The first item on your prescription, portion control. We'll hook you up with a nutritionist from the American Heart Association who will counsel you and help improve your food choices on the road.

PECK: I've made the mistake were I'll slam down a big burrito before I hop on a plane.

GUPTA: You're exercising three times a week. Great. We've enlisted a trainer to bolster the cardio and fill in the gaps in your workout. Help you lose weight, get you back to your old stealth self. You'll also craft workouts you can use on the plain, in your hotel room, and yoga, aroma therapy to calm those nerves. And you'll be following your doctor's orders to get an angiogram to take a closer look at your heart.

(END VIDEO CLIP) GUPTA: And, David's angiogram is scheduled this coming week. We'll make sure to keep you posted on that, as well.

Well, heart disease is the single largest killer of Americans every year. This year alone, for example, 700,000 people will have heart attacks, and you can do something to battle those odds. Start checking your numbers even if you are 20 years old. Find out what your blood pressure, your cholesterol levels are. You can do that by seeing your doctor. Also, stop smoking. Get outside, get some exercise, just 30 minutes a day can help prevent heart disease.

We're getting flooded with lots of e-mails in support of our participants, plus some pleas for advice. For example: April from Virginia has some of the same problems as David. She says, "I'm a flight attendant and find it extremely hard to eat healthy on the go. I am often reduced to airplane food which is very unhealthy, or airport food which is usually fast foods. If you have a solution on how to eat healthy with a hectic schedule I'd love to hear it."

Well April, the American Dietetic Association has some tips for all of you folks, just like you, that are on the go. First, try ordering kid size portions to save calories and swap the fries, for example, for a side salad. If that doesn't work, split your order with a friend so you can share the calories. For something lighter, swing by and get a fruit or a yogurt smoothie. Finally, if you're grabbing a bagel or a muffin, be size wise. A jumbo muffin has twice the fat grams and calories as the regular size.

Well, stay tuned to meet another of the fabulous five. She is a 20-something year old with her own family history of heart disease and diabetes to content with. Can she begin her new near and new resolution by stopping all that eating out and starting working out? Stay with us.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GUPTA: Well welcome back, everyone. Kim Everett is a busy 24- year-old Atlantaen. She juggles two jobs, too much work, and yields too little time for working out. And she says she hardly has the time to eat a healthy meal, but Kim knows she has to make healthy changes or she's going to end up following in her family's footstep, diabetes and heart problems.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: Meet Kimberly Everett.

KIMBERLY EVERETT, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: I'm going to be so sexy, you guys are not going know me.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Kim's not going to do the diet.

EVERETT: Yes, I am.

GUPTA: She wakes up at 6:00. Sits in Atlanta's traffic and makes it to her full-time P.R. job at 7:30, and three nights a week she works at her favorite store.

EVERETT: Would you like some comforting tea tonight?

GUPTA: She signed up for the "New You Resolution" because she knew she needed to lose weight.

EVERETT: And I was like, "Wow, -- you know, ten pounds is a lot." So I totally killed the breakfast, because I know that one thing I'd have to change totally.

GUPTA: And, lunch.

EVERETT: Cheese sticks.

GUPTA: And, dinner.

EVERETT: I guess I'll have -- yeah, I'll have daiquiri, I'm not really hungry tonight.

GUPTA: Her sister, Tory, roommate and best friend worries about Kim's eating habits.

TORY EVERETT, SISTER: After 24 years of eating unhealthy, you really don't know how to eat -- I mean you don't, you don't know how to eat healthy. Every night we had fried foods for dinner. My dad tried to eat healthier after his heart attack.

EVERETT: He tried.

T. EVERETT: It would be like baked fish and a beer or something.

EVERETT: Yeah.

GUPTA: So, we checked in with internist Dr. Richard Wright for a physical, to get her started.

DR. RICHARD WRIGHT: So, being that your parents both had diabetes and high blood pressure, that's going to put you at risk for getting high blood pressure and diabetes.

GUPTA: Kim may not be able to change her family history, but the American Diabetes Association says she can reduce her risk for diabetes by getting her weight under control through diet and exercise.

T. EVERETT: Show some of your crunches.

EVERETT: We're not going to be exercising today.

T. EVERETT: Kim goes "oooh!"

(LAUGHTER)

GUPTA: Can she handle the challenge?

EVERETT: I hope to look like Tina Turner with a great body when I'm 60. So, if I can start off now at 24, then I'll be happy.

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GUPTA: To help Kim become a little more Tina-like we've enlisted a dietitian and a physiologist. Here's a prescription for some healthy changes.

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T. EVERETT: Yeah, she works a lot but a lot of it is laziness, too, because Kim likes to lay down and relax, a lot.

(LAUGHTER)

GUPTA: Get ready, Kim, we've the formula for a new you. Here's the dietitian's prescription: Routine, routine, routine. Get on an eating schedule, no more skipping meals. Fight family history with high fiber and calorie control, choose wisely during a fast food frenzy. Pack power lunches. And, the trainer says: Variety, variety, variety. Circuit cardio six days a week, weight training three days a week, squeeze in a stress release class, measure your body fat percentage at mid program and week eight.

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GUPTA: Exercising and watching what you eat, sounds easy enough, but as we all know it's tough to do sometimes. Well, people are sympathizing already with Kim and offering some advice. Barry from Texas had this to say: "I would have to say that the one biggest thing that I did to help me out, when losing weight and also keeping it off, is an easy thing. Whenever you go out to eat, ask your wait tower bring you a to-go box along with your meal. Before you take one bite, remove half of your meal into your to-go box and set it next to your purse. Its going to help you from overeating, because we all know that most restaurants serve way more food than we should eat at any one sitting."

Some pretty interesting advice there, Barry.

Since Kim has a family history of diabetes, it's especially important for her to keep her weight down. According to the American Diabetes Association, nearly 90 percent of people with newly diagnosed type two diabetes are overweight. To find your odds of developing diabetes try visiting the Web site at www.diabetes.org. There you're going to find a diabetes risk test where you can find out if you're at risk of becoming a diabetic.

But, don't go to that Web site just yet, because up next, we're going to be talking about breaking another deadly habit. We'll meet a 30-something who wants to end her pack-a-day habit without packing on the pounds. Stay with us.

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GUPTA: Welcome back to WEEKEND HOUSE CALL. Well, if you resolved to get healthier in 2004, this is the show to watch. We have selected five people with different kinds of health issues to follow for eight weeks as they try to change some of their unhealthy habits. You've already heard about David and Kim and their troubling family histories, now meet Kathryn Burkholder. She's 31 years old, she's from Atlanta, has smoked a pack a day for more than half her life. Now Kathryn's resolved to kick the habit, but she knows it's not going to be easy.

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GUPTA: Meet Kathryn Burkholder.

KATHRYN BURKHOLDER, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: Last week, if I got one time -- "I didn't know you smoked," I got it like 37 times. Because everybody was like, "why you are in a healthy makeover, you always look so healthy."

GUPTA: She is a busy, single, young professional, with lots friends, a pet bunny named Joe, and a deadly habit.

BURKHOLDER: In an hour I could probably smoke ten cigarettes, if I just sat here and did it. And it wouldn't be hard for me to do that.

GUPTA: She puffs up to a pack or more a day.

BURKHOLDER: So, I smoke pretty much all the time in the car.

GUPTA: Smoke breaks at work.

BURKHOLDER: Doesn't it look like fun? Don't you want to do it, too?

GUPTA: And, outside in the evenings.

BURKHOLDER: I just never have smoked in my house.

GUPTA: But, now she wants to quit the addiction for good.

BURKHOLDER: I'm not nervous about quitting. I'm nervous about staying quit.

GUPTA: She says she quit 12 times already with no luck.

BURKHOLDER: I've tried cold turkey, I've tried medication, I've tried the patch.

GUPTA (on camera): You've tried it all.

BURKHOLDER: Pretty much.

GUPTA (voice-over): A big fear, packing on the pounds.

BURKHOLDER: Well, and every time I quit more than a month I've always gained at least ten pounds and it's kind of horrifying to gain that much weight that fast.

GUPTA: But, there's also concern about her health as the years add up.

BURKHOLDER: There's not that many cases of people who, you know, have lung cancer at 31, but at 40 there are or even 35. So I think that's why it's important I quit now.

GUPTA: Her mom has begged her to quit for years, but says Kathryn's just been too stubborn until now.

MRS. BURKHOLDER, KATHRYN'S MOTHER: You don't want her taking chances especially as you get older. If she had any sense, she never would have never lit the first cigarette.

GUPTA: Despite a bad family history of heart disease, diabetes, and breast cancer, Kathryn passed her physical with flying colors. But her doctor, Douglas Radnan, still urges her to quit.

DR. DOUGLAS RADNAN: If you can quit now, later on in life, and most of the negative effects will have reversed themselves and it's certainly the biggest gift you can give to yourself.

GUPTA (on camera): Where do you see yourself two months from now? What do you want to be doing?

BURKHOLDER: Two months from now I would like to be able to sit for a couple of hours and not think, "I need a cigarette."

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GUPTA: All right. In order to help Kathryn along with her goal we've talked to her doctor and top experts around the country on smoking cessation. Here's their prescription for quitting long term.

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BURKHOLDER: It would be easier for me to get a Ph.D than quitting smoking.

GUPTA: Get ready Kathryn, we've a formula for a new you. Your doctor says combining treatments is the secret to success. He prescribed Zyban for you. Take that along with nicotine replacement, like the patch, gum, or lozenges. Your doctor also prescribed counseling, because constant support is the last key to success. Through a program called Intervent, you'll get one on one counseling available 24 hours a day for a whole year. You'll also get a personal nutrition and exercise plan. And last, a lung and heart scan to see if smoking has done any damage so far.

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GUPTA: Well, we'll bring you the results of those scans sometimes during the next eight weeks, so make sure to tune in for that, as well. As for Kathryn's plan, the experts say combination is the key to quitting. A new study out just this week may help you make the decision and help you stay with it. The study out of the journal of the National Cancer Institute that finds that women who smoke are 30 percent more likely to develop breast cancer. This is the first study to say for certain that there is a link, and if it hold up under scrutiny, smoking would be the only controllable cause of breast cancer. And, in case that's not enough, over 68,000 people are expected to die from lung cancer this year. We hope lots of people will be able to follow along with Kathryn and kick that smoking habit for good.

Coming up next, meet the new parents with a brand new baby girl just six months old. Their lives have been turned upside down about this little girl. Forget about exercise and healthy eating, they can't even get sleep. I know many of you sympathize, so stay tuned for ways to get healthy baby-style. But first, checkout this week's edition of "You're your Health."

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ANNOUNCER: Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Mammography is the best available method to detect breast cancer in its earliest, most treatable stage. Women, age 40 years and older should have routine mammograms every one to two years, and all women should conduct monthly self-exams. You can learn more about the self-exams by asking your doctor, or on Web sites devoted to breast cancer detection and care.

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GUPTA: Welcome back. Well from getting heart healthy to stopping smoking we seem to have covered it all with our participants, but there is one category left that still deserves some attention. You parents and the struggle with healthy living. So, we found a young couple dealing with new parenthood, here in New York City, they're the Kirkbrides, as many new parents find out, time becomes scarce when a baby arrives. Lack of sleep and energy is something many other parents have coped with. But Pam and Michael stood out because of their commitment to meet their "New You Resolution" together. Here is Team Kirkbride.

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GUPTA: Meet Pam and Michael Kirkbride.

PAM KIRKBRIDE, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: Are you swimming?

GUPTA: Almost six months ago, the birth of Olivia changed everything.

P. KIRKBRIDE: It's not about you anymore. It's about the baby and it's about Olivia's well-being.

MICHAEL KIRKBRIDE, "NEW YOU" PARTICIPANT: I think that the hardest thing -- new parenting, is that it's true anywhere...

P. KIRKBRIDE: Yeah.

M. KIRKBRIDE: It's sleep. P. KIRKBRIDE: Yeah.

M. KIRKBRIDE: It's just so hard finding time to sleep.

GUPTA: Simply finding time is a challenge for these New York City 30-somethings. Michael, in addition to being a new father, works two consulting jobs and is getting his MBA.

M. KIRKBRIDE: Between work and -- I'm running a startup, basically, and schools which take as lot of time, no matter what, it's hard to find time to do anything.

GUPTA: Pam recently returned to work in marketing at Liz Claiborne.

P. KIRKBRIDE: I'm pretty much on the go and I hide that I'm tired all the time.

GUPTA: The Kirkbirdes grew up together, married for three and a half years, they were an active couple. The gym together, sports on the weekends, until now. When the schedules crunched, the first thing to go was exercise and the next thing to come was weight.

Over the past year Pam and Michael have gained more than 40 pounds together.

M. KIRKBRIDE: I'm sitting at a meeting with a guy I worked for about five or six years and he looked at me, in the middle of the meeting, and was like, "Michael, you're getting fat." I was like, "What?"

GUPTA: Motherhood brings new changes including an increased ring size and dress size.

P. KIRKBRIDE: Nothing fit. I mean they're -- I have about 20, 25 pairs of pants that I can't wear.

GUPTA: Well, finding time for exercise was a stretch, Pam and Michael soon discovered eating right took time, as well.

P. KIRKBRIDE: P,B and J is a huge thing in this house. That's instant dinner.

M. KIRKBRIDE: I'm aware of what -- how big food is I just don't really always have time to eat it.

GUPTA: Eating and exercise is time we can relate to, but the Kirkbrides have also just moved.

P. KIRKBRIDE: Usually you have a pattern in the morning, as you can tell we don't have one yet. I mean I sometimes change my clothes in the hallway.

GUPTA: While achieving their "New You Resolution" might be hard. Pam, Michael, and Olivia still find time to do one thing.

M. KIRKBRIDE: We do a lot of smiling. Boy, this belly's growing.

P. KIRKBRIDE: It's really growing. It is, I mentioned it last night.

M. KIRKBRIDE: I know you did.

P. KIRKBRIDE: That was sweet.

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GUPTA: Unlike our other participants, the Kirkbrides have some built-in motivation, each other. Well, let's take a look at what our experts have prescribed for the couple and their "New You Resolution."

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P. KIRKBRIDE: I mean, we were active people before her and we just want to get back to that lifestyle again.

GUPTA: Pam and Michael we've got your the "New You" plan to get you back where you want to be. First, your biggest problem area:

M. KIRKBRIDE: Time -- the hardest thing is to find the time.

GUPTA: Organizing your new apartment and schedules will help you get at least ten minutes a day to reflect and to plan ahead. Finding time will help you to find the gym again. We'll bring in a fitness expert to burn off the baby bulge. A regular exercise routine will give you more energy time for work, school, and parenting.

M. KIRKBRIDE: They're going to help me find time to go to the gym and eat well? Bring it on.

GUPTA: A parenting and nutrition expert will teach you the quickest and healthiest ways to shop for food and to eat on the go.

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GUPTA: Well, resolving to find more time, that's a pretty common theme with all of our participants. If you're like 40 percent of Americans you resolve to change your ways this year. If you don't have me and a bunch of cameras following you around. It might be hard to stick with your plan, so here are some tips.

Put it in writing, and make sure you place it somewhere you're going to see it everyday. No. 2, tell someone else about your goals. Like I said, if you're telling the world, like our five have done, it's going to help you make a better commitment. Step three, plan ahead.

For instance, if you know that you're going to a party, eat before you go. If it's smoking that's the issue, come up with some alternatives ahead of time, like walking or calling a friend when temptation strikes. And finally, take baby steps. Remember, small steps can lead to big change. Just keep taking one day at a time, next thing you know, you'll have created a healthy lifestyle. If you want to follow along with David, Kim, Kathryn, and the Kirkbride's, just log on to CNN.com/reslolution. You can check on their progress by reading their daily journals, email them, or join them, by downloading a journal of your own.

Good luck to all of you with those New Year's resolutions. We're out of time for today, but make sure to tune in at 7:00 a.m. every Tuesday for the next seven weeks for updates on all our participants, and of course, make sure to watch WEEKEND HOUSE CALL every weekend at 8:30 Eastern, where we take your questions and we ask the experts.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta. "CNN Sunday Morning" continues, now.

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