Thursday night was the obesity episode of NPT's ongoing Children's Health Crisis series. (If you missed it, you can and should watch it at the link above.) It was, I would say, 90 percent good. They did an excellent job of covering the issues of unwalkable neighborhoods, a lack of places for people to shop and get fresh fruits and vegetables, the motivations people have for buying the least expensive things on menus even if they're the least healthy, and the crappy foods kids have available to them at school.
I thought they also did a good job of speaking honestly about the unlikelihood of making fat people non-fat and stressing, instead, that people, no matter what their sizes, would benefit from better nutrition and regular exercise.
So pretty much everything after the first 10 minutes was good.
