A government grant is funding a study to see if Latino parishioners can be encouraged to exercise more through their local church. How do you feel about taxpayer dollars going to answer this question? Doc and Kris agree that “Catholic guilt” could be useful to get people to move more, but they’re not thrilled about the National Institutes of Health spending around $700,000 to find out if churches can use their "vast social networks" and "moral authority" to encourage Latinos to exercise.


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