Natchez &8212; Mika Brzezinski brought her breakfast to the Marketplace Caf/ in two Ziploc bags Wednesday morning.

Despite the enticing aromas of fresh brewed coffee and bacon and eggs filling the Natchez restaurant, the CBS correspondent stuck to her guns and ate her bowl of oatmeal and flax seed sweetened with honey.

&8220;If I ate one of those,&8221; Brzezinski said, pointing to the crisp slice of bacon her producer was eating, &8220;I would run to the kitchen for ten slices more.&8221;

And that is precisely why the CBS crew came to Natchez on their &8220;Road to Ruin: Fighting Obesity&8221; tour.

&8220;The Southern diet has been focused around taste,&8221; Brzezinski said after the morning taping session. &8220;It is like smoking. It is an addiction.&8221;

Starting Monday, CBS news has been looking at America&8217;s relationship with food and how that feeds in to the country&8217;s obesity crisis.

Each morning and each night until Thanksgiving, the television network will be broadcasting a story from their road trip.

&8220;We wanted to go to the fattest states in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control,&8221; Brzezinski said.

So, they started in the CDC&8217;s &8220;fattest city in America,&8221; Houston, Texas, and over the course of 10 days will have visited towns across the Southeast.

Tuesday the film crew visited Lake Charles and Alexandria, La. Wednesday they made their way to Natchez.

Sitting with Marketplace co-owner Anna Byrne and two other Marketplace Caf/ patrons, Brzezinski sat down and discussed the caf/&8217;s specialty, beignets.

Displaying the red basket filled with the fried breakfast treat to the camera, Brzezinski quizzed the three about how Southerners&8217; taste for such foods has helped add to the obesity problem.

&8220;Southerners love to eat,&8221; Helen Brooks said during the two-and-a-half minute interview.

&8220;So if it is fried food every day, that is what they eat,&8221; Brzezinski said.

&8220;That is usually what it is,&8221; Brooks said.

Wednesday evening, CBS news aired an episode from Alcorn State University looking at the historical and cultural influences that may encourage obesity in the black community. From Alcorn the tour continues to Jackson.