I heard this on NPR this morning:

Impact Of Childhood Obesity Goes Beyond Health

There’s no food available in many inner-city areas. True. There are limited opportunities for exercise in high-crime neighborhood. True. They spent 2 billion dollars trying to help obesity. True. The problem can be fixed without addressing any of the previous 3 things: True.

The government has the power to make it cheaper to eat a salad than a hamburger. They don’t do it because poor and middle class fat people don’t matter, but mcdonalds, conagra and archer daniels midland do. End of story.