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Actually the biggest contributor to obesity is inactivity. I have suggested before that one rule of getting foodstamps is to look for a job for those that don't have one..this would help fight obesity.
Definitely, everyone should be active...but again, you have the problem of mission creep. Regulating people's activity to fight obesity is much farther outside the scope of the food stamp program than regulating what foods they can buy.
Kal'Stang said:Foodstamps was brought into play to avoid people starving to death. Not to avoid malnutrition as you are using the term.
They're essentially the same thing...starving to death is just a more severe form of malnutrition. Soda doesn't accomplish the goal of preventing starvation/malnutrition. It provides empty calories, not nutrients. People need nutrients to avoid starvation, not just calories.
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