The Farm Bill affects the

Ever wondered why your cheezy poofs were cheaper than that bag of carrot sticks in the produce isle? Well, it's because the Farm Bill aka the Food Bill creates exorbitant subsidies for agricultural products such as corn and soy beans keeping it's byproducts such as the lovely and tasty high fructose corn syrup artificially cheap and prevalent in many, many boxed goods. Nowadays, I am always AMAZED when I see that there is actual sugar in a product! Sugar people! Good ol sucrose...two C6H12O6 molecules chained together...to create delicious sweets.

So, what does this have to do with obesity? Instead of increasing subsidies for other healthy and nourishing produce such as carrots, or broccoli and preventing the less wealthy families from becoming malnourished, large or already well off farms are thriving by producing products that keep the "middle isles" of the grocery store artificially cheap. Instead of feeding your kids vegetables for a week for about $60, you can feed them junk food and soda instead for $30. As a result, kids of the lower class perform more poorly in school by not gaining the proper nutrients to allow them to physically develop to their fullest potenial. You could venture further into larger social problems such as crime as a result of deficiencies started from childhood and the list goes on and on.