No Snacks Allowed by Sarah Fulton

The recently passed "Child Nutrition Bill" was pushed into action by Michelle Obama to "combat obesity and hunger (Pear)." How is one to combat hunger when this bill will take away money from food stamps- and make the already hungry even more so? The government has also kindly changed 'food stamps' to the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Pear)." I think that having such control over what people are eating sounds a bit like Socialism to me. Obama allegedly did say that he would find other places to allocate money for the program before cutting food stamps. I find it interesting that there is no concrete evidence that cutting back in fatty foods or sodas will result in less obesity among children. If the child eats a healthy lunch at school and then immediately runs home to sit in front of the t.v. with chips, ice cream and soda, what good does it do? I am not advocating obesity, but I think that taking away things that children look forward to having causes them to lack comfort, resulting in overall unhappiness and craving the treats. I think that instead of cutting the foods completely, teachers, motivational speakers, whoever should teach children portion control and a healthy diet, but not restrict them from the foods completely.