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so my lappy

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you have and its but the Energy Lab very short period applies

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and you're hungry much sooner and then you have to get

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happening again really happening again it is a lot cheaper to healthy fast food

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mean definitely you can buy hamburger for cheaper than you can buy an Apple

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yeah have to pay more the

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UK I think any

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agent my dad

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it's unbelievable the poorest people in our country

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fast people this we've done something completely wrong

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on a Sunday afternoon an annoyance up the Bucktown sea food festivals getting

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underway

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bucktail as a tiny fishing village that has been here for more than a hundred

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fifty years

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it was almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005

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but hasn't lost his touch for what it does best

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boat is a big part in the court heard oral and I can you use a lotta

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deep fried foods and heavy sauces will tell you what people

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other places may eat to live here they actually lifted mauling

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most the bar from him poem called

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in ruins it combination of lower in oil

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and not the basis for most the bus of and

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have I'll put a lot of bad that he and

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the basic foods that we make from the end scoops the Jumbos to

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your to phased

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how important this food to the culture down here it's a whole new level

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but I'll check the whole way this the said he would %ah

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it what happened we'll it's all about food right around here

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you know the certain way we do seafood you know certain way we cry like died

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bonnet to win a prize where we take a whole one using

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you know I we cry out on the stump make it a scare with extra spice

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their their ticket that can't be good for you can be measured against them

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ever seen anyone anyone you know when I was younger I used the only 1i could

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touch you have for now

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yep to be examined the high-fat deep fried food cultures

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delicious but has deadly consequences my guitar

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high blood pressure

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hard here

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killers when you know was born in New Orleans after Katrina she says

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it even more difficult access good food hard

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a lot of bad

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free

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like that

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hit it on the line from a good reason we'll see on

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down from a Christmas dollars for his big dollars for dinner

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we ate McDonalds all the time

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weeeeee beechwood trashy stuff

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person if a starter wat has always been an issue

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is down now to 170 killers from nearly 200

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it's been a difficult challenge first family to enter somehow

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week we see in internal medicine doctor who has a apply and that

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we can go to and I'm but you know the prescriptions that he really needs

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we can afford and arm

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the arm the specialist we can afford

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see the kidney specialist and so

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arm they had not a good thing

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I don't want to be the thank you I

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that was as a No typical fag guy who died in

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where we love motion was way humans can mean we lived

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I don't want to be that guy don has reached the point

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Sydney she believes in operation constrict stomach with the Bayan

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maybe his best hope but no insurance company will give them coverage because

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obesity is considered a pre-existing condition

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you know it is a radical approach but if he can get it soon his body or be

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will not be strong enough to even have that it

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done Sydney on alone consider the backs

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two out of every three Americans are overweight DBA and that number is

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expected to rise

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230 for by 2020 the United States as the world's

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that is developed nation with an obesity rate double that in many European

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countries

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one in three Americans expected to have diabetes by 2050

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minorities have been even more profoundly affected blacks have a fifty

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percent higher prevalence of obesity

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hispanics 25 percent higher compare

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lights

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my so how did you get this way go BC rates have been going up very rapidly in

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the United States for really only since about 1980

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before that they were constant for decades a change in the way our federal

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agriculture policy word

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which went from paying farmers not to grow food to paying farmers to grow as

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much food as they possibly could

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and the resulting that was an enormous increase in the amount of food

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available in the country for consumption portion sizes when up as well

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best food serving for two to five times with the used to be

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this is the signature Burger King store Times Square New York

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this particular bill has some around 36 100 calories

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look at this you think around 18

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hours an exercise to burn off this many calories

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I mean I still remember there was a coke machine

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in the teachers lounge my elementary school and have these ABB the little

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bottles I think they probably were

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8-ounce bottles of coke and now I mean

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its the average portion that you see if you went into Lake can be in store would

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probably be a 20-ounce bottle that sold as a single serving

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American food policy doesn't happen in isolation

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there many moving parts that make up a complex puzzle

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large government agencies multinational corporations

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the course lobbyist we try to shape the country's through policies to come to

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washington

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form government to try to force

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changes I to dictate to consumers

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in a free society what they do

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use I me know I'd there's not a good record that being successful all this

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goes back to congress

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an if you wanna do something about public health in america

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what you really need to do is to change election campaign laws

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so that these big corporations aren't paying for congressional elections

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that's the source of corruption in American government

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two out of every three food stores in harlem this was noticeable day

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these are grocery stores the more like corner convenience stores

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so rather than have fresh meat fresh vegetables they tend to have a lot of

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processed foods

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sugary foods and expecially sodas the city of New York has identified sodas

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and other sugar-sweetened beverages is one of the main causes of obesity

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in an attempt to improve health

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and decrease consumption the city's request a two year period

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on a lower sipping to food stamps force now to purchase the tricks

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the SNAP program is really not designed to

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purchase a person's entire diet but it's designed to give them more money

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so that they can afford nutritious foods and I don't think

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anyone in this country but argue that sugar-sweetened beverages are nutritious

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foods

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what the request is being considered by the Department agriculture

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the beverage industry is fighting back hill at five dollars to these drinks

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it's not Penny's serious money New York has filed a similar battle once before

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and lost when I try to implement a soda tax earlier this year

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we can't afford know that the beverage tax the American Beverage Association

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spent more than 10 million dollars on their ad campaign defeating bill

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people entitled treat themselves

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at the Sun level are they to treat themselves with government I'll

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money by almost 20 I'll by all means cause

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sorta is not the sole corporate on the busy and if you cannot pinpoint what

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other corporate so busy

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will have to eliminate maybe sixty percent of us who some possible markets

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today

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what about people say great eliminate them

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more than you had to do that across the board by the

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American food landscape is gonna be totally different than what we know it

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today

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country purcell the supermarket his chubby

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imported from the Carribean the manufacturer up the drink boast that it

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was developed to target children

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and it fits snugly in the palm a child's hand

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the US has no rules or laws are been a soda from being marketed to children

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industry backers like it that way an exciting new category in the soft drink

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industry was created when Chuck E was developed to target

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children that's a terrible idea but her

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mean one last time you enable this even chevys first time all summer job is Leon

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Washington DC

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yeah i cant I'm not make it small for I'm not going to handle such abuse this

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is the kinda poor practice that shouldn't be current

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should be regulated should be regulating there's about seven doughnuts with the

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server and their

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so see does their traditional information on the bottle

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I will and it's on the container if it's on the package otherwise it's not legal

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be sold United States I don't know where you got it

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tell me about get that Washington DC okay well I suspect you should try but

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you can get their own traditional

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information about their website okay 3234 I'm not sure depending on the plane

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I'm just not gonna defend it that's a terrible practice

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should be regulated should be regulated in should children be protected from

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that protected

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that's apparently for for many Americans

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economic times have never been worse but for fast food companies

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but never been better well one in eight americans rely on food stamps

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the stock to Taco Bell Pizza Hut Kentucky Fried Chicken in McDonnell's

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bird all-time highs for consumers stretching the recession dollars to buy

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healthy food

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has been tough especially with chains like Little Caesars offer a large pizza

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for only five bucks

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for the McDonalds McDouble the double cheeseburger

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goes for just image if I you wanna make that change anything

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you need an economic that when you can even buy being

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to thank you company that we still haven't even doubted he'd made by some

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chick

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literally growing up my head home economics in school

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and so they taught you wanna help me play look like you have died

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a protein a vegetable and I think that the information that children don't

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had and because they see in the environment unhealthy food and make me

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it's

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cheaper it being consumed by everybody they don't think about an alternative

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but if you believe in the education maybe they would head

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information to make the alternative choice the healthy usually

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him read a

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the your the really

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temples

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but the Thurgood Marshall Academy

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an elementary school on 131st Street by the experiment is on the way to fight

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back against the real bad

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two choices and community

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pathologically Williams is a neurologist at Harlem Hospital

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used to build a program that harnesses the power a pop music to teach children

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about healthy food choices help of his the is the social epidemic amongst

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you I hip-hop is is the life for

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a monthly the one thing to program teachers

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is a new board literacy the ability to read a food label

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the the their range is on the menu board there

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inches sizes and it's very very calm

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he to you grant

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to you him

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and about calories doctor williams knows that the odds are stacked against them

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nearly half the children harlem are overweight or obese

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in this message has to be to well

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law funded fast food industry the spin 4.2 billion dollars on advertising last

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year

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we are up against and read a whole

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and for lack of a better word you know

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fast food industry makes money but okay

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the old one more programs trying to make a difference

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and think one block time one

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Street right one neighborhood

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it you can succeed you in a brawl we can pretty much sexy

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in any tough neighborhood across the world

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its media day at the white house in journals from around the world are

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clamoring to see Michelle Obama's kitchen garden she's decided to make

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healthy eating and exercise the centerpiece of her role as first lady

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we have to eliminate from disease in this country we need to do in

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you don't need to travel far from the white house

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just a few miles to find what Michelle Obama describes as a food desert

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premium liquor stores but no fresh food Southeast DC has one of the worst the

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peacekeepers in the country

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the food that you bring your body can either Hill you or kill you

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on a Saturday morning the ward eight farmers market as a smaller waist

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in otherwise barren with landscape noted

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yes worn by underpaid Washington DC native Indian chef

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is giving a demonstration teaching residents how to make a raw fruit salad

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did

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now are good because when you cook

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in the nineteen armies into the water

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I was born there in Washington DC I was raised in a food desert

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you know and people just don't know he just don't know

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they haven't been exposed they haven't left southeast

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their use

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cue why it may be exposed to and what they've been exposed to is liquor stores

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corner stores in carry out

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chicken wing llamo saws Hot Chip

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blue juices if all else fails you and you can't find the small

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Joe the blue youth we always have access to the gallon

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have them you that that's that's a gallon a blue

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miss you hill mountain with artificially colored and artificially flavored

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I would you describe the

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the hell for people who live in environments like this

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where we are right now in DC which is southeastward

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8 is typically the most OB

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play in the country there's something wrong with that being in the nation's

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capital something extremely wrong with that find in there when you're eating

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poop and they're known each and then you wouldn't want to eat more

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because your body is not recognizing many tree individual meetings are you

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gonna keep on

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eating your body intelligent that money people

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eating to try to get some of these any chance that you not getting any a bit

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because you're eating

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fried foods you eating dead foods

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you eating foods that have no this is the United States Department of

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Agriculture

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for USTA it represents the American food industry

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everything from small farmers to chain restaurants and in doing so it helps

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them sell

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more food but also put out the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

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the pronation facing an obesity epidemic eating less food

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could be the only way I'll so how can this one department represent these

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conflicting

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interest the USTA whose historic role

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has been to promote american agribusiness is now also in the position

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have promoting healthful diets and

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that was never a problem before obesity became a problem

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it was only 11 dietary advice needed change to encourage people to

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less that the USDA came into conflict

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and those conflicts have played out over the years

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clearly example well the Dietary Guidelines for Americans which is the

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advice that the government gives people about what D

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in every city lesson anything I worked very hard on setting up the first review

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process for those

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to be sure that scientific authorities

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or calling the shots jon boat he was assistant secretary

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agriculture for food and consumer services during the nineteen eighties

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now he's a lobbyist representing clients like Kraft Foods mcdonnell's

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it was known as the revolving door between the food industry

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and the government agencies meant to regulate for example

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Michael Taylor was an executive at the agricultural giant Monsanto

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before taking a senior post at the Food and Drug Administration were careful to

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keep

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let the USDA 2001

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and later joined mars the candy company that makes peoples and Eminem's

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in there was brought back by President Obama this year

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to the USTA in so removal

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opening door that that causes some concern I that's understandable

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the notion that our government officials word

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I one day be a government official on the next day

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basically selling their influence and so

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stepping out for your I i think that makes good sense

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in this year's national for me but I still have the real issue seems an

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extended

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I in surveyor they're no longer the no longer

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yeah already know they are there I'm sorry I'm don't feel comfortable

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trying to recite what they are now loosen up america

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the cheesy bites pizza is packed in 2007 Pizza Hut came out with cheesy bites

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pizza

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as you'd expect it's high in calories and saturated fat which you may not

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suspect

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is that some other support for came from a surprising source title:

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a tree crew overseen by the USDA is our public interest when you're representing

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the cheese industry and you representing

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the nutritional interest americans well I'm I wouldn't listen to speak to that

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because that's not my particular variable

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have expertise I will tell you that the food nutrition service

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apartheid USDA that tries to encourage healthy eating in a school setting

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I have never taken more seriously than we do today we pressed to repair it is

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about this several times

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okay just like before them for their hard work

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today the USDA's celebrating the opening up a salad bar an elementary school in

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Washington DC

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to step in the right direction for school system that has one of the

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highest obesity rates in the country

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forty-three percent of the students here are either obese

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away this is very very atypical a voice in the school system

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from you know mostly it's processed

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a high in sugar foods call Armstrong as an executive chef and owner of a local

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four-star restaurant he took an interest in school food when the white house show

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personally asked him to make a visit we visit a title a measure on capitol hill

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Obama and we went into the cafeteria

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and went into the refrigerators and freezers and inside the freezer they had

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his box a turkey sandwiches

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you know those Turkey's out for breakfast had about a hundred

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ingredients we were so shocked that a photograph

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called thing greens are on the label wat turkey sandwiches like

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me granny and bread the last time I checked and bread as pouring rain

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sometimes five

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so from the kids the stand mixer for cheaper

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across key was shocked at what he found when he volunteered in his daughter's

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elementary school cafeteria

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so i win expecting to see

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food cooked from scratch in here comes all these

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frozen beef chrome bowls and a

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tater tots and start taking pictures at the food for new blog

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so the parents to see with their kids for you think

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whose most processed food that's partially because the USDA's a virtual

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excess food

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to large companies the return schools in the former patty

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beaters and nuggets it's all about money and

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you know the so-called value-added products where corporations can somehow

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get between

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you and you know real farm products

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and with it into something that they can make

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money offer mean that's really what it boils down to are

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Bell verses them police poses and works part-time at a private school in

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washington

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teaching children how to cook and enjoy food you see real changes in the DC

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public school system

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less sugary foods more for too much doubles the key my feeling is

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school whose important because were perpetuating a culture UHV

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junk food that is literally home

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making kids sick home

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the US government says the current generation could be the first in history

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to have a shorter life span than their parents %uh

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the forces driving though BC spike in america maybe complex

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but they're not unknown the question as hell

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who's profiting from the current situation

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clearly not the children

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body comes down to money and I think it's a complicated

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multi-layered problem and I think it's something that perpetuated itself

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throughout the years especially for people apollo

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to be in a Mary for urban area is not exactly a choice you money dictate

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thank you need to leave their anything me what your body

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you buy with within your meeting

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the economics of our fee structure are completely working against public health

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I mean you almost couldn't have designed a worse environment where you take your

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lease healthy products

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things that are high in sugar and fat and salt and highly processed

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and you make them significantly less expensive been your most of the products

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well and a lot of families who are just enough financial situation were

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cheap food is so heavily subsidized so falsely an expensive but they just don't

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know any better

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you know and not tell you what they want they finally done with with the

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difference is more than their children

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hopefully they'll be up in arms about it good

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good

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Obesity in America has reached a crisis point. Two out of every three Americans are overweight, one out of every three is obese. One in three are expected to have diabetes by 2050.

Minorities have been even more profoundly affected. African-Americans have a 50 per cent higher prevalence of obesity and Hispanics 25 per cent higher when compared with whites.

How did the situation get so out of hand?

On this week's episode of Fault Lines, Josh Rushing explores the world of cheap food for Americans living at the margins.

What opportunities do people have to eat healthy? Who is responsible for food deserts and processed food in American schools?

Fault Lines finds food revolutions taking place and speaks with the people that are fighting back.

People featured in this film: Marion Nestle, Marlene Schwartz, John Bode, Nelson Eusebio, J. Justin Wilson, Dr. Olajide Williams, Lauren Von Der Pool, Julie Paradis, Cathal Armstrong, Ed Bruske,

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