A little fat on the side, please.

Here is a recent article from the drudge report.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040309/D8173CP00.html

"It's going to overtake tobacco" if the trend continues, Gerberding said. "At CDC, we're going to do everything we can to prevent it," she said. "Obesity has got to be job No. 1 for us in terms of chronic diseases."

Well there are several ways to solve this problem.
I let you decide which is better.

1. You could make law regulating the size and relative helpfulness of meals.
Effects: Total regulation of the food Americans consume will definitely solve the problem and piss off lots of
Americans. (More government)

2. You could remove all food subsidies
Effects: Right now dairy and meat receive large subsides, and removing the subsides would raise the prices on
dairy and meat. Hopefully market economics would then take over, and more people would eat rice. (Less
government, entire departments would disappear)

2.A.Then subsidize only healthily foods.
Effects: Right now dairy and meat receive large subsides, and removing the subsides would raise the prices on
dairy and meat. Hopefully market economics would then take over, and more people would eat rice. (Same
amount of government.)

3. You could remove all taxes on food, and tax the unhealthier items the most.
Effects: This would make unhealthily snack items more expensive, and would give the state money to
educate the youth, run the youth, and treat the already fat. If the funds raised from the fat tax were
put into a feedback loop to solve the actual problem it taxed, this would be a viable solution.
(same amount of government, but it is allowing market economics to fuel the money for the problem)

4. You could make discrimination based on BMI (Body Mass Index) legal. This would allow planes, trains,
and public transportation to charge the truly fat peoples more. It would also allow health insurance
to charge the fat more also. BMI can be calculated very exactly using other tools besides height
and weight. This would only be fair, because if you have large amounts of muscle and small
amounts of body fat, you BMI would still be high. (same amount of government)

Any more ideas would be appreciated.
Cube