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When earlier this week President Obama signed into law The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, the first lady’s signature issue, my stomach turned (no pun intended). The $4.5 billion bill expands the school lunch program, increases the reimbursement rate to school districts and replaces fast-food and vending machine snacks at schools with more nutritious options.

I don’t dispute the fact that we have a growing problem of childhood obesity and a serious rise in related diseases like Type 2 diabetes. Nevertheless, I recoil from the idea of the federal government â€" rather than parents â€" overseeing childhood nutrition. The fact is, government played no small role in creating our nutritional boondoggle, and now they’re doing their best to make a bad situation worse.

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