corporations to try to do voluntary things. if you look at how much money, because it sort of with the obama administration, all the science you re talking about that has shown how addictive it is. there s a push to do something about this. in the obesity trends, saw the food industry doubling its lobbying money. you saw them reclassify pizza as a vegetable. you saw them kill the kill this sugar salt and fat, limits in marketing to children, on the other hand you see let s move and voluntary labelling. taco bell was trying to get food stamps to be able to spend it on tacos. the affordable care act is a significant victory in this regard, not only did it fund preventive care, which went into making sure that people knew what they were putting in their bodies. but it also advanced the availability of nutritional standards for people going out and purchasing food. you could see exactly what you were ingesting, and those are
low and reach high and you re going to find those better for you cereals, et cetera. i do want to talk, there is, i mean there s obviously something consumers can do in terms of being more vigilant. but there s the role that government plays and we ll get into that discussion. first and foremost. there s the money that goes into the corn industry and the money that goes to the sugar industry, in terms of taxpayer subsidies for junk food in the year 2011, 1.over $1 billion went to junk food ingredients, the cheetos are like clouding my mind, since 1995, $18.2 billion was spent on junk food. between 1995 and 2006, the government paid out $56 billion in corn subsidies. not only do we pay on that end, we pay on the back end. if you think about the whole conversation about our long-term debt. it s a health care spending problem. and the people who are most panicked about these obesity
with the cafferty file. from the lone star state you are today, right? dallas, texas. a nice place but it s raining pretty heavily here. we re in the mobile the situation room today. the mobile the situation room. we travel everywhere. government might soon be in charge of something else. tracking how fat or skinny american children are. under the healthy choices act, states would receive federal grants to track the body mass index of children between the ages of 2 and 18. the bill would require doctors to collect this information, then pass it to the state government, which would then pass it to the federal government. the bill says that federal officials would use the data then to identify obesity trends in different parts of the country and how the trends change depending on gender and socioeconomic status. don t we know this already? if a child s body mass index is greater than the 95th