bobbyw24
09-22-2011, 07:48 AM
The federal government is spending more than $1 billion a year on subsidies for food additives that have been linked to obesity, according to a new study from an Iowa-based research group.
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“The rise in childhood obesity has many causes, but one of the most important is the increased prevalence of high-fat, heavily sweetened junk food,” the Iowa Public Interest Research Group (IPIRG) says in the opening to its report on the study, which found that American taxpayers are making the problem worse by subsidizing junk food ingredients.
For example, the IPIRG study, “Apples to Twinkies,” discovered that $16.9 billion of the $260 billion spent on agriculture subsidies between 1995 and 2010 went specifically to food manufacturers that make four of the most common food additives — corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, and soy or hydrogenated vegetable oils.
Read more on Newsmax.com: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/Obesity-taxpayers-Twinkies-Apples/2011/09/22/id/411888
report at
https://www.iowapirg.org/uploads/21/52/21528e29bfa164e212ed743cef8086a3/Applies-to-Twinkies-vIA.pdf
http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/images/twinkie_the_kid.jpg
“The rise in childhood obesity has many causes, but one of the most important is the increased prevalence of high-fat, heavily sweetened junk food,” the Iowa Public Interest Research Group (IPIRG) says in the opening to its report on the study, which found that American taxpayers are making the problem worse by subsidizing junk food ingredients.
For example, the IPIRG study, “Apples to Twinkies,” discovered that $16.9 billion of the $260 billion spent on agriculture subsidies between 1995 and 2010 went specifically to food manufacturers that make four of the most common food additives — corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, and soy or hydrogenated vegetable oils.
Read more on Newsmax.com: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/Obesity-taxpayers-Twinkies-Apples/2011/09/22/id/411888
report at
https://www.iowapirg.org/uploads/21/52/21528e29bfa164e212ed743cef8086a3/Applies-to-Twinkies-vIA.pdf