Date: Fri Sep 17 23:01:05 1999 From: Dreom@AOL.COM (Dewaine Reo McBride) Subject: Fat-food tax urged To: LIBERTARIANS@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Reply-To: LIBERTARIANS@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU (Libertarian Students at the University of Arizona)
Fat-food tax urged in war on obesity U.S. flab viewed as 'ticking bomb' By Usha Lee McFarling Knight Ridder Newspapers Sept. 16, 1999 http://www.azcentral.com/news/0916obese.shtml WASHINGTON - Obesity experts offered a radical agenda Wednesday to rduce the growing ranks of overweight Americans, including proposals to tax high-fat foods and make insurers cover weight loss programs.
Calling the fat problem a "ticking time bomb in the health care system," many experts who gathered here for the first annual conference on obesity and public policy proposed several activist solutions. Among them: lengthening the school day to give kids more exercise, spending a lot more money to research the causes of obesity as well as the "fat tax" and expanded insurance for weight loss treatments.