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Maine aims to ban junk food if you use food stamps - chairman - 11-24-2015
Maine’s top health official on Monday proposed banning the purchase of soda and candy under the federal aid program known as food stamps, describing the move as needed to counter an “alarming epidemic of obesity†among the state’s poor.
In their formal request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which must approve any change in rules related to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, state officials said the shift would help control the rising costs of healthcare for overweight, low-income patients.
A 2012 study by a University of Maine researcher put the annual medical costs of obesity in Maine at $452.7 million.
Re: Maine aims to ban junk food if you use food stamps - Astdua - 11-24-2015
I think overweight low-income citizens will rather starve than not eat their addiction.
Re: Maine aims to ban junk food if you use food stamps - ketchim - 11-24-2015
Why ??
Americans are FAT , Obese and PROUD
FLAGS are now being made oversized : to wrap themselves in
