Nutrition and health care

It's a shame that the focus of the ongoing health care debate is on the treatment of symptoms and disease rather than the prevention of same.  As much as we all get a guilty pleasure when we see the "Walmartian" pictures showing the grossly overwieght shoppers at the store we love to hate, these unfortunate individuals should be driving the debate over health care.  These people and their children will overwhelm the system in a few decades unless they have a drastic change in the diet they consume.  Starting your day with a soda and a bowl of highly sweetened cereal and going downhill from there is not the way to maintain a healthy weight.  If the government would partner with fresh veg producers the same way it subsidizes  corn and cattle growers we would be on a much healthier path as a nation.