Can Government Control Obesity?

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Americans are eating too much of the wrong kinds of food, and obesity has become a pandemic. First Lady Michelle Obama is pushing healthier school lunches; Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned extra large sodas in New York City. We hear how their good intentions have created a furor over the role of government in American lives. Also, money changers and the police clash in Iran, and America's flawed fight against domestic terrorism.

Banner image: School lunch staff and students enjoy the new school lunch menu created to meet the new standards at the Yorkshire Elementary School in Manassas, Virginia on September 7, 2012. USDA photo by Lance Cheung