In Mark Bittman's article "Bad Food? Tax It and Subsidize Vegetables",  he suggest the idea of taxing unhealthy foods, such as; soda, fries, chips, and doughnut. Bittman believes that by taxing these food it will discourage the purchase of them. Companies don't care about the consumers' health, only their money. So corporations continue to advertise and influence Americans to bu and eat bad foods. By creating this food tax, it is estimated to generate $13 billion a year income and reduce consumption by 24 percent. In Alice Waters and Katrina Heron's article "No Lunch Left Behind", it introduces the idea that the National School Lunch Program is not a good program at all. In this program it gives $9 billion for school cafeterias, but that money isn't just for food but other services in the cafeteria. Schools offer children unhealthy and bad quality foods that are pre made and heated before serving. Many of the foods sold fail to meet nutritional standards. We start teaching our children unhealthy eating habits at a young age. The food served to them is no shock to the rising child obesity rates.

My essay is on food related diseases in America and one source I found to be very informational is the movie What the Health on Netflix by director Kip Anderson. It has a lot of information the relation between the food we eat and the diseases it causes.