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Instructions: Now that your group has decided on an issue, you must demonstrate that there is a problem. You will turn in this research sheet completed with two articles attached that you showed that there is a problem

I. There is a problem in society today. That problem is: Americans are, on the whole, an unhealthy nation, and many of these health problems are related to consumption of fatty foods. Another part of this problem is that obese parents are passing on their negative eating habits to their children. Kids would benefit from a better option of healthy foods at school and a better idea //at a younger age// of what is good and bad to eat.

II. Facts that demonstrate that there is a problem are: The national average of obese children in the United States is 17%. Legislators want to find a way to warn children about the dangers of eating fattening foods and induce a tax, even placing warning labels similar to those on cigarette packs. Research showed that a 1% increase tax on junk food items would decrease purchase of these items by about 25%. A great place for this money to go would be to health care or nutritional education programs.

Eldridge, David. "States eye 'sin' taxation as salvation for budgets." //Washington Post// [New York] 17 Jan. 2011: A.1. //ProQuest Platinum//. Web. 15 Feb. 2011.

Vogel, Ed. "Legislator urges junk food tax." //Las Vegas Review Journal// 12 Feb. 2011, sec. B.1: 1. //ProQuest Platinum//. Web. 15 Feb. 2011.