Is our government contributing to the obesity problem with the food stamp program?

Hunger Hysteria: Examining Food Security and Obesity in America

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/11/H...

While the Food Stamp program has little positive effect on food quality, considerable evidence indicates that the program has the counter-productive effect of increasing obesity. For example, a recent study funded by USDA found that low-income women who participate in the Food Stamp program are substantially more likely to be obese than women in households with the same non-food stamp income who did not receive food stamps. Over the long term, food stamp receipt was found to increase obesity in men as well.[12] While other research has failed to confirm this link between food stamps and obesity, the possibility that this program has harmful effects remains quite real.[13]

In a sense yes but that is where the second group of liberals come in and tell them what to eat and then in turn tell us what to eat because they think of all the general public as being wards of the state.