From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

Can government control obesity?

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

The daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

First Lady Michelle Obama has pushed cuts in calories for the federal lunch program. New York's Mayor Bloomberg

has banned extra large soft drinks. With predictions that half the country will be obese

by 2030, it's all about controlling a spreading pandemic. But there's also a backlash.

Students and teachers in Kansas went on YouTube saying, we are hungry.

A Republican congressman has introduced the No Hungry Kids Act.

Is it necessary for government to police the diets of America's children?

Will it work?

Is the nanny state just going too far?

On reporter's notebook, America's flawed fight against domestic

tamarism. First, here's the news. Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from

the Public Radio International Program Fund. Hello again, Warren-Anne, back with To the Point.

Americans are eating too much of the wrong kinds of food and obesity has become pandemic.

First Lady Michelle Obama is pushing healthier school lunches.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned extra-large sodas in New York City.

We'll hear how what may be the best of intentions have created a furor over the role of government in American lives.

On a reporter's notebook, a blistering Senate subcommittee report says the Department of Homeland

Security Centers for sharing data on counterterrorism have produced almost nothing useful

and violated civil liberties.

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