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7. National Center for Health Statistics, “Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Extreme Obesity Among Adults: United States, Trends 1976–80 through 2005–2006” (2008), 3, available at link #21.

8. National Center for Health Statistics, “Health, United States, 2009: With Special Feature on Medical Technology” (2009), 303, available at link #22.

9. Eric A. Finkelstein et al., “Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates,” Health Affairs 28 (2009): 822.

10. Dana E. King et al., “Adherence to Healthy Lifestyle Habits in US Adults, 1988–2006,” American Journal of Medicine 122 (2009): 528, 530.

11. James E. Tillotson, “Food Brands: Friend or Foe?” Nutrition Today (March–April 2002): 78, 79.

12. For this dynamic described, see David Kessler, The End of Overeating (New York: Rodale, 2009), 12.

13. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (New York: Penguin Press, 2006), 104.

14. Ibid., 103–4.

15. Sarah Kate Coleman, “The Facts About High Fructose Corn Syrup,” Jan. 13, 2010, available at link #23.

16. James Bovard, “Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study in Corporate Welfare,” Cato Policy Analysis, Cato Institute (1995), 1, available at link #24.

17. Ibid.

18. Kenneth Bailey, “Congress’s Dairy Dilemma,” Regulation (Winter 2001): 32. There were eleven. There now are ten. See U.S. Dep’t of Agric., Econ. Res. Serv., Dairy: Policy (2009), available at link #25. See also Jasper Womach, “Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws,” Cong. Research Serv. Report for Congress, No. 97-905 (2005): 165, available at link #26.

19. Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity, The Buying of the Congress (New York: Avon Books, 1998), 227.

20. Larry Rohter, “Brazil’s Shrimp Caught Up in a Trade War,” New York Times, March 10, 2004. The government had found “dumping.” Mark Drajem, “U.S. Sets Shrimp Tariffs on Thailand, India, Ecuador, Brazil,” Bloomberg (July 29, 2004), available at link #27.

21. Chana Joffe-Walt, “Why U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying Brazilian Cotton Growers,” NPR, All Things Considered, Nov. 9, 2010, available at link #28.

22. David E. Sanger, “Dole at Forefront of Trade Battle to Aid Donor’s Banana Empire,” New York Times, Dec. 5, 1995, at A1, B9.

23. Brian M. Riedl, “Agriculture Lobby Wins Big in New Farm Bill,” Backgrounder No. 1534, Heritage Foundation (April 9, 2002), available at link #29.

24. Press Release, White House, “President Announces Temporary Safeguards for Steel Industry” (Mar. 5, 2002), available at link #30. See also “Counting the Cost of Steel Production: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Trade of the H. Comm. on Ways and Means, 106th Cong.” (1999) (statement of Daniel Griswold, Cato Inst.), available at link #31.

25. Brink Lindsey, Mark Groombridge, and Prakash Loungani, “Nailing the Homeowner: The Economic Impact of Trade Protection of the Softwood Lumber Industry,” Trade Pol’y Analysis no. 11, Cato Inst. (July 6, 2000), available at link #32.

26. Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (New York: Crown Business, 2003), 230.

27. Brian M. Riedl, “Seven Reasons to Veto the Farm Bill,” Backgrounder No. 2134, Heritage Foundation (May 12, 2008), 1–2, available at link #33.

28. Brian M. Riedl, “How Farm Subsidies Harm Taxpayers, Consumers, and Farmers, Too,” Backgrounder No. 2043, Heritage Foundation (June 20, 2007), 8.

29. Ibid., 8–9. The subsidies here are for the period 1995–2005.

30. Rajan and Zingales, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, 229–30.

31. Jason Lee Steorts, “The Sugar Industry and Corporate Welfare,” Review, July 18, 2005, available at link #34. See also “Sugar Manufacturing Industry Profile,” First Research (2011).

32. Bovard, “Archer Daniels Midland”; Chris Edwards, “Agricultural Regulations and Trade Barriers Downsizing the Federal Government,” available at link #35.

33. See World Wildlife Foundation Global Freshwater Program, “Sugar and the Environment: Encouraging Better Management Practices in Sugar Production” (2005), 9, available