McCain is now a very public supporter of the Bush-Cheney ticket.

we need to stop making healthy living a fad in America, and start making it a way of life.

I hope you will take a look at that and think about it, and perhaps think about talking about, at least, having some regulations on how we advertise junk food to kids.

I mean, the portions of food are getting immense. It's just staggering how much they put on a plate now for you to eat, as if that's desirable.

Senator Harkin, you've helped us with that in the past, and greatly expanded our teen programming at 21 cities across the State.

So we have to have better information on moderation in eating those kinds of foods, and make sure that these are not the kind of things that you consume all the time.

But we've got to somehow provide the leadership and the bully pulpit and the incentives--whatever we can provide, incentive-wise, to local school districts--to provide that kind of physical activity for kids.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Medicare pays for all this patching, fixing, and mending, but we don't get to this step, of preventative healthcare.

In Sioux City--last weekend I was there--they've laid off five P.E. teachers because of cut on school funding.

And one in Iowa?

Because it is my opinion, having been, you know, in Agriculture--I've been chairman and ranking member of that committee--and also here, that your Department needs to have the majority of input into designing that food pyramid.

But we don't provide it for businesses to provide wellness programs for the workers.

We need to provide more fruits--fresh fruits, fruit drinks, healthy kinds of foods at places like that to send the proper example to our kids.

I feel better about it now. Thank you.

We've got to get more physical education back into schools.

But, Dean, we've got to start with kids early on.

And what a terrible signal to send to kids.