The city of Milwaukee recently received a $360,000 grant to study if removing sugary drinks and instilling physical activity at intercity community centers will help combat obesity which is a common ailment among the city’s poorest residents. Under the auspice of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Project, a total of $33 million dollars is being spent by the federal government in 50 cities nation wide to prove what? That sugar is bad? That leading a sedentary lifestyle is the root of most obesity? These are already well established facts. There is no need for multimillion dollar grants to confirm the need to be active and eat a sensible diet to maintain a healthy body weight. Community centers can feel free to invest in physical activity programs without this assanign, uneccessary research. The tax and spend federal government can keep their millions of dollars and invest it where it is needed most: paying down the massive federal debt that such wasteful policies have generated over the years.