The original cited article states:<p><i>The language is broad enough that a president's administration could even ban bake sales, but Secretary Tom Vilsack signaled in a letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., this week that he does not intend to do that.</i><p>So this is a matter of principle: whether the federal government <i>should</i> be able to do this.<p>Does anyone know if this would allow prohibition of these sorts of activities, or simply withholding of funding? The destinction may not matter in practice (see: the drinking age) but does in principle.<p>FWIW The obesity legislaton "wouldn't apply to after-hours events". Bake sales at my high school were always held after hours. I infer that they were successful because they often nearly sold out, and because they continued to hold them. (I don't know if they'd do any better without that restriction.)