Most receiving benefits should get a reduction because many including children are obese.  They aren’t buying the necessities; they are buying junk food.

If I were running the show, I'd put this entire country on a freaking diet.

Back when I was growing up, morbidly obese people were few and far between.  Fast-forward to today, it's become commonplace.  I had a cousin by marriage in the mid-1970s who was afflicted in that fashion, and she definitely stood out in a crowd.  Nowadays, you can go to Walmart (yes, I know...) on any random Saturday and you will run into at least ten people in her situation, including one or two who would make her look positively svelte.

And these people are of all races except Oriental and South Asian.  (Oddly enough, Hispanics, while sometimes corpulent, seem never to get that heavy either.)

The China Study

Sir Robert McCarrison used rats for his experiments (with regard to food). Some were fed on the diet of the Hunza people and of certain other tribes whose health was remarkable. These rats prospered exceedingly. Disease was almost unknown.…Another set of rats were fed on the diet of the poorer classes in England (white bread, margarine, sweet tea, boiled vegetables, tinned meats, and jams). They grew badly. They got neurasthenia and bit their attendants. After only sixteen days they began to eat each other. They also got many diseases, and in addition lassitude, loss of hair, boils, bad teeth, and crooked spines. They became terribly like us.

My grandma, mother of 10, would open a single can of peas for dinner (in addition to the main course).
My other grandma, one of 8, had neighbors with 13 children; they'd eat beans every dinner, made every way imaginable (in soup, pasta fagioli, casserole, etc.).