Introduction Healthy eating is being advocated for by almost every health organization across America. This has also increased awareness and consideration of the health impact that food portends to individuals. The healthy eating trends have aloes been seen to have changed drastically. This is attributed to their fact that people have become very knowledgeable about health and nutrition. As people in American continue consuming large amounts of food product that are unhealthy, ready-made, unnatural processed food stuffs, there is a already a backlash against this. The important healthy eating trends are seen in the areas of organic foods, vegetarian, juicing and raw foods. The government has been instrumental in driving the nation towards healthy eating. The purpose of the paper is to offer the context that the government can work in to promote healthy eating. This targets critical factors of concern which include the prices of the organic foods and prices. Many people complain that the cost is too high. The government needs to invest on food supply so that it can help the citizens to have healthy food. Food security is described as the attaining a state in which everybody is able to access nutritionally appropriate, culturally tolerable, harmless food regularly through local non-emergency means. Statement of Problem Food policy usually comes to dominate the operations of the government yet many presidential candidates in their campaigns do not consider food policy as a major campaign tool. This is because the federal policies that concern food have been able to keep the prices low especially corn, wheat and rice. The prices of organic food product is slightly higher that other food products because these foods are more nutritious and have been recommended by health experts (Wheelock 334). However the cost and availability of foods aren’t the only problems. After vehicles, food production and preparation seem to consume a greater percentage of gas or fuel that is spent by the state. Beside consumption of a lot of fuel, there is the effect on t he climate. These Diseases are also linked to the types of food that Americans consume. Research has shown that of the four leading cause of illness and death are food related; cancer, heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes (Wheelock 334). Considering that the US is involved in business with the rest of the world in many aspects and an impact on the US food security would affect the rest of the world and the trade policies will be shaken. Summary of the Current Debates Childhood obesity: Fast food meals are very popular because they are very tasty to resist, they are cheap, they are readily available, they are convenient and they are very fast (Binkley et al. 1039). According to research, eating only two fast food meals per week can very destructive. This is because they risk of getting obese is increased by 50%. For instance a breakfast meal with fries, nuggets, burgers can greatly elevate the risk as these foods contain high levels of sugar, refined floor, salt (sodium) and oils. This combination in itself is a health hazard (Bryan 1509). Despite of the fact that fast foods are readily available and expedient, many studies indicate that they have a low nutritional value (Pollan para. 3). In these studies, it is indicated that the fast foods have carboh