The original cited article states: The language is broad enough that a president's administration could even ban bake sales, but Secretary Tom Vilsack signaled

The original cited article states: 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. So this is a matter of principle: whether the federal government should be able to do this. 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. 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.)