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The problem is, that you can't legislate away people's vices. It didn't work with Alchohol in the 20's and it's not working with drugs today. I know we are talking about food, but for many people, junk food is the drug of choice to self medicate.

Once society moved away from being an agro based society and turned to centralized food supply, the die were cast. People eat the wrong things because of many reasons, but the underlying main cause is psychological self medicating. If that weren't true, when things go bad, people wouldn't dash to the fridge and start wolfing down ice cream, cookies or driving through McDonald's for a late night bag of comfort food.

Obesitiy is much more complex than what I have simply laid out of course, but bottomline is we are making choices. And those choices are not good for the most part or we people of weight would not be people of weight. We'd look "Normal" and be a lot healthier.