America's obesity is something that, for the sake of conflict, I avoid. My wife and I have been to the US many, many times. We loved it, we were always, and I mean always, made to feel welcome. So commenting on, what is the subject of this thread, pains me. It is the diet, of course it is, but it's the companies, like the tobacco companies, that create the addiction of an unhealthy diet. I don't want to say too much, as I have said, America is a country that my wife and I both love, a country where we have been made to feel most welcome.
The first "biggy" that I ever saw was a young man, so big was he, that he walked with a backward lean, much the same way an expectant mother does in the latter stages of pregnancy, he did so to counterbalance his enormous stomach. He wore a baggy pair of shorts, they probably enhanced the size of his thighs, but even so, it was impossible to see daylight between his legs anywhere above the knee. The sight depressed me. How can it be so?
The answer is simple, the companies responsible should be treated in much the same way as the tobacco companies and the cause of obesity be highlighted in the same way that we know of the link between smoking and cancer. Whilst some have slipped through the net, many smokers of yesteryear are non smokers today. If draconian measures can succeed with tobacco, then why can it not succeed with diet?