Why isn't there a fight against unhealthy food like is for drugs?

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I would have thought the reason for obesity is not enough moving and burning energy and consuming too much food. In particular foods with a lot of salt sugar and fat. Added to that metabolism.

Simplistic thinking is simplistic. How do you explain things like Atkins diet, where you can eat all the fat you want, do no exercise and still lose weight? How does salt make you fat? I'm not saying it doesn't - but can you explain how that works? Sure - it's said, that it causes heart disease, but again - that's not really an established fact and still has nothing to do with obesity. You can be thin and have heart problems. People used to say, that eggs raise your cholesterol levels and yet some of the cultures that consume huge amounts of eggs - like the Japanese - seem to have very low rates of heart disease.

I'm not even going to go into how metabolism plays into all this, because that seems to be just a trendy word people use, when they talk about diet, with no understanding what it means.

I think the first post makes a good point.

How so? The OP is talking about the "unhealthy food", like there's some kind of magical stuff, that makes you fat - mostly used by McDonalds, apparently - while other food doesn't. You yourself said, that eating "too much food" (whatever that means) makes you obese - so which is it?

I try and eat as healthy as I can but I've been told that even when I buy veg from the shops now it doesn't have as much nutrician in as it should because of how they farm veg these days.

LOL... Yeah - that sounds like non-scientific horse-sh*t. Who told you that? Some hippy, trying to sell you some "organic" nonsense? How do "they" farm veg these days, that makes it different from the same varieties of plants cultivated in "ye olden times"?

Plus the countless other ways farms and supermarkets save money and increase produce.

Again - what are those ways and how do they cause obesity? I'm not saying it's impossible - I'm just saying you're providing no evidence, just hear-say and old wives' tales. Just like most people do, when they talk about nutrition.

People like simple answers, even if they're unconfirmed, or just plain wrong. There's a lot more to the way our bodies manage fat, than what you are suggesting - like the amount of sleep we get, the frequency of meals, hormones and more. Fight against "unhealthy foods" is essentially fight against windmills.