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

[paulpablo]

I am relating to anecdotal evidence in a way, I've always noticed people who have had a problem with their weight have eaten too much food, namely fast food containing lots of salt sugar and fat. And they didn't burn enough of it off.[...]

And have you never met people, who eat fast food, don't exercise and yet remain skinny? Because I have. My brother, for example, always ate (and drank more alcohol) more than I did, never did any sports, while I did and throughout most of his life remained thinner than I was. This has changed with age, though and now - in our late 30's - he seems to be putting on weight, while I seem to be losing it, even though his line of work requires more physical activity than mine. Of course - neither of us was ever obese. But I've known number of people, who never put on weight, regardless of their life-style and some, that put on weight, due to medical conditions, like hypothyroidism, or insomnia. Which is why I keep insisting - it's not as simple as one would like.

And sure, obese people tend not to exercise much - because it's quite a lot more painful to jog while carrying extra 100+ pounds. And they tend to eat more, because what else are they supposed to do? Society tells them, they're worthless, nobody wants to f*ck them, so eating is one of the few pleasures they have left...

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But I wasn't talking specifically about obesity when I mentioned that, I was just relating that back to the main topic in general which is food regulations.

Fair enough. However, if we're talking about food regulations - it's not quite so simple to fight obesity with legislation, especially if you're right and obesity (or generally weight problems) stems mainly from over-eating. Because in that case - the same substances, that we need to consume (in other words - food) cause obesity.

As I said, what I'm talking about isn't just obesity but it does include that.

I would never claim that regulations could prevent obesity.  Any food can really be made to be unhealthy, even if shops were forced to just provide healthy food someone can still pour sugar all over it and make it unhealthy.

I'm not a politician, nutricianist, or scientist so I'm not saying I have a definite plan of what exact regulations should be in place.

But I don't think it's crazy to possibly look into some regulations against things such as advertising extremely sugary food to children, what additives are being put into foods, salt, sweeteners, preservitives.
And again just to make it clear, this isn't all about obesity, just about health implications in general which I'm by no means an expert in.

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@OP

I suspect it has a great deal to do with shitty food being extremely profitable.  What with our government being a wholly owned subsidiary of Lobbyists Inc., what else would you expect?

Drugs are extremely profitable too. A lot of this convo reminds me of that southpark episode where KFC is illegal and the resterants are replaced by marijuana shops.