I don't know if it is just the fat journalists injecting their own problems into things in a lame attempt to force society to be attracted to them.  If you want to go tinfoil hat: It could be that the elites want us all fat and docile. Kind of strange though, when you consider it, because this seriously puts a damper on our military readiness. If we went into a state of total war right now relying on the draft, our populace would take too long to get to a point of physical fitness to defend ourselves. So it makes you wonder, are they promoting this specifically so we can't defend ourselves from another countries invasion? If they are just doing it to make us easy to control, the elites are putting themselves at risk from foreign invasion.