You bring up 2 pretty damn good points.    Don't say that the government doesn't really care about the health of the people, that's too generous. The reality is, they WANT people sick! The amount of diseases that are either caused by or worsened by obesity is staggering. Not to mention, there are other diseases that while not 100% caused by obesity (e.g. cancer) we see a dramatic increase in the risk of developing it if you are overweight. All of this adds up to a whole lot of money being paid out to insurance companies and healthcare, PLUS various food industries, such as corn and sugar, that lards consume by the bucketful. I mean shit, look at how the sugar industry manipulated research to 'show' sugar was harmless. Boom, diabetes skyrockets... Why wouldn't they want to perpetrate that??    Fats are good at 'activism', and b y activism we mean sitting on the internet whining and playing the fucking Cundishuns Bingo. As long as we remain fat as a country, we're less likely to mobilize and do the shit like Hong Kong protesters did, because over 75% of the population can't or WONT get off the fucking couch.    You can say that again - I'm not all that old (<25) and yet the amount of kids that I see who're medicated and uWu ADHD!!1! compared to when I was younger is disgusting. Bet you fucking anything that if those poor bastards got a couple 15 minute blocks of time during school and another 30+ minutes at home/after school, weather permitting (aka what was 'normal' or the 'minimum' when I was in elementary) we'd see WAY less cases of 'ADD' or 'ADHD'...  half of these kids don't need drugs, they need to be able to go run off that excess energy...