Americans are fat because our entire society is based around protecting "feelings".  It used to be that when you got overweight, people around you would let you know and that you would rectify the problem.  Nowadays expressing these facts "obviously" means that you are a "body shaming fascist" and that you "don't understand how hard it is to lose weight", and that these fatties all have "cundishuns" which prevent them from not stuffing their bloated faces 24/7.  It is perceived as a position of "privilege" to be thin, because fats believe what their peers/media tells them about weight; that it can't POSSIBLY be their fault and that you need to LOVE and ACCEPT and EMBRACE their bodies (god forbid).  If you're thin that means that you are either "starving" yourself (because food only correlates with weight when we're talking about thin people.  Fat people only eat salads and exercise 200 hours a week /s ), or that you were born with a genetic advantage which means you can "eat whatever you want and never gain weight."    It's a goddamn compendium of bullshit and mental gymnastics over here, and those of us willing to speak up about it have literally been shunned from mainstream forums and branded as "basically Nazis" for having the audacity to present the idea that the world is going in the wrong direction and should feel ashamed of their bodies for looking like garbage.    Our Government doesn't want to tell people that they should simply EAT LESS; they want to make the concept of weight loss into this mental run-around, multi-step, regimented bullshit where the fats are convinced that only "expensive" healthy foods and gym memberships and personal trainers will somehow solve all their problems.  We can't tell people to count calories either because people have no fucking idea how many ounces are in a pound or what a CUP of rice/pasta looks like, and everyone is too goddamn lazy to educate themselves.  They're all addicted to carbs, low quality proteins, and fatty/sugary sauces.  Feeling hungry is excruciating and should be avoided at ALL costs, because they've drowned their human emotion into food and replaced meaningful sensory input with high-calorie bullshit.  /rant