A joke from the book Good Omens is actually coming true. For those of you unfamiliar, Good Omens is a comedy written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman about the anti-Christ and the Four Horsemen set in modern times.  This was a line about Famine's plan: "CHOW(TM) contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman. MEALS(TM) was CHOW(TM) with added sugar and fat. The theory was that if you ate enough MEALS(TM) you would a) get very fat, and b) die of malnutrition."  Now, I have plenty of family and friends who work in the medical industry, and they've recently noticed an increasing number of cases where this has actually happened.  The patients are morbidly obese, but are getting hospitalized because they're malnourished from gorging on nothing but shitty food.