beliefs that their weight problems have nothing to do with their personal habits Eating garbage food is a personal habit, but the food is also engineered to be

beliefs that their weight problems have nothing to do with their personal habits Eating garbage food is a personal habit, but the food is also engineered to be not very filling, high in calories, and mildly to strongly addictive (more profit!), so how do we balance personal responsibility in the face of adversaries engineering addiction? instead placing the blame on the quality of the foods they've been eating. Except, the food quality/provenance is the problem. Go to middle america and watch obese people at restaurants. Most of them are ordering more obese-enabling foods. Giant sandwiches, giant cheese fries, giant cokes refilled three times per meal. A lot of people just don't have the training or education to connect what they eat to their physical body—bodies are magical things that "just exist" and "just happen" with no responsibility in any direction. You can't get an obese person (100+ pounds overweight) down to "normal" just by exercising more and eating less of already addictive bad-for-you foods. You've got to remove all the crap from their diet and essentially de-program them from a lifetime of bad habits. Oh, and we need to do this on a national (even global) scale on the order of hundreds of millions of people.