I think most of the comments in this thread miss out the fundamental issue, which is bad food not only tastes better than "good food" it also often is cheaper a

I think most of the comments in this thread miss out the fundamental issue, which is bad food not only tastes better than "good food" it also often is cheaper and crucially is more convenient. Convenient food, that tastes good but is bad for you will beat out inconvenient food that tastes "ok" and is healthy for you. For a lot of people cooking is just more work and if they've got the choice and the money they'll order take out or buy pre-made ready meals. Moaning about sugar and advertising is just tinkering around the edges, to me if you want to solve this problem you've got to make eating healthy as convenient if not more convenient as eating badly.