Just as one case example, snack foods have been ubiquitously available worldwide for a long time and there are countries that have somehow managed to retain a r

Just as one case example, snack foods have been ubiquitously available worldwide for a long time and there are countries that have somehow managed to retain a relatively healthy lifestyle without resorting to yet more government regulations. I think banning is a fairly unimaginative legislative knee-jerk response. For example what if we genetically engineered snack foods to be more like pistachios. The amount of effort required to open up a single pistachio often results in the expenditure of an equal number of calories to the actual energy content of the food itself. Thus it acts as a natural net negative caloric food. Also I'm not sure how much we should be taking from the ancient Greeks considering that pederasty was commonly practiced there.