The problem is that we are plausibly looking at the result of a change over the last thirty or fifty year in the quality of what's considered the normal diet, n

The problem is that we are plausibly looking at the result of a change over the last thirty or fifty year in the quality of what's considered the normal diet, notably normalizing calories through the consumption of sugary drinks but also a variety of other things. This has had the side-effect of an obesity epidemic. Now, what are we doing? * Getting people to stop consuming sugary drinks and other very unhealthy items (maybe that would require drugs at this point)? * Or offer people drugs so this side-effect of an unhealthy diet can be avoided? If we're offer a way to continue a bad diet without this effect, it seems very likely further bad effects will appear X many years from now from a combination of the drugs and the bad diet. Because virtually all drugs taken forever accumulate side-effects over since the body did evolve to process them (these drugs may indeed be needed at times but the point remains).