This seems useful. However, some people, both inside and outside medicine, believe that negative consequences' education can be a solution to the overweight/obe

This seems useful. However, some people, both inside and outside medicine, believe that negative consequences' education can be a solution to the overweight/obesity issue, even though after 40 years we've seen near no positive correlation. We've seen some positive outcomes from interventions (e.g. mental health treatments, actionable plans, etc.) but the funding/resources for those continue to be scarce. So the trend keeps falling back to education in the professional setting or bullying in the social one as a "solution" because it is free, ignoring the lack of efficacy. I actually think our "personal moral failing" thinking is a large impediment to actionable solutions for society, because instead of looking at WHY even 18-year-olds have gone from below 20 BMI in 1879 to over 26 BMI in 2022[0] we just go around and around in circles about how it is a personal responsibility issue not a systemic one, while the data continues to show that it is across all of society. We continue to subsidize sugar substitutes (corn turned into HFCS) at the production side but sugar taxes to offset the subsidies are seen as "attacks on freedom." The US's overproduction of HFCS has even lowered the international price of sugar indirectly. Because sugar is so cheap, and so addicting, in our capitalist system the manufacturer willing to exchange other ingredients (e.g. fats, proteins, etc) for sugars may be both cheaper AND taste better, even if ultimately it isn't satiating. So we have a bunch of foods which are high in sugar relative to historical norms or that simply never existed because they exist to act as a "sugar delivery system" (e.g. soda). After the UK introduced a soda tax (SDIL), we can see that due to both manufacturers reformulating their drinks AND changes in consumer behavior it resulted in lower calorie intakes that they did NOT make up by buying alternative sources of sugar (e.g., candy)[1] [0] https://www.calciumhealth.com/the-american-obesity-epidemic-how-did-we-get-here/ https://www.calciumhealth.com/the-american-obesity-epidemic-... [1] https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/sugar-tax https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/...