I find it interesting that you assume the issue is related to hunger. Most overweight and obese persons I know are overweight because they are using food as a

I find it interesting that you assume the issue is related to hunger. Most overweight and obese persons I know are overweight because they are using food as a drug. This has nothing to do with hunger. Shoveling fistfuls of Reese's Puffs into your face because you're bored, sad, stressed, angry, etc. is not to relieve hunger pains. It's to get high. 40+ years ago these people would have been chain smokers instead. Want to fix the obesity crisis? Design a cheap, socially-acceptable, ritualized drug which can be consumed using little-to-no energy in near-limitless quantities and has no preexisting history of being considered "bad".