Obesity Epidemic Needs A Social Approach Urge Scientists

Battle royale of the excusinators!

In this corner, the social excusinators. In the others, the genetic, hormonal, cultural, infectious, etc., excusinators.

And while they battle it out, the public loses.

"Friel and colleagues discuss a range of political, economic and social pressures, including commerce, trade, living and working conditions, that differ among countries and affect people's behaviour, their weight, and ultimately, their health, in different ways. They consider, for instance, the impact of food subsidies, advertising, urban planning, social structure, and employment.

They suggest that food subsidies have distorted food supplies so that the less healthy foods, for instance those high in saturated fats, are favoured over healthier options, and global companies have flooded the market with cheap, energy dense food, devoid of nutritional value. Supermarket bulk purchasing and supersized portions are now the norm, replacing the habit of making smaller purchases that used to take place at family run stores."

Of course, they talk about everything except the real reason, too many Calories in than out, and the culpability of the true offenders:

Governments
Government Agencies
Researchers (like these)
Dietitians
Trainers
Nutritionists
The Media
Diet Experts
Diet Gurus
Big Pharma
Oprah, Barbara Walters and other media giants (literally and figuratively)
The Sick Care Industry (docs, medical centers, etc.)
The Fat People Rescue Industry
Fat People, themselves

They also repeat the banal canard of "healthy" foods:

"In both high income and the "transitioning countries", wrote the authors, energy density and fat intake have gone up, and although on average food prices have gone down, in the richer countries the healthier foods generally cost more than the less healthy ones."

These, as well as most of the other fat researchers can be easily cured of their own overweight/obesity by giving themselves an enema.

The weight they will lose will put their BMIs well below 18.5.