[Cromwell1900]

For sure Genetics have not changed over the Generations, unlike the level of Obesity which just seems to keep shooting up and up and up. For me if you had to chose the biggest contributing factors for simplicity sake, you would have to start talking about the food that we have access to, and the choices people at risk make. Not Genetics as i think it's a bit of a red hearing which is only relevant in a tiny fraction of cases and yet it often gets thrown in to muddy the waters.

Easy to prepare food, necessary since Women & Men both Work, else often too lazy to Work OR Cook, contains to many Additives, Sugars & Fats. There can only be the Manufacturers to blame for having such low standards for us to chose from. Thank God for Freedom of choice.

As for Choice. School Kids will and always have been bullied at school, tempting them to comfort eat. With Our new Super! Dhoopa! Food Industry and Super Markets we've never been so well provided for in terms of quantities, and the Choice to over eat never been so available, and Kids do over eat more now than Granny could ever of done. What i'm trying to say is that People haven't changed, our options have and some of us aren't coping with it as well as others. Should it be that the Food Industry is Forced to offer nothing but Healthy Choices? instead of stating their Food is Healthy in moderation therefore missing the point that often Depressed People eat over-moderatly. Surely you would need to care or feel responsibility to get that point i think.

It's up to the individual to make the right Choices and if they don't it's up to society to decide if people should be prevented from consuming things that are bad for them. Same argument as Smoking, Drinking, Drugs. Prevented as in Not on Sale. That would inpinge on Freedom of Choice though imo Freedom of Choice ain't all it's cracked up to be