Rightey wrote:Not if you die of heart failure first!
Also there's lots of health benefits to actually working out/exercising that just being skinny won't have.
We really should focus more on prevention but the problem is it's
1) hard to gather metrics about how successful these programs really are.
2) Fatties will get upset that we are targeting prevention rather than helping them out.
3) Policy wise it's hard to argue we should be investing in basketball courts rather than more hospital beds.
None of those things are the fundamental problem. You could cover the planet in sports centres, but a subset of people just don't like to exercise and still wouldn't go. Similarly, it's already broadly common knowledge that having loads of high calorie sugary snacks will make you fat, but people eat them for reasons perpendicular to weight control (to get through a long day at work, or to make themselves feel better emotionally, or to eat something as quickly as possible, or...).
Fat people are fat every day, so many are used to it and prefer that status quo to making lifestyle changes that maybe take a source of happiness away or make them engage in activities they find boring or uncomfortable or even humiliating.
They'll take an anti-obesity pill though.