Originally Posted by tore

Certainly capitalist society is to blame to some extent for obesity. It creates class differences in resources and what we eat and, as you write, every day we are constantly bombarded with commercials trying to tempt us into making bad lifestyle choices. I feel like when it comes down to each one of us, I generally think we have to take personal responsibility. But when we're talking about obesity as an epidemic and how it taxes a nation etc, then one can blame society and hopefully exercise ones political power in order to change things.