Should the government have any role in fighting obesity or improving the health of its citizens?

[Brainstormy]

80. I dispute this

While I don't discount the factors you name, we now have more scientific verification for physical craving as a dynamic of food addiction than existed with regard to alcoholism and other drug addictions when they were first designated as substance use disorders. Junk food and fast food is addictive. Highly processed foods get us hooked through a combination of carefully engineered manipulations created in state-of-the-art laboratories. Please read David Kessler's The End of Overeating. He's the former FDA commissioner who is best known for his efforts to investigate and regulate the tobacco industry, and for his accusation that cigarette makers intentionally manipulated nicotine content to make their products more addictive.

Add this to the fact that junk food, not good food, is subsidized and thus made artificially more inexpensive and you have obesity becoming very much a class issue and an economic one.

I think there's a lot the government can do.