Literally everyone knows that you don't actually have to eat more than you need to survive. You can't get out of elementary school without knowing this. Calories in > calories out = weight gain. It's basic knowledge every citizen knows.
You presume better results from education than might be warranted.
A lot of people do not make that simply logical connection between the facts you mention and their own health and mortality. They know it all, but do not do the math.
Which is, as I said previously, that they don’t care. It’s nothing nefarious about some company or engineering. They just don’t care.
well, with fully functioning adults, obviously they have their own freedom of choice and responsibility for their actions.
And a toddler does not, not really.
which raises the question
where is the dividing line for a person having actual adult responsibility
I think of those photos of obese children. even obese preschoolers. Where is their responsibility?
It's not a weakness. It's lack of care.
Literally everyone knows that you don't actually have to eat more than you need to survive. You can't get out of elementary school without knowing this. Calories in > calories out = weight gain. It's basic knowledge every citizen knows.
They just don't care.
I promise you that if there were a magical disease with an accurate diagnosis of "If you're still obese in X months, you absolutely will die" and the literally the only cure was to lose that weight, that pretty much everyone would stop stuffing their faceholes. Overnight.
It is not more complicated than that. They just don't care. Anything else is a complication.
Everything else is a story to make people feel better.