If only we weren’t so lazy, obesity wouldn’t be a problem.
That seems to be the assumption behind Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! program which aims to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.
But as with many government programs, Let’s Move! avoided addressing the real cause of obesity. Because that would require taking on the food industry and its quest to foist ever more junk food products on unsuspecting Americans, especially children.
Now a group of British, South African, and American researchers have published a report that places the blame for the obesity epidemic squarely on the junk food industry. You cannot, they explain, exercise away the effects of a bad diet.
