RANDOM THOUGHTS on health, health insurance, health care, and health control from the retirement lane. According to this article in the New York Times, the root cause of obesity is too much food ...

The 1970's saw a striking rise in the quantity of refined carbohydrates and fats in the U.S. food supply, which was paralleled by a sharp increase in the available calories and the onset of the obesity epidemic. Energy intake rose because of environmental push factors, i.e., increasingly available, cheap, tasty, highly promoted obesogenic [??] foods.

... and the solution is not enough nanny state.

[T]hree of the most ... health-saving measures: a 10 percent tax on unhealthy foods and drinks; more obvious nutrition labeling ... like a red, yellow or green traffic light on package fronts [skull & bones?]; and reduced advertising of “junk foods....”

May I also note that the 1970's saw the morphing of health insurance to government-mandated health care to now-government-mandated health control (ObamaCare)? Perhaps the root cause of obesity is too much government.