Why are so many fat?

Yeah, well, it's never been a fair contest of simple "free will" given the enormous propaganda by corporations explicitly or implicitly claiming their foods are healthy - the cereal companies, for instance, market products absolutely heaving with sugar as "healthy" - it's unsurprising that far more people are eating crap now. It's going to get much worse before it gets better.

Just look at the sort of products that are given pride of place in your local supermarket. And almost always on some "special" so you can riddle yourself with 4000 calories of nutritionally awful "food" rather than 2000 calories. In Sweden, at least when I lived there in the 1990s, there was far, far, far less junk food for sale and it was tucked away in the back of the shop. That prioritising of healthy food over junk food is the norm across continental Europe. When I was young a 330ml can of Coke was a big treat on a Saturday. And when the 500ml 'Supercan' was introduced in Ireland in the early 80s, it was huge. People are not only drinking it/eating crap more often, but the amount of it is far greater than it was in the 80s.

There are progressive things which an Irish government could do to change the emphasis in favour of healthy products in shops in Ireland, but expect all the "free market" fundamentalists to spout on about "Nanny state" and the like. It really is an uneven battle between those firms promoting genuinely healthy food, and those frequently enormously wealthy firms promoting junk.

And you're certain to get 100 threads here bashing the brainwashing of has-been religious powers for every thread that mentions the brainwashing of our supposedly enlightened rampant consumer culture in 2018. All the bad things happened in the past!