The obesity crisis is a global problem, someday we are going to round up the ‘fat acceptance’ people and hold them responsible like the other war criminals.
Who owns our bodies? If it's <i>us</i>, the individual <i>operating</i> the body, then telling your doctor to provide advice based on "im not eating less, I'm not gonna quit smoking / snorting 3g of coke a day / whatever" isn't unreasonable.<p>If "Society, "God" or "Government" own the body, someone other than the person in it; then we've got a massively silly situation.<p>Lots and lots of noise has been made over the past 100 years avoiding that central question. Doctors and Governments <i>want</i> to own our bodies, but don't want to say so outright, because they fear many people will object to the notion.