People have a natural tendency to want to feel good. Eating is a feel good thing.
It’s Un-American to have constant pressure, anxiety, upon us every waking moment of ones life by government fiat.
People eat to excess to feel good, feel better about themselves, feel good to combat the pressure, the anxiety they feel constantly either physically, or mentally that is caused subtly, or not by government.
American citizens don’t even realize they are gaining weight as time goes by, and don’t realize they are doing so as they are under pressures NOT of their own making, but pressures they don’t want put upon them by government nanny staters.
Home, on the job, commuting, every activity is governed, and overgoverned, and folks are anxious. When folks are under pressure, anxious they look for release. They eat. They get fat.
Obesity Rate = f(EBT recipients)
Never forget the millions who traded tobacco for a fat body.