Considering that a hugh reason for obesity in America today is slavish adherence to the low fat regime and the food pyramid, pushed by our government, one would have to be an idiot, which I assume Kondracke is, to ask for government to legislate our weight.
But I have a solution that can't fail, that should be sure to please all rationalists, socialists, and big government types like Kondracke: prohibitively tax all food, we won't be able to afford obesity, except in our already top heavy government.
And why stop at obesity, just think, we can mold all of society to a government ideal merely by intelligent use of taxation.