What Really Makes Us Fat

Just read an interesting article in the Guardian: This comment is a response to the quoted sentences at the end of the text /why-our-food-is-making-us-fat

"The industry is tied into a complex matrix of other interests: drugs, chemicals, even dieting products. The panoply of satellite industries that make money from obesity means the food industry's relationship to obesity is an incredibly complex one." 

Complex it is not. Take Unilever, an enormous consumer goods company that produces Pot Noodles (nutritional value '0',) Peperami (high in fat) Several Ice Cream brands (tons of sugar) and guess what else? Yes! Slim Fast (chemical load) Basically none which are healthy. Yet their website nutrition section reads like a health farm's.  Telling the truth isn't profitable. Governments should have clear and strict guidelines to Corporate Social Responsibility Statements and consumer goods companies should start taking real responsibility instead of blowing smoke to screen their greed and lack of integrity. Sure all that could be argued that people are in charge of their own diet and should know better than to eat foods that are high in fat. Yes they should and by and large, do. But what about the sugar? The article point out aptly how much publicity there is concerning the fat content in our food but little or none about how much of it is replaced by high calorie sugar, glucose, fructose and unhealthy artificial sweeteners that increase the appetite. I like to know what goes into my food. I also prefer to make my meals. This isn't so with everyone and even impossible for some, such as kids and those who were brought up on crap and completely addicted to junk. But I see intelligent, educated adults who simply cannot seem to control their weight. The NHS spends billions on related diseases the cost which in my opinion should be shared by large consumer companies, such as Unilever, who not only churn out the bad stuff but promoting term to the pliable public.  Or, bring in the Fat Tax. People with BMI over 30 (which is considered 'obese' should be taxed to contribute towards their treatment. I'd take it even a step further; those who enable the clinically obese to become such, should be charged in criminal court just like drug dealers. Over-feeding food to someone who cannot feed themselves because they're too fat to move, surely is no different from supplying narcotics to a junkie.

I'll be looking at the sugar and sweetener content in my shop bought grub from now on.