Our opinion: We're too fat

Too many of us are too fat.
Those are harsh words, yes.
But so are "diabetes," "obesity," "infarction" and "death."
Where adults are concerned, there are limited things that government can do, or, in a free country, should do. People ought to be free to be themselves as far as is possible.
But in the United States today, government is the de facto payer of more than half of the medical bills incurred by Americans, either through Medicare, the CHIP insurance programs, other insurance operations or welfare.
So government ought to have something to say about how healthy or unhealthy we have become, since it is paying the bills.  Click here for full article.