"If You're Going to Do Anything About It, You Have to Take on the Food Industry, Which No One Wants to Do"

"There is no national strategy. There is no systemswide approach, even as researchers increasingly recognize that obesity is a disease that is driven not by lack of willpower, but a modern society and food system that's almost perfectly designed to encourage the overeating of empty calories, along with more stress, less sleep and less daily exercise, setting millions on a path to poor health outcomes that is extremely difficult to break from."

Helena Bottemiller Evich at Politico writes that "[i]n Washington, there has been no such wake-up call about the link between diet-related diseases and the pandemic."