One of my favorite childhood treats growing up in an old log cabin in West Virginia was composed entirely of butter and sugar mixed up and spread on white bread. Oh, what a treat on a cold winter day when you needed some quick to fix energy when energy bars didn´t exist. My sister and I grew up on completely unhealthy foods like this and beans and hamburger gravy and fatback and not only survived to eighteen but were really slender and healthy.

Now sixty odd years later it has not held true as far as weight or health goes but we are still alive and kicking. We spent a lot of time outdoors in the snow and in the summertime up in the woods exploring and keeping a low profile.

Food Nazis are trying for a "One size fits all" approach and it will never work. All that does is guarantee they will not get re-elected. A guaranteed conservative approach is to take note of the names of the Food Nazis and never vote for them under any circumstances.

I have your solution. Close all grocery outlets and restaurants. Establish government food service centers in all communities and require that all subjects ID themselves at each meal so they can´t sneak back for seconds. However, water will be plentiful for all subjects between meals. Think of Soviet gulags and you´ll get the idea.

I´ve been to Britain several times - - and they can certainly use some fat reduction.

Most men and women there are gross!

There will soon be nowhere to go on Earth that we will be free of some government committee.

I still cannot believe that the U.S. has gone down this road so quickly.

I agree with #1...we all had our treats growing up that would make today´s food Nazi´s gasp. The butter and sugar was one of our favorites too.

I really don´t think food, junk or othewise, is the root of the problem.

As kids we never sat down. We were thrown out in the morning...maybe came by for lunch but just had to keep in mind to be sure to be in when Dad came home. In my husban´s town they tested the fire dept signal each night at six and all the kids knew that meant dinner.

We were always supervised by that amazing network of Mom´s that stuck together... and by the time we made it home, our´s was well aware of anything we´d done that my Dad might need to address.

Everyone mocks the "Leave it to Beaver" image but that WAS our life. Parents who respected each other, neighbors with the same values, and an innocence, unaware of the things that belong only in a "grown´up´s" world.

#3, I´m at a loss to explain why Britons are becoming fat. As little as 25 years ago our thin British visitors were horrified by the number of fat Americans to be seen in the US. During the war and for many years after there was plenty of lard and other nonvegetarian fat around to put the weight on--you would think. We had drippings spread on bread in place of butter. Most of the limited food available was high-fat, high-starch. America sent mountains of Spam for us to eat--not exactly low-fat.

People did walk more than they do today but they didn´t walk that far in wartime. Go out of your village or area of town where you were known and you were likely to be stopped and questioned as a possible German spy. And people were THIN, Duchess of Cambridge thin. As was I until my late fifties, many decades after the war diet had run its course.

I´m still thinking high-fructose corn syrup plays a significant role in obesity.

Brits are becoming fat because the goobermint hands out lots of goodies so they don´t have to work or even lift a finger for that matter. The same thing is happening here.

This kind of thinking is really no different than thinking gun bans would stop gun violence.

I agree with everybody else about eating junk as a kid and never gaining an ounce and most of us could safely go outside and basically disappear all day without parents fretting about it.

Most of the TV shows had subliminal messaging that helped enhance a value system. The leftists in Hollywood now would never allow that.

But anyway,I think obesity is more of a mental problem than physical one and why banning certain foods won´t do any good.If people are addicted to food they´re going to satisfy that addiction by any means necessary.

I think food engineering is part of the problem also,where food is missing components that tell your brain your stomach is full.

Today´s liberals have plate fulls of problems to fix and they´re in their glory.

Kids are not obese from overeating, kids are obese from sitting around playing video games and watching TV.

Yes, kids ARE obese from overeating, coupled with sitting on their butts playing video games. For the last few decades kids have been taught nothing about self restraint ( if it feels good, do it ) and nothing about personalg responsibility. Where do you see the highest levels of obesity? In families who have been on the dole for several generations where kids absorb the lesson that they need make no effort in life. Those same kids rarely receive any discipline or positive guidance. The adults who surround them, usually moms and aunts, are also obese so, to them, it´s normal.

Forgot to add...if sugar, salt and fat in foods are restricted, those with unhealthy eating habit will simply consume more of everything. Like the restrictions on large sodas in NYC - people will just buy two smaller drinks instead of one large one.

Nothing is going to change until everyone is raised with the values of self restraint and self discipline. The only way to accomplish that is to defeat leftism.