RogerM wrote:
> Obesity has nothing to do with health care. Is a doctor's job to serve
> as a personal trainer?

Obesity has everything to do with health care. A nation has to look at the
total amount spent on healthcare in relation to GDP. Whether private or
public, it is the total cost that matters to a nation.

The more people are overweight and couch potatoes, the more people will
require costly heart related health care, as well as hypertension, clogged
arteries etc.

Smokers also cost more to a health system.

So if a nation lives on unhealthy fast food that makes them significantly
fatter that other cultures, it will endup requiring more health care.