Is it true that Massachusetts outlawed "bake sales" to prevent obesity? Cupcakes anyone? I am not giving up my nightly Ice cream for the cause. You cannot outlaw everything to make people stop eating. It will not work. those 400 pound fatties will continue to ride around Wall Mart in their overburdened motorized carts shopping in the dandy aisles.

The culprit is largely high-fructose corn syrup and other refined sweeteners. The sugar lobby is huge. Junk food has a really, really long shelf life - the math is obvious - shelf life determines profits. Just as I and the "health food" folks have been saying for decades - cut back on the sugars. I have given them up entirely, which I know seems extreme, but if I eat them, my sleep is messed up.

One of the reasons that researchers are finding such high numbers of over-weight and obese persons is because people want to be politically correct.We now see 'fat beauty contests,'fat people promoting that 'fat is beautiful.' Fat people twist the message of 'unhealthy' body to a personalized message that they are being discriminated against - because they are fat! Fat people are the first to scream 'discrimination' with claims that 'beauty is only skin deep' and they are really nice people. O.K. no one calling them 'not nice.' Fat people will not admit they are eating too much and they are costing the rest of us more health care dollars. Bottom line - gross body fat is not attractive.

Adressing the obesity crisis is not about telling people to give up their nightly ice cream.These caricatures of food police are being used to discredit attempts to adress the problem.

Please view crowd scenes in documentary films that cover the past 10, yes 10, decades. The documentaries at the end of both World Wars, the Roaring Twenties, World Series victories in cities across America, protest marches and victory parades for many events and soldiers being welcomed back from overseas, etc. Guess what? They all fit into those seats at Fenway Park ( and corresponding baseball parks around America ), at The Colonial Theatre, et al, on airplanes...yadda, yadda, yadda. These people are our DNA. The nation is heavier because its citizens are overeating compared to past generations. I'm old enough to remember regular sized muffins, bagels, pastries and beverages. Regular size portions for adults and more importantly for kids were the norm. It's simple! You supersize your meal, you supersize your waist ( and other body areas ). I hear people complain that the government is not going to tell them what to eat yet they let the food industry run roughshod over their diets. Sugar is added to foods that don't need it. You can make a gallon of your own spaghetti sauce from scratch ( note my ID name ) and have tremendously less sugar than in one commercial jar of sauce with the lowest total amount of sugar. And this is just one of so many examples anyone of us could illustrate. Pogo was right, "We have met the enemy and he is us." Everyone under 50, Google Pogo.