Dutch people don’t need a warning to stop them from eating a pound of licorice in a sitting. Wanton excess as a way of life is culturally American.
Did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255339 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469154?
Granted that this isn't the 36% in the United States.
But it doesn't justify your confident claim that Nederlanders never engage in 'wanton consumption'; clearly a fifth of your compatriots take a third stroopwafel when a single serving would suffice.