the lack of peer pressure came after >50% of the population was fat
back in the 90's there was no mainstream HAES movement, or concern about "fat shaming" or any of the other Twitter nonsense
back in the 90's there was no mainstream HAES movement, or concern about "fat shaming" or any of the other Twitter nonsense
If you found a 50% increase in lung cancer next to major highways, would your solution be to use peer pressure to encourage everyone to take shallower breaths and then berate people for not succumbing to peer pressure? Of course not because it's obvious to us that the cause is environmental and the correct approach is regulation to reduce the cause of the disease.
Treating obesity as a public health problem rather than a willpower problem is a) obviously a more sane approach and b) contrary to business interests.
I'd also want to add the lack of physical activity as people move to doing God's Work by sitting still and tapping on a keyboard with occasional visits to the gym, but I haven't found a decent study showing that over time.