Why America's Obesity Campaign Continues To Fail

In a recent Newsweek article, Gary Taubes wrote,

"...the very first childhood-obesity clinic in the United States was founded in the late 1930s at Columbia University by a young German physician, Hilde Bruch. As Bruch later told it, her inspiration was simple: she arrived in New York in 1934 and was "startled" by the number of fat kids she saw - 'really fat ones, not only in clinics, but on the streets and subways, and in schools.' "

"What makes Bruch's story relevant to the obesity problem today is that this was New York in the worst year of the Great Depression, an era of bread lines and soup kitchens, when 6 in 10 Americans were living in poverty. 

The conventional wisdom these days - promoted by government, obesity researchers, physicians, and probably your personal trainer as well - is that we get fat because we have too much to eat and not enough reasons to be physically active. 

But then why were the PC- and Big Mac-deprived Depression-era kids fat? 

How can we blame the obesity epidemic on gluttony and sloth if we easily find epidemics of obesity throughout the past century in populations that barely had food to survive and had to work hard to earn it?"

The question remains, why are so many people in America overweight? 

Why does the campaign to halt obesity in America continue to fail?

How come government cannot solve this health problem? 

Is the government and other health advocate groups ignorant? 

Or do they have an agenda?

Finally, do you think obesity might have anything to do with insulin and the insulin response?