Well sounds like some may need to stop taking every food marketing scheme as concrete fact that everything they say buy you should buy and eat. Gotta make good personal choices. And if a person dont, there is no one to blame but themselves, regardless of how convincing the tv is.
Of course getting fat is easy. all you have to do is sit and do nothing but eat. But the fatter you get, the more difficult it is to get rid of it is very true. But it wont get any easier if they just continue to sit around doing nothing while still eating everything in sight because the tv said to or chasing every diet scheme that they come across. It's pretty simple. What ever energy you put into your body, it has to go somewhere. Either it is used, or stored. If you eat more than you use, you gain weight. If you eat less than you use you lose weight. Pretty simple in that regards and every body metabolism is difference and thus how many calories they burn baseline, aka, sitting doing nothing is also different. Some people can sit around and eat just about everything on the planet and moon and not gain a pound (of course depending on what they are eating, they still can suffer from high blood pressure and clogged arteries even while remaining thin. On the other hand, some people have the metabolism of a Koala but lie to themselves thinking they have the metabolism of a rat and thus eat like someone with a high metabolism and wonder why they get fat.
I'm not in the mood to make this political or to let what I said slide into some topic where we all gather around and do some fat shaming.
I'll just say that the amount of calories needed to lose weight is way less than the amount of calories needed to keep a healthy weight, and the inverse is true for exercise. It's not necessarily possible for somebody that is overweight to only eat or do the exercise that somebody healthy does to maintain their healthy weight. They have to do more than that, they have to eat even less in calories and do even more exercise.
It's not just a matter of subtracting what their calorie intake is to even them out with what a healthy person eats. They'll maintain their fat level, or in some cases continue to gain weight. A person's entire metabolism changes when they become fat to help them stay fat. That's not to mention the difficulty that it can be for somebody who's truly obese to actually do exercise. It could become unhealthy for them to do things that healthy people can do, like run, because their fat could strain their joints or permanently mess up their back or knees or whatever. They could be come physically incapable of doing other things.
It's easy to just shame people. And yes, in a lot of cases it might be their fault in the sense that nobody came by and fires a Twinkie cannon into their mouth. I'm not debating that. But none of that really helps solve the problem. That's like having your kid jump off a roof to do a trick and breaking his legs, and telling him to walk it off, because we with our unbroken legs can walk. It's not very helpful advice at this point. Making people feel ashamed doesn't help them get healthy it just makes them stay fat. It helps to defeat them before they even get up to try to do something that their body and their ingrained instincts are already telling them to give up on.
That's why a better solution is to make healthy choices easier. And if cutting out lying on products that trick people who frankly shouldn't be expected to have a PHD in nutrition does that, then great.
Yes, with enough due diligence one can read every fine print on every thing they buy or do, you can read every EULA and TOS to every video game, food product, car, television service and pair of underwear you ever purchase. And yes, in theory you 'should'. But it would become your full time unpaid career, and I suspect that most of you
already got jobs or chores or school to do or kids to take care of or whatever.
So I think it better to expect that food companies don't get away with pretending their processed junk is health food. Because losing weight from obesity is anything but simple.
Then throw in people who are food insecure who can only afford the cheapest bull crap processed hotdogs and medicine and time insecure because scarce jobs would rather pay you almost nothing and put the tab of your food and emergency medical costs on the public dime instead of paying a living wage and expect you to be on call 24/7 with a schedule that fluctuates wildly from week to week, and you have a recipe for a large amount of people who are going to fall into this trap.
Saying it's simple, is again, like saying "Walking's simple!" to somebody with no legs. Yes, I'm sure that with the proper help and therapy and maybe prosthetics it's possible, and I salute the people who manage it, but saying "Just do it" is a gross understatement of what's involved.
I'm pretty sure if it was so simple we wouldn't have like a 33% obesity rate in a country where being fat is something to be ashamed of and we worship skinny people, especially skinny women, where even being slightly overweight is seen as 'unrealistic' for anybody except maybe a villain.
Name a single fat actress in a even remotely heroic position in a movie. Heck, in CoH you couldn't even MAKE a fat woman. Oh, you could get a relatively fat man with the Huge skeleton, but fat women? Heck no. You could set the sliders to max and get an olympian ripped woman with giant breasts, but fat was out of the question.