Holy crap, is this it, is this a real sensible reddit comment around obesity and sugar that got upvoted???

Jokes aside, it's maddening just how devastatingly unhealthy the current food market here in the US is. The degree of regulatory failure in containing the literal dump truck loads of sugar in our food combined with near blatant false advertising around products is almost incomprehensible at the moment.

'Poor people' foods are loaded with salt and sugar to addict them, poor work life balance has left many families reliant on fast food / ready to prep meals, 'snack bars / energy bars' are being sold as healthy alternatives but with almost identical composition to candy bars, nutrition labels are being hidden in hard to reach spots, pizza sauce is being touted as a vegetable in schools, and so so so much more.

This is an absolutely mass systemic failing from regulatory bodies that allow food companies keep operating in these manners while blaming individuals. So much of my time at grocery stores now is wasted having to fact-check that supposedly healthy labeled product being advertised to me are genuinely healthy to consume.

The whole system is downright broken and I can't believe it keeps getting overlooked whenever the topic of obesity comes. This is not just the problem of someones overindulgence in food, this is an industry wide failure akin to the tobacco industries arguing why smoking can't cause cancer.