Your statement that our society posesses a "fatalistic acceptance" of obesity puzzles and shocks me. Society's most commonly held view of people who are overweight is that they are immoral. People who are overweight may be told many times that a simple solution to their problem exists, many people have made fortunes off them (including medical, pharmaceutical, surgical, and dietetical professionals), but am I wrong in my non-professional belief that the great majority of people who lose weight on "diets" gain all of it back or more? I know, you teach them that they must adopt a whole new lifestyle, etc, etc. But do you move stores that sell produce into poor urban neighborhoods? Do you take advertisements off their little friend's TV shows when they visit? I know obesity is killing us--the poor faster than the rest of you. Dieticians, in my experience, have been the most unrealistic professionals I have ever dealt with. More safe play outside for children!