The US healthcare system is a business. Obesity is very profitable for the healthcare system. Hence such glorification or 'normalization' or obesity?
It's similar to Nursing homes which take all the money out of older people. Instead, these old people could maybe be taken care of by their families so they do not dilapidate all heritage money to nursing homes...
I respect obese people. They are humans like all of us. But glorify them in such Miss events... I am like you Patron... It's a no-go for me.
You are on the right track, but the real profitability at issue is food/restaurant.
It costs a lot of money, and more importantly takes a lot of time, to eat healthy and get enough exercise.
The U.S. has a system where everyone works long hours and the kids get shuffled through a cafeteria quickly, with enough of them on subsidized meals to need to produce low-cost meals.
The fast food drive through are always packed. Some restaurants after Covid said Fuck It and went entirely drive-thru.
Even non-restaurant food is mostly eaten after opening a bag.
The sit-down restaurants are more expensive and they try to justify the higher cost by putting tons of salt and sugar in the food.
It isn‘t a good system.
Yes, the healthcare system makes a profit trying to fix the damage the food system creates. But I begrudge them less than the food system.
It even affects doctors. When one of those healthy TV doctors said all doctors should be fit and healthy, a regular fat doc wrote a thought provoking essay. He said his life wasn’t like the TV doctor’s life. He has rounds at the hospital starting at 6 am, then he saw patients the rest of the day. He got a half hour to eat lunch and dinner, and when he ate at the hospital cafeteria, it was all fattening comfort food because the hospital discovered that is what the outpatients and relatives of patients want, and will pay for, since the hospital is a traumatic experience.