Obesity: "Leaving aside the question whether people should be held responsible for their own overconsumption..."

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/mcdonalds-frito-lay-blame-worldwide-obesity

McDonald's, Frito-Lay to blame for worldwide obesity?

Jason Overdorf | GlobalPost.com | Nov 23, 2012

"As GlobalPost's compelling "The World Is Fat" series makes clear, for the first time in history more people are obese than hungry across the world.  But are western multinationals like 7-Eleven, McDonald's, PepsiCo and Frito-Lay really to blame?

Leaving aside the question whether people should be held responsible for their own overconsumption, consider the prevalence of unhealthy indigenous foods, the increasingly sedentary lifestyles associated with the shift from agriculture and manual labor to IT services and marketing jobs, and the vast importance of increasing incomes and longer working hours in making people fat."