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This is more than just children, the food environment adults are subject to encourages unhealthy habits too. Locking kitkats up won't change a thing.

Just look at American portion sizes at any restaurant -- they're huge! The common mantra is that we want to ensure we get our money's worth. I was astounded on my trips to France. The dinners were still filling, but were much smaller than most American restaurants I've dealt with on the East Coast, Southeast, and Midwest.

Plus we put sugar/HFCS in literally everything. If you wanted to save a few calories and eat a ham sandwich at home, the basic loaf of white bread you're yanking off the shelf has HFCS, and for what?

This isn't even getting to the usual punching bag of fast food/fast casual, where you're easily set back 1000-1500kcals on the default menu selection.