Spain did. Though only when Franco died of heart failure

If they’d rather die then they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population!

I think partially its because evolutionarily speaking, high calorie foods like sugar and fats were rarer and useful. So the brain is like, ‘yes i need this to live, find more’

But now we live in a society that has all these resources and can exploit this, and we have to actively stop ourselves from over-indulging.

Ive heard - take it with a pinch of salt cos it might be bollocks - that thats why even as recently as a few centuries ago the western beauty standard was… plumper/chubbier. It signified wealth and prosperity, and i guess the ability to survive a lean winter

Yup! And all we get for it is healthcare, childcare, college tuition, pensions, sick leave, maternity leave…