Rather than being surprised by destructive social phenomena, thinking they're "bizarre", we must turn the lens and ask, "How is this exactly as intended?"
All along we've been misled, "How depressing that these things spontaneously emerge." But the answer lies in asking, "Who has been promoting these phenomena, and why?"
The answer is not short-term greed. It is very long-term power hunger. If you want the entire world to submit to you, the first thing you require is that people let go of their personal power, and voluntarily give it away.
This requires "educating" people that health is not a mindset and a lifestyle (from the inside), it must come from pills and injections without which you are helpless (from the outside).
If you want to set up the population for culling, you might want to convince them there's nothing they can do about getting fat, that vitamins are a scam, that solutions for their weight and health must come from the pharmaceutical industry.
That way, when the time is ripe, they will be obese, vitamin-deficient, and anxious for whatever injections you might provide, as they've been fully persuaded that the solutions to their problems are not in their own grasp.