&gt; Manually picking up every food item and reviewing the list of ingredients by hand in the middle of grocery store does not comport with [accomodating the median IQ]<p>I don&#x27;t know how the situation looks in the US, but in Europe, there&#x27;s compulsory, standardized labels listing ingredients on every non-whole item. Whole foods are marked with the country&#x2F;ies where it was produced, treated and packaged.<p>If it&#x27;s considered too much effort to read a clearly laid-out sticker, the problem is definitely with people reaching an extreme kind of intellectual lazyness, which is why I don&#x27;t understand the need to teach nutrition mentioned in other comments. Just read what&#x27;s in the thing, dammit! If somebody doesn&#x27;t understand that sugar has absolutely nothing to do in canned beans, well... I&#x27;m lost for words.<p>This means the actual problem is the complete disfunctionality of our educational systems. As you rightly point out,<p>&gt; Corporate profiteering absolutely plays a massive role in the obesity epidemic.<p>and is easily countered by buying a tad more consciously than &quot;I probably don&#x27;t need this, but I&#x27;ll buy it anyway just in case&quot; or &quot;I like the look of that&quot; or &quot;I&#x27;ve seen this in an ad, must be awesome&quot;, and then proceeding to throwing a quarter of your purchases away. As you might have guessed, I was not raised like that, and it utterly boggles my mind how some people can function that way. Apart from the food, it&#x27;s a massive waste of money!<p>So yeah, the problem is, as always, education, because I don&#x27;t see how foods could be marked any clearer than black-on-white stickers that take ten seconds to scan thouroughly for any unwanted ingredients.