> not white-knuckling a diet and exercise regimen individually

Obesity rates have not been constant. There are clearly multiple modes to this problem and history suggests that this class of people is the minority of the visible issue.

> more bike lanes and subsidies for bikes

You don't need this so much as you need roundabouts and actual _human_ scale infrastructure in cities. Some smaller towns in the midwest got the memo from Europe and are starting to adapt easily.

> more agricultural subsidies for healthy food and less for corn

I think the amount of subsidy overall is a problem. I think we could to take another page from Europe and start banning food additives. We can stop classifying highly processed foods as foods and instead as desserts and tax them appropriately. A lot of this is already in motion.

> Realistically we aren't going to get those things.

We used to have these things. I don't understand your position of social excuse couched in social pessimism. So instead of addressing the problem just accept that pharmaceutical and insurance companies will now enrich themselves off this created problem?

You know, we can solve _two_ problems at once, if GLP-1 has some short term benefit then great, but to plan on it existing in the long term for weight management is utter madness.