World Wide Obesity Epidemic

I have witheld judgement as to the state of the public girth in the Philippines, and I can now say with certainty that among people with access to fast food and the income to buy it regularly, Filipino waist lines are definitely expanding.  It isn't evident in the clothes readily available for sale in department stores, but I am seeing more and more large people.  Not as bad as Omaha, Nebraska or Council Bluffs, Iowa with their ready access to Golden Corral and the casino all you can eat troughs, but there are enough large people here that the Paranaque Doctor's Hospital recently hosted a community forum on obesity, so I'm not the only one who is noticing the trend.  I think if KFC could limit people to the half ounce of gravy that is their nutritional bench mark "serving" (and all the other fast food places do the same thing with their fattening add ons) it might be possible to slow the expansion of girth.  However, people, being people, demand the "Gravy Pump" and the corporations make their employees sell "up sizing" so it is practically impossible for good health and weight maintenance to exist in the same universe with fast food stores.  I stoically refuse to upsize, but yesterday, the standard issue iced tea was 12 ounces.  Taking the ice into consideration, that gives you about 8 drinkable ounces.  I do wish I had upsized the drink.  I ended up buying a 250ml bottle of water for 25p to get the dehydration factor under control.  I was seriously irritated when the water bottle was only 250ml.  500ml is really what I'd call an "adult serving" of water.