>It’s not obvious because there are also tons of other variables that affect whether or not a person gets fat. We could spend all day talking about them.

But there's no correlation to free healthcare and obesity so your initial point is still wrong.

>I disagree, government nutritional recommendations are another reason western society is weak and fat. And if they can’t accomplish their goal of getting people to eat healthier and it becomes too expensive, then they just cut funding to the “universal” healthcare system so a lot of people don’t get the treatment they need.

You say you disagree but what follows has nothing to do with my point. Every year we have a push for healthy eating in the uk. I will admit that funding is slowly drying up for the nhs but that has far more to do with companies lobbying for an american based healthcare system.

>What’s wrong with a for-profit healthcare system continuously researching and developing ways to treat complications from obesity?

In my experience that isn't what actually happens though. In for profit healthcare, solving problems isn't profitable and therefore rarely happens. It's much better to mislead the consumer and give short term solutions.

Edit- I realised I misread your last point. The problem with only treating the complications of an issue is that it doesn't stop the issue. Keeping people obese so they can charge them for the complications is exactly the reason your entire argument is invalid. For profit healthcare does not promote a healthier lifestyle or limit obesity.