Obesity, Public Health and Food Populism.

Summary Obesity is not only a public health issue. Its development questions our food model and, beyond, our food production model. Industrialists are not mistaken, hiding their defense of this production model under the guise of gastronomy and gustatory pleasure. In fact, it is consumers' trade-offs between health and pleasure that ultimately determine the success or failure of food and nutritional health policies. But do they make these choices in a sovereign and fully responsible manner? To this question, which is central to the construction of a coherent food policy, Fabrice Étilé answers in the negative. It is the environment and the food supply that must be changed, and behaviors will follow. With this in mind, he proposes a series of courses of action combining labeling, taxation, regulation of the food environment and reform of the agri-food sector.