Free market forces will forever create environments that make it easy to gain weight and hard to lose it.

The beauty of the free market is that there are millions of people tirelessly trying to make available the exact goods and services you want.

What you seem to want is: tasty food, cheap food, and convenience. Tasty food usually means fat and sugar. Cheap food means large portions. Convenience means we’ll be even less active in the future.

All these forces combine to help ensure that our environment will always be one in which it is easy to gain weight and hard to lose it.

Is it bad that the free market caters to your every whim? Not at all, but it does mean that the need to control your weight won’t ever end and it will only get harder as time goes on.