The cheesburger bill was introduced by a florida congressman named rick keller, who had received the maximum legally allowable campaign contribution from mac donald's. While there are observable trends that people may be getting fatter overtime, many of these scholars would argue, that our response to that thing meets a lot of the criteria for ra panic. To my mind, i think our sort of response to the obiousty epidemic checks a number of those boxes, but not quite all of them.