The growing trend of obesity would mean that that condition should be a public health issue, because it cause a lot of health problems to the population. The WHO had said that obesity causes hearth illnesses, being a high percentage of the annual death ratio in the world. So, the State must put all the effort in create health programs with the purpose of decrease this trend. Also, these programs must be focused in the people with least resources.
But the obesity is just a symptom of the real problem: the sedentary lifestyle. The science community are saying that the sedentary lifestyle is the principal reason of deaths in the planet, higher that HIV or cancer. To attack this problem, the labor law must ensure to the work mass time for resting and do exercises, because the major issue to the workers are the high mental and physical fatigue, which keep them from having an active lifestyle. Also, the importance to attack the sedentary lifestyle before attack the obesity would help to stop the fat phobia, understanding that the problem is not being fat but the unhealthy lifestyle.