I don't know, are we really faced with real personal choice when supermarkets and major food brands can spend so much on marketing and having influence such as Coke and McDonalds sponsoring worldwide sporting events, and supermarkets being able to price target high volume items with longer shelf...
I am a young 41! You can only go off what experts are telling you at the time. If they're proved to be wrong later, then so be it, however you take a gamble if you live off the mantra of not listening to health professionals on the assumption they might be proved wrong later in history...
Of course it becomes an issue of state when statistics show growing cases of diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure which medical professionals continually attribute to rising cases of obesity. These aren't necessarily quango's or unelected groups, these are necessary investigations in to...
I think once you got him to 17 or so, you can consider your role as 'bringing him up' as nearing completion. Not questioning your role as his dad beyond that, but like you say, from 18 or so he's making his own choices. You got him to 23 slim and fit, you can't blame yourself for what happens...
I went on a primary school trip recently and one girl opened her lunchbox - she had 2 bags of cheesy puff crisps and a lump of cheese! I kid you not that was her lunch for a full day out. Teachers have spare lunches for these situations and back at the school have spare dinners as there are...