GRITtv: Marjorie Ingall: Fat Shaming Won't Fix Food System

In 2005, Surgeon General Richard Carmona called obesity “the terror within,” and said “Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9-11.” But public policy changes would be pointless, because “common-sense health decisions” can’t legislated. Excuse me? First of all, my thighs are a bigger threat to this country than people who fly planes into skyscrapers? Marjorie Ingall is a columnist for Tablet magazine and co-author of Hungry, with Crystal Renn Distributed by Tubemogul.