Yes, obesity is a problem – but a greater one is the food industry and its greed | Letters

Ultra-processed foods are displacing traditional diets, warns Prof Kent Buse . Plus letters from Hugo Harper , Dr Pawan Randev and Patricia Hampton Your editorial on cancers in under-50s ( 8 October ) rightly names food among the culprits.

But the confrontation it calls for should be aimed less at obesity than at what produces it. Obesity is the intermediary; the exposure is a food system engineered for profit. The Lancet’s series on ultra-processed foods showed these products…