Is this much food a bad thing?

Is too much food a bad thing? The consumers that consume that product are getting sick. The articles that tell about the food obesity can tell us some of the picture but not all of it. So I had to look at other articles, like how the products we consume are made. The products that are cheap are the ones that are mass produced and have crazy amounts of preservatives/sugars to keep the consumer from coming back. People who have obesity are mostly lead to that life style and that lifestyle involves huge amounts of cheap products like chocolate bars and etc. For example, I recently went to a supermarket and while I was looking around I found a box of ten full size cookies for only 50 cents., so with a five dollar bill a person can buy one hundred cookies. Then I thought would someone who's low on cash buy a salad or buy the cookies. Is the government responsible for fixing this problem or are we, the average consumer, supposed to fix this problem? Whats going to fix this? Money donations to help the unfortunate with food? Programs to help the average consumer on how to save money?